Shoup Manufacturing in Kankakee, Illinois used to carry new snapping rolls for NI pickers. I never had a problem getting parts for my picker from Plevna Equipment in North central Indiana. Muncie I think. Those rubber finger wheels are still available new. Ear corn makes high quality feed. Best regards from Indiana.
Amazing video! So exciting to see the final day of the 2024 corn harvest! The dedication and modern techniques used in agriculture really brought this season to a successful close. Huge respect for all the hard work and the awesome footage. Looking forward to more great videos like this!
Just watching your videos takes me back about 60 years or so when I was a kid and helped farm on my grandparents and folks farms. Allis Chalmers and International tractors and equipment. I left the farming about 1974 or so.
Thanks again for showing us your ear corn harvest. This brought back so many memories for me even though it was such a long time ago. I love the fact that you are still committed to harvesting your corn this way. It's so cool for me that 50 years ago I remember us doing our harvest exactly like you are doing it today.
Your channel reminds me so much of our farm when I was younger growing up. Picking corn, smaller equipment, I’ll never forget those years. We still own the farms but now lease it out to a larger operator as the costs of everything began to get out of control. Really enjoy this channel, your farm is beautiful.
Seeing your dad harvest that corn on the side of the hill reminded me of my dad. For years, we shucked and stucked corn by hand as little kids. Then one year, my dad got a corn picker like you guys have. That year, dad was harvesting corn on a slope, there was a bit snow on the ground, and he tipped the wagon over, spilling all the corn. I was 7 or 8 years old and never forgot seeing all that corn lying on the ground. Nonetheless, I was the happiest farm kid the year my dad got a corn picker.
Paul from N.E.Iowa, Electrician by trade farmer by Heart. Own 30 acres, 14 head of Black Angus, Cow/calf . Busy right now taking a lot of Ash trees down due to Ash bore. Appreciate your videos, God Bless you and your family!!!
I’m in western Iowa and own 60 acres with 18 registered angus cows. I’m also feeding last years calves to market weight. Heifers will be retaining or selling as Breds.
Seeing that green ground behind second field. Makes me ask how last nights dewed up vines dried at all. Lifestyle choices of those seeing the obvious with active intuiton and Love for Mother Nature.
Glad to see another farmer still picking corn. We filled three cribs also this year. We have a 325 pull type picker. You can buy those rubber fingers, they help with husking. I saw a place in farm Show magazine.
Always liked fall harvest in SW Wisconsin!!! My Dad used an old left hand pull type picker made by Woods Bros. And he always taught me that if two out of three cobs float in the cow tank, then it was ready to crib(in an old wooden crib). So when rented MY first farm, I was always checking the cobs in the cow water tank, enough so that, when I drained the water tank for winter prep, there was about 2 scoop shovels of cob in the bottom.🤣 Guess I was impatient 🤷♂️
I've seen guys make replacements for the husking bed fingers out of old tires or conveyor belts. One just installed rectangular pieces the full width, but cut a few narrow V grooves so they can flex at different areas. I believe they just had 4 of those attached to the axle where all those finger sprocket things normally attach, and they worked great.
Well, that bearing made it!Picking corn videos are my favorite! (The baling hay hold a very close second). Thanks for sharing. Your my #1 UA-cam channel. Thanks for sharing.
I think you better stick with the mounted pickers on side hills. The pull type run all the stalks down. We used IH 2MH mounted pickers for years. We had to sell our 560 Diesel years ago. We bought a New Idea 324 pull type . They don't hold up on side hills . We used to count on baling stalks , but every other row on side hills gets run down. Keep doing what you are doing . Do not fix anything that is not broken .
This is so great to see the way it was when America was most all small or medium sized farms like yours harvesting corn now just most mega industrial type farms left...thanks for the memories from my younger days.
So excited for American farmers. This time next year there will be plenty of former federal workers to pick corn by hand. People will be as melo as these men and happy to be in Nature where humans are made to care about eachother.
@@dalehodges5362 I hope so! Biden administration trying to get world War 3 started. The democrat party has become war mongers an fiscally out of control.
I love your outlook that we can "do just with this". Too many people have to have the latest and greatest. In the end, they cut their profits and gain a moment or two and that's all.
