Dad had a JD No. 26 (I think that's the number) push type corn picker and then later we had a JD 227 corn picker mounted on a 1946 JD A with pressed steel rear wheels. We just switched the wheels side to side at the end of the axle. Dad made adjustable stands to set the axle housings on after jacking the tractor wheels just off the ground with a steam engine jack. We loosened the 3 bolts holding the collar and using a heavy hammer hit a short shaft to loosen the collar. We switched the wheels twice a year and never had a problem moving the wheels. We would put plenty of oil on the axle and slid the wheels in and out a couple times before switching the wheels Then snugged up the collar evenly and then tightened it evenly. We never had a wheel come loose. I don't understand why it took so long to mount a 227 or 237 picker. When I was older, I changed the wheels one night, put the mounts and radiator screen on the second night, and mounted the picker and elevator the third night. Each night was 1 1/2 hours between getting off the school bus and doing chores. It might have been harder doing the No. 26 since the angle between the wheels had to be taken off to drive the tractor into the picker and then replaced and the steering pole to the narrow front end and the steerable wheels under the picker.
The pics are of the older push type corn picker were taken at The Half Century of Progress of display corn pickers.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Pat Browning. The setting is rural Wisconsin, halfway between East Troy and Elkhorn, on Hodunk Road, our nation was at war, and I was 6, 7 and 8 years old. George was our "threshing neighbor." He was the one with the threshing machine, a JI Case on steel wheels, and he pulled it to our farm with a JI Case standard tractor also on steel. In those days, steel wheeled implements were common. The roads were general gravel, so the lugs cutting into them wasn't a problem. George would set up the thresher, s
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