Barn find corn picker back to work

Destroked 450 · Oct 20, 2016

Heard about an old Ford 601 picker setting in a barn back in the spring

This is what we found after clearing the brush and cutting down a tree in front of the door.
They said it had been setting in the barn for over thirty years.

Mounted it on the 4000SU in order to haul it home

Mounted it on the 4000 this week, some used oil, a little grease, replaced the cross conveyor belt and it's ready to go to the field. Also took a few minutes to wash thirty years of dust off.
Gravity bed is on a Oliver running gear

Another load picked ready to take to the shed with the SU.
Other than some plugging issues with the snap rolls it's doing a good job. Today's rain may put some moisture back in the stalks to help with the plugging issue, if no I'll swap in the rubber roll and take the aggressive quartz roll out.

jeffcat · Oct 20, 2016

Now I know that you can puff out your chest with pride. Well done!

mtf · Oct 20, 2016

That looks like an old KY tobacco barn. Nice find.

gtractorfan · Oct 20, 2016

So good it was under roof all those years. Also good that this is one mounted picker that works with 30" rows. Looks like fun.

Destroked 450 · Oct 20, 2016

Yea this is like the one dad bought new in 64, he had me running it in 65 when I was 10 on a Fordson Dexta while the older boys where shoveling corn off the flat bed wagons we used back then.
We still have dads for parts and this one is replacing my old one that's getting in rough shape.
I've always enjoyed running these old pickers, matter of fact their the only pickers I've ever run.

Adirondack case guy · Oct 20, 2016

Nice find and save.
Loren

fixerupper · Oct 20, 2016

One in a million find. Good job.

Philip d · Oct 20, 2016

isn't that something! awesome job!!!

Alan K · Oct 20, 2016

Awesome find. Nice getting it mounted so fast.

Indiana Ken · Oct 20, 2016

Nice, looks to be in good shape.

Question, in the picture there is a large pulley above and to the left of the PTO driven pulley. In addition there is another smaller pulley under the fan. My picker does not have these pulleys....what are they used for or are they used for other crops?

ditchwitch · Oct 20, 2016

Thats a great find. It sitting for 30 years and just a little TLC and a bath and its ready for work . I would say
that was a better than great find.

SweetFeet · Oct 20, 2016

Nice rescue. Love the pic of it trapped in the old barn.

casecollectorsc · Oct 20, 2016

Nice find! Don't think I have seen one like that before.

larry@stinescorner · Oct 20, 2016

great post!!!!

Destroked 450 · Oct 20, 2016

(quoted from post at 17:37:59 10/20/16)
Nice, looks to be in good shape.

Question, in the picture there is a large pulley above and to the left of the PTO driven pulley. In addition there is another smaller pulley under the fan. My picker does not have these pulleys....what are they used for or are they used for other crops?

Yours must have the husking bed that's driven differently, The large pulley drives the cross conveyor and the smaller pulley is the belt tensioner.
In the photo you'll see a pulley with a crossed v belt the drives the blower fan, behind it is the main drive pulley, Behind the main drive pulley is a small pulley you can't see that uses a crossed v belt going over to the large pulley and under the tensioner, that's the belt I have to replace. The large pulley also drives a chain sprocket on the back side the goes down to the elevator drive.
I've got another picker with a husking bed but the bottom of the elevator is rusted out so all the lose corn that falls thru the husking rolls runs out on the ground.

JimIA · Oct 21, 2016

Love it! Thanks for posting. Job well done.

Jim

1206SWMO · Oct 21, 2016

Very nice..

Indiana Ken · Oct 23, 2016

Destroked 450, I have attached a picture of my parts picker, my working picker is harder to get to, showing the drive system. Note, the two paddles driven by the chain to push the corn along the husking bed. The husking bed rollers are driven by a short chain, not shown, between the PTO input pulley and the drive pulley for the fan. Interesting, I did not know there was another version of the picker.

Ken

Destroked 450 · Oct 23, 2016

(quoted from post at 18:11:29 10/23/16)
Destroked 450, I have attached a picture of my parts picker, my working picker is harder to get to, showing the drive system. Note, the two paddles driven by the chain to push the corn along the husking bed. The husking bed rollers are driven by a short chain, not shown, between the PTO input pulley and the drive pulley for the fan. Interesting, I did not know there was another version of the picker.

Ken

Yea my old picker has that husking bed setup.
601's with husking beds where called corn pickers
601's with cross conveyors where called corn harvesters
Never understood the reasoning for the different names, they both pick corn. :?
Guess I should have titled it: Barn find corn harvester back to work. :lol:

Destroked 450 · Oct 26, 2016

Finishing up the last roll of corn for the year, picker did a good job with the only issues being it tossed the elevator chain yesterday, taking a link out gave the adjustment need to fix it and the elevator decoupler needs a couple of shims added behind the rear bushing, sometimes it didn't shut off at the end of the field
Having a charging issue with the 4000SU, it wouldn't start this morning so the 801 got some more exercise pulling a couple loads of corn to the shed, no need in it setting around looking pretty all the time.

A view of the neighborhood across the road from the corn field, sure is getting populated over there, a dozen new houses built in the last ten years.

Took the pic about fifty yards down the road from my house so I have to look at is view every day.
Don't yall feel sorry for me, all those neighbors dotting up the country side.

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