Its very nice to see a successful family farm in operation. Picking corn, ahhhh the memories. I Grew up on a farm, northern Iowa, 60s, miss those days. Ended up 4 years USMC, Vietnam era, then 21 years USN Seabees. Retired now back in Iowa.😅 Keep at it, hope you find picker parts or another picker.
Love watching the corn picking. We only had pull behind New Idea pickers, always was interested in the mounted pickers would like to run one some time. We had the same type elevator as well. Thanks for sharing.
im a farmer transplanted to the city. i enjoy your videos because youre farming a few acres with vintage equipment. i hope you can find parts for your corn picker
I'll take a look down at the other farm. I think I have a very close to new snapping rolls. I bought that picker just for the rolls and then I switch over to all shelled corn. I keep the rolls and junked the picker. I think they are up in the rafters. "WOW" that was the first time I saw your channel. Win I fined them I'll look you up on Facebook. Have a safe harvest.
Just love you, guys keeping the old stuff running because its still so useful, hopefully the guy from Iowa with the picker will be a Win for you folks!!!
We had a cart we made from an extra sub frame & an axle out of old New Idea manure spreader. The tongue come out from under the front center snout. Worked good for retrieving & even storing a picker. Made it easy to move on a seconds notice. We were gathering up pickers from auctions too for parts. We bought one for parts & got it home & decided it was way better shape than we were running so we used that one for years.
It's great to see the 1650 Oliver still in use! Dad had one, which was used just the same as you do. He also an 1850 Oliver which was the plow and chisel tractor. This was in the mid 1960's to mid 1970's, here in central Iowa.
Beautiful equipment i have just purchased my first combine hopefully next year i can plant some corn also I believe there is a place in Pennsylvania where you can get New husking bed fingers
Iam a corn picker to! Tell your dad get a pull type picker! I hook my cab tractor to a 325 newidea. Its quiet in the cab with no corn dust. Plus a radio.
I said it before in the first day of filling the bins but I'm much happier seeing the bobcat catching the loose grain falling vs nothing. Much better!!
Those fingers are still available through AGCO. I ordered a customer some about a month ago for his 1 row picker. Depending on the size of finger some actually weren't too bad in $. Problem with AGCO is you need to have a dealer that still has the license for new idea parts. We sold them back in the day and only sell the white/mf planters new now but we are grandfathered in for new idea parts.
I drove unis for years in the seed industry. We had a fair number of those finger wheels they went to the auction house theres surely a supply out there but probably on the pricey side. Something else that can be done on all the self propelled beds 727,737, 838 etc the back of the bed before the corn was pushed into the elevator instead of finger wheels they used rubber flaps, 2 flaps 180* from each other. Build your own brackets to bolt on the shaft or scavenge for some. As for the rubber if you cant find any heavy sheet rubber, grainger, mcmaster carr come to mind, might be able to cut some out of some old tires
I believe there is a company in lancaster PA that sells parts for all different makes of pickers to rebuild them if that's something your looking for mahwus
My brother has one for sale. It's sitting inside his corn crib driveway. He hasn't used it in around fifteen years. We're in eastern Iowa just north of Dubuque. It's also a 319 with a twelve roll bed. Let me know if you're interested in it. Then I'll have him contact you.
Considering the weather challenges, your corn turned out well. Ours was variable depending if it was darker soil or droughty knobs. Just didn't get the rains in late July and August here in N Central Ohio that would've filled out corn ears and bean pods better. Sure was nice not to have muddy conditions at harvest time though.
Roeder Implement in Dubuque Iowa has one on their inventory reduction sale coming up I think the Saturday after Thanksgiving it is by far the nicest mounted new idea picker I have ever seen. it's listed with Powers Auction Service
George, I got some of those fingers they're called ear forwarders from an outfit in my home state here in Pennsylvania called keiters farm equipment they are in Halifax PA. I'd rather imagine if you Google and they would come up hope that helps
Also, Oliver sold in excellent mounted, corn picker, and since you have at 1650 with a narrow front, you could mount, an Oliver picker on it. Pole type picker should use the same snapping rollers. I see where a guy north of Dubuque told you about a picker for sale. If you get other offers, I’d buy everyone you can get now before they wind up in the scrap been melted down for scrap steel.
