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.
That was pretty slick.
ReplyDeleteI 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.