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I really think this ear corn thing is gonna take off.

rockyridgefarm

rockyridgefarm

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I bought a uni picker 4 days ago, and now I own a Kewanee 600 elevator. I tried to find one to beg borrow or steal, but they have all been retired to the pasture for two decades, and there just were not any to be had that were useable. I would have borrowed Toms, but he pry would have charged me as much as this one cost.

Had to pull it 60 miles home. Got it in St Donatus IA. Supposedly one of the best ear corn elevators built. I think he told me it is 55 feet. I have seen so many of these things sell for $50 at sales, that I am almost embarrassed about what I paid.




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We had a Kewanee with that flip over drag. Very good elevator. I pulled it about 175 miles to its new owner. He paid me to deliver it.
 
Good find. Kewanee was the Cadillac of elevators around here back in the day. The chain ran on a raised area so the bottom of the flights didnt screech against the floor. The hopper raised easy too. My neighbor had a Kewanee that raised with a hydraulic cylinder like a wagon hoist. Most were cable lift.
 
We ran our Uni picked cobs through a Kewanee elevator. It
had the tip down drag, but with the acquisition of the Uni and
gravity boxes Pa dismounted the drag and put a short hopper
on that the gravity boxes dumped into. I still can hear the din
of the cobs. Clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk. We ran it with an old
open face cast iron frame 1/2 hp. electric motor run through a
30’s something Chevy 3 speed transmission. 2nd gear for cob
corn, 3rd gear for grain.
 
Hope someone takes videos to show here of your operation that is not so common nowadays. How many row head on the Uni?
 
(quoted from post at 13:43:47 10/04/20) Hope someone takes videos to show here of your operation that is not so common nowadays. How many row head on the Uni?
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The uni has a 3rn head. I could pry post videos if you want me to try.

Set up, oiled, and ready to top off wagons


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Ya, cobs. I never heard an ear of corn referred to as a cob until we moved into this area when I was
a kid. When eating sweet corn in particular, people often refer to how many cobs they ate. I ask
them if cobs taste good.
 

As far as I know, the 500 had less capacity. The fellow I bought it from said he had had a 500, and the 600 would unload a wagon faster with less spilling. Trough on the 600 is 20 inches wide. I think the 500 is 18 inches
 
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