Check out a good machine shop. That can fabricate parts. We have had good luck with that sort of thing we just bring a used part in and ask if they can make such a thing. Some of our obsolete John Deere equipment because Paustenbach Equipment over the years. I'm thinking that 656 is ready to shed the picker pretty soon.
Thanks for sharing the video. Really enjoy them. Nice looking job of picking corn. I'll look in the shed and see if I have any parts left to send you. I think I don't but I will look. That's the trouble they don't make machinery for the average farmers anymore. Especially corn pickers and combines that are 4-6 row units. Not everyone is planting a few thousand acres. Y'all stay safe out there working on the farm.
You might want to contact Yoder & Fry Auctions in Archbold, Ohio. They deal in older farm machinery and other stuff. They might be able to hook you up or keep an eye out for one.
There are several businesses online that advertise parts for New Idea pickers including one that was featured in Farm Shop magazine called Country Machinery in Leona Pennsylvania. They said in the article if they couldn't find the parts from Agco, they would make them. I see 324 pull type pickers for sale for $1500. The dealers who have them are way over priced. My opinion for you guys is find a 324, use the mounted to open, split, and pick off the tight areas and pick off the bigger areas with the pull type. Put that 1466 on it. The rubber fingers are still available from Agco. The last time I priced them, they were $60.
Dad had a really really nice IH 234 picker that was mounted on a 706 & he junked it about 15 yrs ago. I asked him why & he said no one will want that thing. Ahhhh. Those 234 were great pickers, it didn’t shell in the field like the pull type new ideas he had
There is a place out by me I believe in Leola or Lititz PA that has a lot.of picker parts. Stuff for the busking bed, snap rollers etc. Amish run but they do have a website I believe.
Glad you had more then enough to fill the bin. Like I said my last boss had a two roe mounted but I think it was a IH but not sure. Don't know if he still has it but will check if you want. Plus Missouri may be to far to come to get it.
Thank you for the great video! Could you make a plan to upgrade to a tractor pulled picker? Are there more of those around? You might also get around the Amish community if you are looking for older stuff. Maybe get on the auctioneers notification lists, or even run some small ads of some bulletin boards with dairy groups, especially in remote areas of your state or neighboring states (I'm talking cheap of free ads or entries) Sometimes your state ag dept. has newsletters with spaces for farmers to buy/sell/trade. Your cooperative extension office may be able to help as well. I bet you know about most of these. You just need to consider that they might work, and are worth the effort...especially if you have time in winter to do this.
My thoughts is if you could find a newer Uni-system then you could pick corn and combine with the same power unit. I really liked the old one we had, older than Trinity farms even.
On the husking bed. Instead of replacing fingers I took square tubing that would slide over original square shaft, cut to length between cotter pins, welded light angle iron to tubing and bolted old baler belting cut to length. My opinion is works way better then fingers ever did. Last time I checked for fingers they were outrageous in price if you could even find them
A sidehill hitch? I wanna see a picture of that. Is it hydraulic? Factory or something your dad fabricated? Man that would have been HANDIEE!!! If you had a sidehill hitch on a plow what a better job of plowing you could do, on a mounted picker is just genius
I sure hope you are able to over-winter pasture those stalks. Just think of all the cobs with corn that are hidden in those stalks. That was one thing hogs were good at, they found it all!
Still. Not only did they buy the parts, but they bought the entire inventory of new pickers. They advertised them for several years, until they were finally sold.
20:00.........rare but beautiful sight............multiple cribs full of freshly picked bright yellow cob corn.
6:10...........always amazed how that New Idea picker can handle the thickly planted corn at that speed and do a good job.
like watchng you guys are old school keep it up love the oliver
Great corn picking video brings back lots of memeries
Shoup Manufacturing in Kankakee, Illinois used to carry new snapping rolls for NI pickers. I never had a problem getting parts for my picker from Plevna Equipment in North central Indiana. Muncie I think. Those rubber finger wheels are still available new. Ear corn makes high quality feed.
Best regards from Indiana.
I love watching your Corn Picking Videos and Greetings from germany.
(Sorry for my Spelling 😅)
Amazing video! So exciting to see the final day of the 2024 corn harvest! The dedication and modern techniques used in agriculture really brought this season to a successful close. Huge respect for all the hard work and the awesome footage. Looking forward to more great videos like this!
