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RON ALBART

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Can anyone identify the manufacture of this corn picker?
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dad had one like that when I was a kid, his said Dearborn on it. I do not know if it was the same company but looks like it. I bet there are some parts laying around yet for it at the home place.
 
Wood Bros were the orignal manufacture and in 48 Ford gained enough control to put the Dearborn name on it untill I think about 62 when again changed name to Ford
 
Yep, had one like that years ago. Woods Brothers
Put new bronze bushings in it where needed.
Cost me $17 for all the bushings at an old machine shop that used to be in town.
Richard in NW SC
 
Grey fron time of the old Fordson tractors, not sure of first year, 2 different models of grey, then in 48 red same as the 8N red belly tractor with some improvements untill they went wit the blue collor on all machinery, think they made a few blue befor end of production. Version I had was sold for use with the 9N-2N tractors and I got it for display with my 44 2N. Did pick a few loads with it untill the trash chain under husking rolls broke and wiped things out.
 
I think the gray ones sold by Ford were Bell City weren't they? I never saw a gray Wood Brothers.
 
I always have to laugh when I get to thinking about one of those too much. Dad bought one at the sale in Archbold one time and started pulling it home. They didn't have automotive type wheel bearings. He kept stopping to grease them but they were still getting hot so he parked it in a yard just south of Hudson Michigan.

He took Uncle Claude's 46 Chevy ton and a half back to get it. The old guy who owned the place used his F12 to back it on the truck from the ditch bank.

My two older brothers were with him. They were headed home and my next older brother was playing with a pair of pliers and pinching his pants by his zipper. He took another bite with them and the oldest brother reached over and grabbed them and pinched down. He had more than just his pants in them that time. LOL
 
Dad said he always knew the corn was dry enough to crib when it would make the turn and slide down from the husking bed to the elevator. It exited the husking bed at the front and had to make a ninety degree turn to get to the elevator paddles.
 
Grandpa had a uni system picker,spent so much time standing on the ladder,wiah I had a nickel for every stalk that swished across my back,,I'd gladly pay it tenfold to spend anorher hour there with him.,even if it was shoveling in the first three wagons into the crib ,so the corn didn't smash into the floor from the elevator,not as funny as the pliers,but still from the memory banks,
Clint
 
(quoted from post at 09:29:09 11/20/19) I think the gray ones sold by Ford were Bell City weren't they? I never saw a gray Wood Brothers.
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This is a picture of mine. Not the best shot, but if you zoom in on it you can see it says "Wood Brothers Thresher Co."

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I had the grey Wood Brothers and Bell City was sold by Ferguson dealers, not Ford dealers. Neighbor had one,
 
OK. The neighbor right to the south of me had a Bell City. It sat in the edge of the woods for a long time down by the line fence. I always thought they pre dated the Wood Brothers and were sold by Ford. Learn something new every day.
 
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