I was wanting some info about Corn Snappers, I had a 323 New Idea picker but it shelled off too much corn, rarely got an ear that was complete. I know snappers will leave the shuck on and that's fine, what is a good brand to look for? Also if you can include the model numbers that would help out a lot. I've never used a snapper but if they will pick the ears and not grind a lot of kernels off, I can't ask for anymore than that.
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Find a JD 300 picker they used the 40 series corn head. They have stripper plates so you do not get the butt shelling like the roll only machines will do.
What your hearing called snapper corn pickers just do not have a husking bed. It still just has snapping rolls. The only older picker that I know of that has stripper plates is the mounted Allis Chalmers pickers that would have been mounted on the "D" series tractors. Neighbor had one on a D-17. It did fine when the fodder was just a little tough. Also some seed corn varieties pick better than others.
What your hearing called snapper corn pickers just do not have a husking bed. It still just has snapping rolls. The only older picker that I know of that has stripper plates is the mounted Allis Chalmers pickers that would have been mounted on the "D" series tractors. Neighbor had one on a D-17. It did fine when the fodder was just a little tough. Also some seed corn varieties pick better than others.
Traditional Farmer
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We used to have an Allis Chalmers pull type 1 row snapper it worked great really just pulled off the whole ear of corn husk and all no grain shattered.Picked into a gravity flow wagon
took it up to the coop and they'd grind it plus we throw in a few bales of hay and minerals made good cow feed.Only pain was getting the corn out of the wagon with the husk on it.We'd unhook the wagon and load the bagged ground corn in the back of the pick up, those days are long gone.
took it up to the coop and they'd grind it plus we throw in a few bales of hay and minerals made good cow feed.Only pain was getting the corn out of the wagon with the husk on it.We'd unhook the wagon and load the bagged ground corn in the back of the pick up, those days are long gone.
jon f mn
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I think some of the IH pickers have stripper plates. The problem with stripper plate pickers is they are much slower, which is why they were less popular. If you do a test you will find that even tho the loss looks like a lot it adds up to less than a bushel to the acre in most cases. Today's corn hybrids shell more and most also pic corn drier than when pickers were made. The best moisture for picking is about 25% to limit field losses. That is why it's stored in vented cribs.
Bruce from Can.
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I have a Wetmore hammer mill, used to have it lagged down to the barn floor with a auger coming out of the grainery . Belted the hammer mill to my W4 McCormick , if I ran the grain in too fast , it would pull the old W4 down. The hammer mill was just as loud as a grain blower/sucker on a feed truck.
A snapper WILL NOT DO YOU ANY GOOD. Just first adjustment, then time of day followed by varity as the corn bred for shellers will always shell off more than what is bred for picking and then moisture you are trying to pick at needs to be slightly higher than for the shellers. Your New Idea is supposed to be the best picker out there. Will not find better. Just need to find a different way of magement.
Destroked 450
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Ford 601-602 mounted pickers were some of the best pickers make, the snapping rolls are at an angle so that as soon as the ear was snapped off it would drop into the first elevator taking it up to the husking bed or cross conveyor.
On pickers with flat snapping rolls the ear are being shelled as they travel up the rolls.
Down side to mounted pickers is they're a pain to hookup and the tractor is dedicated until your done picking.
We have 2 601's, one with husking bed, one without.
We pick corn on the ear and grind it for cattle feed in our Gehl 95 grinder mixer .
If our operation was big enough that we would need a two row machine I'd look at a John Deere 300 with a stripper plate head.
Most of what shells off in my 601's goes into the wagon anyway but this year I'm going to talk to my seed dealer about a more picker friendly variety.
Dump wagons work better for ear corn than gravity beds.
used red MN
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I wonder if the OP is more concerned about full cob appearance rather then the kernel loss as in selling the cobs for squirrel feed or decorative etc? Just got a hunch. No expert corn picker but I could see how conditions and variety would have a lot to do with it.
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