Your Dad is the Corn Picking King!!!
Just watching your videos takes me back about 60 years or so when I was a kid and helped farm on my grandparents and folks farms. Allis Chalmers and International tractors and equipment. I left the farming about 1974 or so.
Thanks again for showing us your ear corn harvest. This brought back so many memories for me even though it was such a long time ago. I love the fact that you are still committed to harvesting your corn this way. It's so cool for me that 50 years ago I remember us doing our harvest exactly like you are doing it today.
Your channel reminds me so much of our farm when I was younger growing up. Picking corn, smaller equipment, I’ll never forget those years. We still own the farms but now lease it out to a larger operator as the costs of everything began to get out of control. Really enjoy this channel, your farm is beautiful.
Seeing your dad harvest that corn on the side of the hill reminded me of my dad. For years, we shucked and stucked corn by hand as little kids. Then one year, my dad got a corn picker like you guys have. That year, dad was harvesting corn on a slope, there was a bit snow on the ground, and he tipped the wagon over, spilling all the corn. I was 7 or 8 years old and never forgot seeing all that corn lying on the ground. Nonetheless, I was the happiest farm kid the year my dad got a corn picker.
Paul from N.E.Iowa, Electrician by trade farmer by Heart. Own 30 acres, 14 head of Black Angus, Cow/calf . Busy right now taking a lot of Ash trees down due to Ash bore. Appreciate your videos, God Bless you and your family!!!
I’m in western Iowa and own 60 acres with 18 registered angus cows. I’m also feeding last years calves to market weight. Heifers will be retaining or selling as Breds.
Great video! Brings back a lot of memories.
Seeing that green ground behind second field. Makes me ask how last nights dewed up vines dried at all.
Lifestyle choices of those seeing the obvious with active intuiton and Love for Mother Nature.
Love that Oliver tractor way ahead of there time.
Glad to see another farmer still picking corn.
We filled three cribs also this year. We have a 325 pull type picker. You can buy those rubber fingers, they help with husking. I saw a place in farm Show magazine.
Always liked fall harvest in SW Wisconsin!!! My Dad used an old left hand pull type picker made by Woods Bros. And he always taught me that if two out of three cobs float in the cow tank, then it was ready to crib(in an old wooden crib). So when rented MY first farm, I was always checking the cobs in the cow water tank, enough so that, when I drained the water tank for winter prep, there was about 2 scoop shovels of cob in the bottom.🤣 Guess I was impatient 🤷♂️
I've seen guys make replacements for the husking bed fingers out of old tires or conveyor belts. One just installed rectangular pieces the full width, but cut a few narrow V grooves so they can flex at different areas. I believe they just had 4 of those attached to the axle where all those finger sprocket things normally attach, and they worked great.
Wow what a beautiful farm driving down from the hill the view was outstanding so kool the rolling hills!!!
another great video with you and your Dad on harvest GOD BLESS
Enjoy watching that corn picker. Growing up in the 70’s my dad had a picker, don’t remember the size but we ran it with the M Farmall.
Hello from Oshkosh. The cowbells remind me of my childhood in Germany. Great channel!
Great video of a family that represents our country.
Well, that bearing made it!Picking corn videos are my favorite! (The baling hay hold a very close second). Thanks for sharing. Your my #1 UA-cam channel. Thanks for sharing.
I think you better stick with the mounted pickers on side hills. The pull type run all the stalks down. We used IH 2MH mounted pickers for years. We had to sell our 560 Diesel years ago.
We bought a New Idea 324 pull type . They don't hold up on side hills . We used to count on baling stalks , but every other row on side hills gets run down. Keep doing what you are doing .
Do not fix anything that is not broken .
This is so great to see the way it was when America was most all small or medium sized farms like yours harvesting corn now just most mega industrial type farms left...thanks for the memories from my younger days.
So excited for American farmers. This time next year there will be plenty of former federal workers to pick corn by hand. People will be as melo as these men and happy to be in Nature where humans are made to care about eachother.
@@dalehodges5362 I hope so! Biden administration trying to get world War 3 started. The democrat party has become war mongers an fiscally out of control.
@@dalehodges5362 I hope so!
Good to see another successful harvest.
