Allis picks corn!

formerly ny bill · Mar 21, 2020

after 3 years of false starts, I finally got the Allis Chalmers corn picker into the field. I didn't have very high hopes for it, and it didn't let me down. I could go about 1/2-3/4 mph, and 1 mph would plug it. but it did put some corn in the wagon. after about 1/3 of a load, I borrowed a neighbor's New Idea picker, and could go 2 1/2-3 mph. the beauty of using a hydro to pull the picker!

the result after the Allis with no husking bed.

the result from the New Idea.

SVcummins · Mar 21, 2020

So a little corn made it through winter still on the stalk. That?s a pretty nice looking corn picking operation it looks like . We had a hydro with a loader on it I can still remember how it sounded when you would shove that lever all the way ahead with the throttle wide open . I can?t even remember what model it was now

8NHENRY · Mar 21, 2020

Nice picture! How many loads did you pick, just the one?

formerly ny bill · Mar 21, 2020

I picked about 1/3 of the wagon with Allis, then finished that load and did 1 more with the New Idea. still a couple more loads to get, but I wanted
to see how the corn ground up before I decided whether to pick the rest or combine it. I'll pick the ears.

formerly ny bill · Mar 21, 2020

the corn stood real well, especially on that field, which slopes toward the west. the only damage was where the bears mopped corn down last fall.
Dad bought a new 826 hydro in the spring of 1971. i pulled a IH 550 5 bottom semimount plow with it. a neighbor 3 miles away said he could always tell when I was plowing, the way the sound echoed down the valley. used the 826 on the plow, the chopper, baler, 2 row corn picker, and spread manure in the winter. Dad traded it off on a new 1086 in 1978, and we never had any trouble with the hydro. I have had this one since the late 1990s. it is a goldie, but was repainted by the original owners that I bought it from.

SVcummins · Mar 21, 2020

They definitely have a good sound to em. I learned to plow pulling a 5 bottom IH 550 they are a good out fit I should have kept it . I don?t much one way plowing anymore since I got the 314 and 642 two way plows . I?m glad you can salvage the corn that?s gotta be a good feeling after a long winter do the bears only come down in the fall

formerly ny bill · Mar 21, 2020

I suspect the bears are coming out of hibernation now. so that is another reason to get the corn done asap. bears are getting to be a real problem around here.

DoubleR · Mar 21, 2020

Nice pictures. I'm surprised that load you picked with the New Idea had that many husk still on them. I've had a couple of 323 pickers and never had many husk left although I don't ever remember picking dry corn in the spring with one.

SVcummins · Mar 21, 2020

Probably can?t shoot the cockeyed things either

grandpa Love · Mar 21, 2020

Bill, great pictures. Looks like fun. Shoot me an email please.

formerly ny bill · Mar 21, 2020

DEC has been pretty good about issuing nuisance permits for bear and beaver. neighbors killed 8 or 10 bears at corn chopping time a couple years ago.

DR. EVIL · Mar 21, 2020

826 HYDRO and that NI picker would make a great picking combination. Took till the mid-1960's around home, 20 miles east of Moline/Rock Island, Illinois for NI to knock IH mounted pickers out of most popular picker brand. Neighbor had a 2-M picker he put on his old MD every fall, Dad picked with a 2M-E for 19 years. Would have been an even 20 yrs but he hired the corn combined to sell the last year he farmed. Local seed corn company picked a couple thousand acres of seed corn every year with IH tractors and 2M-H pickers. Had one on a SM-TA, 460 with heavy rear axles, and a 560. Combines dominated by 1970. Only guys who fed cattle ground earcorn still picked corn. Few guys picked ear corn AND put a sheller on the picker, for shellcorn to grind for hog feed, but combines quickly took over because they were so much faster.
I worked at the IH FARMALL Plant from Oct. 1976 to Christmas 1981, was laid off all of 1978. BUT as a salaried employee I worked during the BIG Strike of '79-'80. One day a couple supervisors assembling some 686 & H86's way down on the far west end of the plant got in a discussion about which tractor would be faster in a drag race. So at quitting time, a 686 & H86, both D310 Nuess powered line up side by side and from what I saw, both tractors got a good fair start. Kinda by design I couldn't see the far end of the yard, so don't know which tractor was first, but the gear drive topped out at 16.8 mph, the hydro at 21 mph. Pretty sure the gear drive probably got a jump off the line taking off in low 5th, and shifting to High TA as soon as engine got to full rpm, then the hydro just walked past it over 4 mph faster.

