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big tee

big tee

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Don't cut them up--This one brought $2400 on Big Iron auctions yesterday. Neighbor had one when I was a kid only his was gray.---Tee
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HOLY COW !!!!!
I remember the neighbor had one. Years ago he sold it. IIRC I think he said they could be adjusted to work to pick popcorn ?
 
Great uncle had two of them on his sale in 08. Should check out the deere mounted picker results on auctiontime, 237 brought about 5,000. Have 2 237s in a shed and a 227, told dad he has some gold there.
 
I've got a New Idea picker of my dads sitting in the fence row now. If I thought it was worth half as much as that i'd go digging it out.
 
I have both a gray and a red one. Both are inside. I picked a half load of corn with the gray one when I first got it some 20 years ago. The red one should work, but it's missing a gathering chain. Got one for it a couple years ago but haven't put it on yet.
 
I tried hard to get one out of a grove down the road from me. The renter drug it out and smashed it with a hammer for the cast, brass, and scrap rather than taking my offer.
 
MIKE

Pick popcorn ..... I can see the movie theater manager freaking out if you hauled that into the lobby.
 
There were a few Wood Bros pickers around here. I thought they were two row though. Remember the pull type pickers with side elevators and wagon was pulled along side. Took several rows to open a field for them. Oliver comes to mind on one of them. Dad had a mounted picker and he opened fields for a few neighbors.
 
Excellant picture. Exactly like the one we had in the late 50's. My dad and I had many hours and late nights picking corn with it. About 20+ years ago I watched one sold at auction for $25. Probably scraped.
One year we contracted to pick the neighbors corn and the ground was so wet we could not get into the field. Waiting for the ground to freeze we ended up on mud covered with 8 to 12" of snow using an H Farmall with a 2nd H in front on about 20' of chain. Dad and I started picking the day before Christmas and picked every day, including Christmas and New Years Day.
We used to store the picker in a lean to on the back of the barn with the Woods Bros. 6' combine. To get it in I would remove the elevator and lay it on top of the machine. Our H and the 8N were then parked in front of them.
 
Did they have a husking bed?

Dad had a worthless General Implement snapper only. One cold day it ate my 4 foot lath I used for unplugging so quickly my mittened hand almost went into the rolls.

Leo
 
A 237 at that price,I hope it had a tractor along with it. I still have my 237 setting in the shed all oiled up and waiting to get used again. Tom
 
(quoted from post at 13:05:03 06/27/19) Don't cut them up--This one brought $2400 on Big Iron auctions yesterday. Neighbor had one when I was a kid only his was gray.---Tee
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I believe that is the same model picker in this photo:

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My late dad on a '48 MM Z in about 1956. I don't know when or how long Grandpa and Dad had that picker but they were using a New Idea 2 row by '61 per some old home movies.

I don't remember Dad ever mentioning this picker but he DID mention the Woods Bros combine they had around the same time and apparently that was a POS...
 
Almost had one bought in very similar shape a couple years for around $500. All restored. I bought the Ford pull type combine instead. Not quite as good of shape as the picker but Grandpa had one and I couldn't let it go after looking for one for so long. Wish I would have tried a little more and got both. The wish list never gets shorter!
 
Never saw an Oliover that had the siode elevatot. John Deere did with the 200 picker and Moline also but I don't know model number for it. A few of the very early New Idea also had a side elevator.
 
(quoted from post at 23:20:00 06/27/19) Wow! Thats a strong sale!

Here is mine - behind my 8N.


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Aren't 8N's useless for anything other than, well, anything?




That's sarcasm by the way in the very likely scenario that some won't get it.
 
Picked corn with one for many years. It did a good job, with some butt shelling as with any old picker. Broke a raddle chain once, never had any other problems. I pulled it with a JD D. One year it was so wet I had to wait for frozen ground every morning, go pick for an hour until the frost melted. Made for slow going, I didn't finish until January that year. Sold it for three x what I paid for it--wish I had it back.
 
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