I love your outlook that we can "do just with this". Too many people have to have the latest and greatest. In the end, they cut their profits and gain a moment or two and that's all.
Its very nice to see a successful family farm in operation. Picking corn, ahhhh the memories. I Grew up on a farm, northern Iowa, 60s, miss those days. Ended up 4 years USMC, Vietnam era, then 21 years USN Seabees. Retired now back in Iowa.😅 Keep at it, hope you find picker parts or another picker.
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Love watching the corn picking. We only had pull behind New Idea pickers, always was interested in the mounted pickers would like to run one some time. We had the same type elevator as well. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing
im a farmer transplanted to the city. i enjoy your videos because youre farming a few acres with vintage equipment. i hope you can find parts for your corn picker
I'll take a look down at the other farm. I think I have a very close to new snapping rolls. I bought that picker just for the rolls and then I switch over to all shelled corn. I keep the rolls and junked the picker. I think they are up in the rafters. "WOW" that was the first time I saw your channel. Win I fined them I'll look you up on Facebook. Have a safe harvest.
Just love you, guys keeping the old stuff running because its still so useful, hopefully the guy from Iowa with the picker will be a Win for you folks!!!
thats the way i used to do it.the good ole days.thank you
Aaron great video. The scenery is breathtaking ❤❤❤
another great video!!
We had a cart we made from an extra sub frame & an axle out of old New Idea manure spreader. The tongue come out from under the front center snout. Worked good for retrieving & even storing a picker. Made it easy to move on a seconds notice. We were gathering up pickers from auctions too for parts. We bought one for parts & got it home & decided it was way better shape than we were running so we used that one for years.
It's great to see the 1650 Oliver still in use! Dad had one, which was used just the same as you do. He also an 1850 Oliver which was the plow and chisel tractor. This was in the mid 1960's to mid 1970's, here in central Iowa.
Beautiful equipment i have just purchased my first combine hopefully next year i can plant some corn also I believe there is a place in Pennsylvania where you can get New husking bed fingers
I sure miss the days of picking ear corn. We switched over to making snaplage, the cows seem to do really well on it
good job stay safe enjoyed it
Thanks so so much for the memories. 😊
Nice video Aaron
Iam a corn picker to! Tell your dad get a pull type picker! I hook my cab tractor to a 325 newidea. Its quiet in the cab with no corn dust. Plus a radio.
I said it before in the first day of filling the bins but I'm much happier seeing the bobcat catching the loose grain falling vs nothing. Much better!!
Loved the video. God bless you guys.
Those fingers are still available through AGCO. I ordered a customer some about a month ago for his 1 row picker. Depending on the size of finger some actually weren't too bad in $. Problem with AGCO is you need to have a dealer that still has the license for new idea parts. We sold them back in the day and only sell the white/mf planters new now but we are grandfathered in for new idea parts.
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Love watching your videos! Thank you for sharing!
Wish i had seen this video earlier. i scrapped out a nice two row mounted picker in shed it whole life
686 just keeps plugging away 😁, love that tractor . Great video fellas .
I drove unis for years in the seed industry. We had a fair number of those finger wheels they went to the auction house theres surely a supply out there but probably on the pricey side. Something else that can be done on all the self propelled beds 727,737, 838 etc the back of the bed before the corn was pushed into the elevator instead of finger wheels they used rubber flaps, 2 flaps 180* from each other. Build your own brackets to bolt on the shaft or scavenge for some. As for the rubber if you cant find any heavy sheet rubber, grainger, mcmaster carr come to mind, might be able to cut some out of some old tires
I believe there is a company in lancaster PA that sells parts for all different makes of pickers to rebuild them if that's something your looking for
It's call A.B.C. Grofft in New Holland PA
I believe there is a company in lancaster PA that sells parts for all different makes of pickers to rebuild them if that's something your looking for mahwus
My brother has one for sale. It's sitting inside his corn crib driveway. He hasn't used it in around fifteen years. We're in eastern Iowa just north of Dubuque. It's also a 319 with a twelve roll bed. Let me know if you're interested in it. Then I'll have him contact you.
That's awesome love this channel reminds me of my kid yrs
That's awesome guy helping out a fellow farmer hopefully it will work out!
Great video. All the best 🇬🇧.
