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15ishaffer

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My grandfather has a New Idea mounted picker he'd like to sell, there has been one in the local paper here for about a year listed at 800 and no one has bought it so I thought I'd try online for this one, its in good shape and the only reason he wants to sell it is because we just don't have a use for it other than opening fields and the tractor it's on gives us trouble from sitting all year, he insists on scrapping it but I won't give in to that yet, you just don't see many around and like I said it's in good shape so I just can't stand for that!
 
Patience will be a virtue when it comes to selling that picker. There is a buyer out there somewhere but it may take some time to find that person. It seems that most of the demand is for pickers of the same brand as the tractor it is going on. Also, there are not many younger people that have an interest in corn pickers. I am over age 50 and with all the people I know I do not know of anybody personally besides myself that have an interest in corn pickers. If your grandfather has taken calls on it and has been told that it is priced too high then he should consider coming down a few hundred dollars. I understand the notion of scrapping it and not dealing with a PIA buyer but I hate to see old equipment go that way. Once it is gone that is it. I wish some pieces we had here were not scrapped but I was not making the decisions when that was happening.
 
$800 is pretty high for a mounted picker, and scrap prices have dropped ($50 per ton?). It also makes a difference what model tractor(s) it will mount on. Try advertising it for $200 to sell it for maybe $100.
 
That picker is set for 38" rows? Most corn is planted in 30" rows today so that narrows the market but you never know.
 
It is 38 inch rows, we have it on an Oliver 1600, most of the farms around here are on 30 inch rows, that really does narrow the market
 
Thankfully he takes my opinion into account about scrapping things, it might be the easy way to get rid of it but like was said, once it's gone, it's gone, I'd much rather see someone want it for what it is, I think he would be willing to let it for for a few hundred but no one has even asked, we talked about taking it to an auction but we aren't sure how to get it there and don't want to spend more transporting it than we get out of it. I'll just keep talking him into letting it in the shed a little longer until we get someone to bite
 
You might want to tell us where you're located. I might be interested in it if it were close to me and the price were right.
 
(quoted from post at 20:45:19 08/12/17) It is 38 inch rows, we have it on an Oliver 1600, most of the farms around here are on 30 inch rows, that really does narrow the market
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Olivers and New Idea pickers DO go together. Maybe you should consider selling the tractor and picker as a unit?
 
I do not know models but I do know the later pickers were fully mounted and earlier models had the husking bed carried on a set of caster wheels. Might help if you could tell us the model, early style or late style. Years ago neighbors both since passed on one had earlier style mounted on Massey 44, other one had on a Farmall 450 then Massey 180. And for the person that wondered about row width all mounted pickers were made for 38 to 42" rows with some that you could get by with 36" rows but not all and that is due to width of tractor, you could not have a tractor with a narrow front that is narrow enough to build a picker that could work on 30" rows.
 
(quoted from post at 04:48:13 08/13/17) You might want to tell us where you're located. I might be interested in it if it were close to me and the price were right.
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Looks like you are about 6 hours away
 

Not sure of the exact model but it does not have the castor wheels so it is a later model, the husking unit says 322, we also have a sheller unit for it.
 
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