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rrlund

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OK,so it's G day. How about a Good day picking corn. That's the 1850 on the 325 picker. The 2-135 and the 66 hauling.
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rrlund,
How large are your cribs? It is not to often that you see ear picking anymore. My husband filled 3 cribs each year, up until we rented the land out (about 7 years ago). Hard work when shelling time comes.
 
Good to see those Olivers and the White are earning their keep still. I would love to have a setup like yours for picking corn. Did you decide the White was too much for the picker?
 
Naw,I had to come home to unload anyway. By the time I got done eating supper it was raining. Doesn't hurt my feelings a bit. The corn was so dry Monday and Tuesday,that it was breaking off and laying down in the bottom of the primary elevator between the snapping rolls. I was having to crawl along in second gear. Had to keep stopping even then to let it clean out. There was some mist yesterday and a good rain this morning. It picked like a dream with those stalks toughened up. I ran right along in third. The corn went right through it like a mother in laws tongue through her son in law's business.
 
Ya,that old gal likes her fuel. Good road speed though. It was such a nice day,I was working in a T-shirt.
 
I've got 3 one thousand crate round cribs,they're all full already,then there's a 6x60x12 long crib and a 6x40x10.
 
Id love to come work there for free running one of those tractors on the grain carts! I really like your setup.
 
Want me to send you a bus ticket? I'm getting tired. I spent two weeks filling silo chopping with the White,hauling with the 1850 and pushing and packing with the 1600. Now I've been all week picking alone and have at least another week to go.
 
Looking good. Nice tractors. Not picking corn down here by me yet,..(South of G.R.) They have been chopping for silage though. Like those Olivers.
 
Nice pics. Third is the gear Jeff was able to pick in with his 1850 and 325 too. What yeild are you getting?
 
I couldn't even tell you. I've filled three one thousand crate cribs,pretty much one a day working alone. I've had worse corn,but it's not as good as it could have been with more rain. The ears are filled out OK,but kinda small.
 
Heck I'd take you up on the airplane ticket! I love the Olivers and the Whites have grown on me the past few years. If only I had the money to buy more and the land to use them.
 
It's a matter of acres a day. I've been getting about 7 loads a day. That's even slower than when I was chopping. I was getting about 9 a day then. Those 7 loads will fill a 1000 crate crib from those big wagons.
 
I've got 7 Ollies and the White. Most of them get used almost daily. I'd been hauling with the 1550 too,but the spring broke in the starter bendix yesterday,so I got the 66 out. That's fine with me,takes me back. Dad picked with a 66 and a Woods Brothers one row for years. You'd have thought somebody would have gotten a picture or two of that set up somewhere along the way.
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Do you get a lot of shelling? What moisture do you try to pick at? Are there any hybrids still available made for picking? It seems that the corn I grow shells very easily, even when its wet. I've been thinking about growing some at home to pick next year. Thanks,
Josh
 
It's picking about the cleanest without shelling this year as it ever has. I don't know what the moisture is,but I picked a load Monday and ground it and it was dusty. It's popping right out of the husk right on the stalk.

It's Fielders Choice,couldn't tell you the variety,but they were still breeding some for picking. Trouble is,they've gone out of business,but there's another company taking over. Sounds like the same thing,just a different name,but I haven't talked to anybody there yet.
 
Somehow seems early to be at the picking in a serious way. We were always into potatoes in Mid October, corn came later, sometimes much later. About all the corn I've seen harvested around here is seed corn, and I think they pick it early, dry it under controlled conditions back at the factory. Was in Indiana last week, passed a huge warehouse with outside lined with fans. Think it was a seed corn drying facility.
 
This is the earliest I've ever started cribbing,but it's powder dry. Not gonna gain any yield standing there. Get any big wind and it'll go the other way in a hurry.
 
I have an old Oliver two row picker in the fence. Used it last spring to clean up some food plots. Need it?
 
I would have been a kid in a candy store hauling grain with an 1850. Can't wait to have one of my own some day.
 
You would think so, would have been a great picture. I once found a Wood Brothers picker in great shape right after high school. Was such a good deal I bought it. I wasn't using it and didn't have room for it so eventually I had to let it go down the road. Kick myself for that and selling the 1650 I had as well.
 
Been doing the same thing. First year picking for high moisture cob corn and you right its loads per day. Got 9 done today. Were at about 30% moisture so its perfect to grind and send up the silo.might be my only year doing it need to find a snapper head for the chopper and a rcutter screen. Figure it will take a hundred loads to fill 16x60 and am 40 into it
 
Great pictures! I like seeing the new and older equipment both. I saw a potato picker that took up the whole road a few days ago. I don't remember Dad having a corn picker--we moved to town when I was seven. He said he shocked the corn and had a treasher come in.

Larry
 
7 loads in one day, picking, unloading is a day's work no matter how ya look at it & that
is only with easy going & no Break downs.. We
have 48 acers to do & just picked up our 1st
2 row narrow picker, this should save us time.
I KNOW for sure one man can't do 7 loads in one day with a single row picker. Maybe in 15 hours
he might get 5 loaded & unloaded?? Maybe? I am hope for good going, last year was a struggle. We have a Nice 323 it's just too slow with only one row.
 
Nice place and equipment. There's a guy southwest of Jackson that has a 3 row picker like that for sale.

Y'all enjoy the weekend!

Anthony
 
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