Monday, October 5, 2020

Tuesday Torque: Old Fashioned Corn Picking!

 I kinda like the two row New Idea pickers, but they had a big disadvantage.  Opening a field was something that still had to be done by hand, or by a tractor mounted picker. The huge advantage of the New Idea pickers was that no operators joined the Nub Club by maiming courtesy of the rollers.  Tractor mounted corn pickers wrecked a lot of arms when the farmer tried to move stuck corn stalks in the rollers while running. 


1 comment:

John in Philly said...

That was pretty slick.
I have zero experience with mechanical corn picking.
Speaking of dangerous, my wife and I were watching a hay baler demonstration at Rough & Tumble's Threshermans Reunion some years ago and with all the wide belts, open gearing, and wildly moving arms it made realized why so many old workers had injuries.