JK-NY · Mar 21, 2020

The corn looks good. Field also looks fairly dry for this time of the year. Maybe you are out picking corn this morning while ground is frozen. I imagine the A-C picker was designed to handle a lot lower yielding corn than what is grown today.

DeltaRed · Mar 21, 2020

Never picked any corn. However,I have a VAC Case with a Ford one row mounted picker.Been thinking of rebuilding it.Just to play with.I also have an 826 Hydro. The best thing ever on a baler. I also use it to clean'water marks'(furrows) and to 'bed' new fields.Usually 200 to 300 per year. You can run all day and never step on the 'clutch' pedal.Probably the most used tractor on the place.

8NHENRY · Mar 21, 2020

New Idea pickers where big in this areas And usually picked cleaner than most. When there would be a farmer that was down and every one would come together to help out picking corn, you could tell by looking at the side of the crib which loads where from the NI pickers, much cleaner. Sure do like seeing the corn pickers in the field.

tim s · Mar 21, 2020

Nice,, The last corn I picked was with a John Deere 300 husker/3 row narrow head, pulled it with a 4630,,it would pick more corn than a foot ball team could keep up with unloading...

formerly ny bill · Mar 21, 2020

in the early 1970s, Dad bought a New Idea 325 2 row picker. my grandparent's farm was 7 miles away from the home farm. for several years, I picked about 40 acres of ear corn at Grandpa's, loaded it from gravity boxes (one is in the pictures) onto a 1950 International L180 flatbed dump, and hauled it home to put into corn cribs. the truck had no windows in the doors, and only 1 of the 2 rear cab windows. made for some real cold rides, some days.

fastfarmall · Mar 21, 2020

Mother nature's perfect feed,that cob has a lot of benefit, on Dairy cattle you'r going to get a higher butterfat milk content, on finishing cattle it prevents bloat,with hogs it's almost a perfect ration for sow's !

8deers · Mar 21, 2020

In northern MN they are running into many bear that built dens in field. Some are deep and well compelled. Cubs weigh 5-10 lbs and have sharp claws. DNR want farmer to wait with harvest.

pms · Mar 21, 2020

Was wondering if it was a gold demonstrator.There's a guy on the red power website that started a registry for those tractors.Great pictures!

Paul

Bob Bancroft · Mar 21, 2020

4MPH was where our NI would pick corn. You could go faster for a little ways, but it would start plugging up.

Bob Bancroft · Mar 21, 2020

I believe the rear of that really long snapping roll on the AC was supposed to be a husking roll. I agree with your assessment of the AC picker.

Super H Mike · Mar 21, 2020

I still pick corn every fall using an old IH 1PR, it is one of my favorite tractor jobs. I have had NI pickers before too, and it should be doing a much better husking job than in the picture, something isn't right. The old 1PR actually cleans great, but you have to go pretty slow and there is plenty of shelling loss from the snapping rollers. Nice pictures !

Super H Mike · Mar 21, 2020

Try for video
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Super H Mike · Mar 21, 2020

Sorry wrong video !

Super H Mike · Mar 21, 2020

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JMS/.MN · Mar 21, 2020

I think AC marketed the one row as a snapper, not a picker. The two row mounted picker did not husk well either- the picking rolls were rubber and did not remove husks well. Dad bought the mounted picker (WC tractor)used, in 1949. Definitely not for today"s corn.

larry@stinescorner · Mar 21, 2020

Nice pictures!! I took these of my neighbor picking corn years ago

730virgil · Mar 21, 2020

one of my favorite things to do picking ear corn with pull type picker,
I would like to do that again for a couple of hours

sammydwm · Mar 22, 2020

Really liked pulling a picker with the old 756, not a hydro but worked pretty good.

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