Int'l-Harvestor Tractor-mount(M/H?) 1-Row Corn Picker

In the Process of Detailing our Farm & Ranch Property in SouthEastern Colorado, I have learned that an old 3-piece implement We have recently moved in preparation for scrap salvage is actually a 1940's/1950's(Uncertain?) International-Harvestor - Tractor Mounted Single Row Corn Picker which worked up until the day it was retired on our farm. My brother has indicated that this machine was mountable on and IH-Model H Tractor. However, When I chain-lifted 2 of the pieces using an IH-Model M Tractor with a double cylinder Farmland-Lift-Loader, I began to doubt if an IH-Model H could even hold this machine. I rather believe that it was for at least an IH-M! This Thing is Heavy!!! I am additionally told that there may exist a group in Indianna known as the Hillboro Indiana Corn Pickers, or similar, whom may restore these and use them in an annual competition with similar restored John Deere Machines! I hate to scrap this thing if it does have some kind of retrospective value of any kind! It is at least, soley a piece of agricultural history if nothing other than by age alone. Other than the years on it, it is in immaculate condition. I am hoping someone out there can advise Me if this is anything someone would be interested in restoring or of any value whatsoever?!!! We are not looking for some antiques-roadshow price or anything like that for it as it is destined for the scrap-heap if no fruition to our current search for a good home is located.... Can anybody help Me with this>>??? Does such a competition exist, annually>>??? Any reply would be appreciated!!! Thank You and Sincerely,... Dean Hamilton

They put a 1 row fully mounted picker on an F14 tractor and that is a lot smaller than an H so I think an H would have handled it OK, a lot of difference in carrying something mounted on a tractor as against picking it up with a loader.

Its hard to tell if all the mounting stuff needed would still be there. Post some pics as someone would be interested. After all it laid there all the yrs and shouldnt be a quick thing to get rid of. Those pickers were made for tractors before the H-Ms were built.

I'm not familiar with the 1 row mounted IH,but the similar 1 row mounted Deere had a wheel on the outside to carry some of the weight.

Hi Dean -

I tried emailing you through your board message earlier this morning...

I"ve had trouble with those messages not getting through in the past...

I live near the SE CO region and would be interested in talking to you about the picker...

My email is howard at opsu.edu.

Thanks,
Howard