NI 324 corn picker

JWalker · Oct 6, 2016

I have a 324 two row picker. I do not have a book for it. I am harvesting dry (14%) corn. I am loosing a lot of corn from it shelling. You can see it falling from the husking rolls while sitting in the seat harvesting. Is there any way to adjust this to cut down on my corn lose?

Thanks

tomstractorsandtoys · Oct 6, 2016

That is the problem with all New Idea pickers. They should have a decal saying picker-sheller. Todays corn hybrids are almost all made to be harvested with a combine. We went to a Deere 300 because it uses a combine head with deck plates which greatly reduces shelling. Tom

unclemerle · Oct 6, 2016

Sad to say no. That is one of the reasons the New Idea pickers in our area were scrapped out.

rrlund · Oct 6, 2016

Husking rolls or snapping rolls? If it's the husking rolls,your corn saver chain that takes the husks out should be pushing the shelled corn in to the elevator so it goes in the wagon.
There are adjusters on those too though. They'll be square knobs that stick out of the back of the husking bed. They're threaded rods that move the rolls in and out.
As far as the snapping rolls,there is a lever on each side that adjusts the snapping rolls in and out.

MPK · Oct 6, 2016

(quoted from post at 15:49:57 10/06/16) I have a 324 two row picker. I do not have a book for it. I am harvesting dry (14%) corn. I am loosing a lot of corn from it shelling. You can see it falling from the husking rolls while sitting in the seat harvesting. Is there any way to adjust this to cut down on my corn lose?

Thanks

t,s most likely the snapping rolls. About all you can do is close the snapping rolls as close as possible.

mazemeister · Oct 6, 2016

you can order a book for both the 324 gathering unit and the 326 or 327 husking bed through agco. i don't see any adjustments that would affect shelling. usually it is more of a problem at the snapping rolls than the husking rolls. either way, the solution is probably to pick it at higher moisture next year.

casecollectorsc · Oct 6, 2016

That's why we called them a pheasant feeder.....

JWalker · Oct 6, 2016

I have misspoken. It is the snapping rollers not the husking rollers.

gtractorfan · Oct 6, 2016

I've wondered if pickers like this couldn't be fitted with plates similar to combines so the ears wouldn't contact the snapping rolls.

farmerwithmutt · Oct 6, 2016

I think there are varieties of corn that is made for picking. How much falls off when dropping in the crib? Last year I picked corn it shelled real bad dropping in the crib . Time of day also affects how bad it shells to.

Lazy WP · Oct 6, 2016

Pick early in the morning, when there is more moisture. That is why most of us have gotten away from the pickers, also why we always use to try to pick just as soon as we thought it would store.

paul · Oct 6, 2016

Newer JD pickers didn't she'll as bad, but they were weaker on husking.

New Idea had better hunkers, but they she'll pretty bad in dry corn. Really need to be picking at 19-17% moisture.

Not too much you can do at this point.

Come here, corn is 20% moisture, raining again the ground is well past saturated, lots and lots of moisture all around!

Paul

flying belgian · Oct 6, 2016

There is nothing you can do. We had one. Worst picker in the world If it's any consolation, there is some fertilizer value to that shelled corn in field for next years crop. Saw a chart once. It's more then you think. Maybe you're county agent has those numbers.

brutus49DC · Oct 6, 2016

Worst picker? Evidently you haven't been around an IH or Oliver corn butcher. Oliver tried stripper plates. Most got converted back to snapping rolls. They picked too dirty.

Joneil · Oct 6, 2016

I always found our new idea picker to be better than the jd 55 combine. The picker wouldn't shell ears that the combine crushed.

I would try reducing pto speed. And don't lower the picker any more than necesary.

Alan K · Oct 6, 2016

A friend of mine mentioned that as well about certain varieties of corn that will shell easier.

mijohn · Oct 6, 2016

If they were the worst, then I guess they were the best because they were the last made. They out lasted john deere #18, they outlasted IH, MM which were possibly the best at their time. and massy Ferguson sold MM one row pickers painted massy red with their own name on it. Ford which surprised me won picking competitions in the mid sixties with their mounted pickers, and they, I think were the only ones to build a one row mounted Sheller unit. And like someone else said, Oliver was no contest. allis Chalmers were an inexpensive picker but left a lot of husks on the ears because of only a double role husking bed. When I was a kid we had a co-op picker with a swarts husking bed but left a few husks on. I traded it for new idea 6a two row when I was a freshmen in high school which husked better and was a two row. Their were more out their but those were the ones I knew of.

rrlund · Oct 7, 2016

I grow some Masters Choice that's better for picking than a lot of hybrids. It might help that I go like a bat out of a hot spot and knock the ears off before they have a chance to shell.

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