Uni pics

I ran across some shots of the one I have today











if someone can use it I would deal,, I have not started it in a few years now

What's the implement mounted to it? The blower makes me think silage cutter,but the conveyor says ear corn picker.

Tom,did you used to sell em in your dealership?There is an old gent in the next town who has an early one(MinneapolisMoline) with several implements.Hasnt run in years. Still pretty interesting

it has a sweet corn bed on it

Interesting. that would be neat to see it work as growing sweetcorn(Olathe Sweet) is huge here.It's all picked by hand.

bring me the 150 combine and you can haul this one home lol

There's three or four brothers that have bought a lot of ground around here in the last few years, over a hundred acres are across the road from me. I think all are most of it is organic seed. There fun to watch, have almost all used JD equipment that looks really clean, lots of tractors from 4020s up to two tracked JDs. Last fall two nice looking old Unis were setting in one of their corn fields, must work good for their seed business. Haven't seen another one in years.

My brother still has some in use, 707, 708, 709, and one of the 800 series with the Cummins. Several older out on boot hill, 701, 702, 703, 705. I think the rarest one I've ever heard of was the one with the Ford four cylinder turbo engine. I don't recall now but one might have been at one of the service training classes I attended at Coldwater Ohio in the 70s. One of the 702 with the GMC 401 V6 has a three auger nine foot snow blower on now.

We had the moline setup, dad got a gold/tan power unit with a yellow ear corn picker and yellow bean combine unit. It was a good idea but the old setups were a little before their time as well as past their prime.....

The picker couldn’t handle 1970s corn yields, and the snapping roll gears weren’t available once they wore out. The transmission was just a big micro ribbed flat belt - pushing the couch released the tensioner. That wasnt so fun for dad on our rolling hills, pulling 100 by wagons it wanted to freewheel down the hills as the belt would slip in a pushing situation.

Then with the weight so terribly offcentered it would not pull in our wet muddy clay soils, the far wheel was too light and spin, as all other wheels on it and the wagon would sink.

He actually liked the combine part, but the 10 foot head was not really right for us.

Neat pics of what it evolved into.

Paul

Sorry, But this may be a little long! Mentioning the UNI sure brings back memories for me. My Dad farmed in north-central Illinois and had an early M-M Uni with the single rear wheel and no power steering. He had the Combine, and the mounted Windrower as he still did oats that way, also had the Picker and Sheller, but was too cheap to buy the whole sheller outfit, but removed the corn head from the picker and put it on the sheller when he finished corn for the year. It was a whole day job switching the corn head from picker to sheller and another day to switch back. I was in late grade school and early high school when he had the Uni. But remember pulling many loads of ear corn to the cribs with his 49 M-M UTU. I still remember the day Dad was picking corn, in of course one of the farthest away fields, when he got his coat sleeve pulled into a pulley that ran a blower for the ear corn elevator. The pulley was starting to cut into his wrist when the belt came off and he was able to stop the machine and holding his injured arm walked to home. My older brother had just got home from high school and took Dad to the emergency room then operating room where the Doctors were able to connect tendons, etc. and save his hand. We were told the main nerve to hand was just starting to be severed, and had it been, he would have lost his hand. Needless to say, Dad was done picking corn for the year, but several neighbors and Farm Equipment Dealers came with Pickers, wagons, etc. and finished the corn harvest in half a day. I even got to stay home from school that day to help! John in Sunny AZ

No Steve we did not sell them no corn right here by me you have to go 100 miles east to see corn being raised or 200 miles south,, I was dumb enough to loan a long time friend and customer the money to buy this, when it would not work because he never bought the correct header for it to run sweet corn he refused to pay me a dime back so i had to go 180 miles in to Montana to repo it,, you do not want to know what i have in it

Back when I was in high school couple summers I rouged and detassled seed corn for the company that is no longer in the seed business in my old home town. The other two smaller companies are still alive and kicking 50 years later. The company I worked for back then had 3-4 I-H mounted pickers, 2M-H's on a SM-TA, 460 with heavy rear axles, a 450 or 560. They went over lots of corn every fall.
They bought a Uni-Harvester to pick with, think it had the GMC big V-6. It spent most of the winter sitting in the big grass wzterway on the 80 acres my Sister and I own. It caught on fire. I'm thinking it got scrapped.

Tempting, I'll be going through next week with a silo to Idaho then will have an empty trailer back, well probably will pick up hay or straw in Nebraska!

Knocked out 2 semi loads today with my 708.

Any photogrphs