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JD 300 picker alterations?

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Canadian Ken

10-22-2004 20:40:04




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We owned a NI 323 1 row from new. We used it for 15 years. It always did a great job of husking, probably because of those "bear claws" mounted in the steel rolls. The only problem we had with it was that in Funks corn, the stalks would try to wrap on the snapping rolls up underneath until the slip clutch would go. Then you would spend 30 minutes digging out the stalks and leaves from underneath. It was also very slow- 1 row at a time. We traded it in 1991 for a JD 300 with 244 head. I altered the head down to 32" rows. It does a great job of snapping off the ears. Two big things I would change 1. take the auger out of the head and have a New Idea style conveyor. The auger does it's fair share of shelling areas off of the cobs, sometimes right out of the middle.
2. replace the husking rolls with NI rolls. The roll pins through the steel rolls just don't do a good job.
I have not taken a length measurement off of the rolls to see if a NI roll might fit in a JD picker. It would make a fantastic machine. I have seen a New Idea picker/sheller that a farmer fitted a JD 243 head onto it. It actually looked pretty good.
Ken

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Tim(nj)

10-23-2004 14:36:13




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 Re: JD 300 picker alterations? in reply to Canadian Ken, 10-22-2004 20:40:04  
I"ve been thinking along the lines of taking a 243 2-rn corn head (this size was made for the 300 picker and for PT choppers to make high-moisture ear corn silage) and putting it onto a NI 325 gathering unit frame that has a 327 12-roll husker attached. I doubt I"d ever get the time to do it, though, just one of those dream projects.



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