Country machinery llc in leola pa has a lot of parts new and used they rebuild pickers too
I have a 2 row corn picker in my shed.
I'm in Wisconsin as well.
Great job
Thanks for posting
Country Machine in Lancaster County Pa is a good source for parts.
Considering the weather challenges, your corn turned out well. Ours was variable depending if it was darker soil or droughty knobs. Just didn't get the rains in late July and August here in N Central Ohio that would've filled out corn ears and bean pods better. Sure was nice not to have muddy conditions at harvest time though.
Vegetable oil for the rubber rollers
There’s a new idea corn picker at Roeders in Dubuque iowa. Looks really nice. Be worth to give them a call
@@Tom-n5p4j sorry, but it's been sold.
Roeder Implement in Dubuque Iowa has one on their inventory reduction sale coming up I think the Saturday after Thanksgiving it is by far the nicest mounted new idea picker I have ever seen. it's listed with Powers Auction Service
@@linkjohn7867 sorry to say. But it's been sold
George, I got some of those fingers they're called ear forwarders from an outfit in my home state here in Pennsylvania called keiters farm equipment they are in Halifax PA. I'd rather imagine if you Google and they would come up hope that helps
There's one on Craigslist with extra parts in Winona. Not too far from you guys
Great videography, thank for sharing.
Hope you find another picker or parts. Love the scenery.
Also, Oliver sold in excellent mounted, corn picker, and since you have at 1650 with a narrow front, you could mount, an Oliver picker on it. Pole type picker should use the same snapping rollers. I see where a guy north of Dubuque told you about a picker for sale. If you get other offers, I’d buy everyone you can get now before they wind up in the scrap been melted down for scrap steel.
Check out a good machine shop. That can fabricate parts. We have had good luck with that sort of thing we just bring a used part in and ask if they can make such a thing. Some of our obsolete John Deere equipment because Paustenbach Equipment over the years. I'm thinking that 656 is ready to shed the picker pretty soon.
Enjoyed watching these videos about you all get in your corn make sure better than using a corn scoop
Thanks for sharing the video. Really enjoy them. Nice looking job of picking corn. I'll look in the shed and see if I have any parts left to send you. I think I don't but I will look. That's the trouble they don't make machinery for the average farmers anymore. Especially corn pickers and combines that are 4-6 row units. Not everyone is planting a few thousand acres. Y'all stay safe out there working on the farm.
You might want to contact Yoder & Fry Auctions in Archbold, Ohio. They deal in older farm machinery and other stuff. They might be able to hook you up or keep an eye out for one.
Maybee you and your dad could do a segment next Spring on the Soil Series you farm on your farm.
What a view .
There are several businesses online that advertise parts for New Idea pickers including one that was featured in Farm Shop magazine called Country Machinery in Leona Pennsylvania. They said in the article if they couldn't find the parts from Agco, they would make them. I see 324 pull type pickers for sale for $1500. The dealers who have them are way over priced. My opinion for you guys is find a 324, use the mounted to open, split, and pick off the tight areas and pick off the bigger areas with the pull type. Put that 1466 on it. The rubber fingers are still available from Agco. The last time I priced them, they were $60.
Dad had a really really nice IH 234 picker that was mounted on a 706 & he junked it about 15 yrs ago. I asked him why & he said no one will want that thing. Ahhhh. Those 234 were great pickers, it didn’t shell in the field like the pull type new ideas he had
There is a place out by me I believe in Leola or Lititz PA that has a lot.of picker parts. Stuff for the busking bed, snap rollers etc. Amish run but they do have a website I believe.
I'll bet the poultry and mice (then cats) eat well for a few weeks around the farm yard. Thanks for posting the enjoyable videos.
Check out Trinity Dairy they have self propelled ear picker Check that out
Glad you had more then enough to fill the bin. Like I said my last boss had a two roe mounted but I think it was a IH but not sure. Don't know if he still has it but will check if you want. Plus Missouri may be to far to come to get it.
Thank you for the great video! Could you make a plan to upgrade to a tractor pulled picker? Are there more of those around? You might also get around the Amish community if you are looking for older stuff. Maybe get on the auctioneers notification lists, or even run some small ads of some bulletin boards with dairy groups, especially in remote areas of your state or neighboring states (I'm talking cheap of free ads or entries)
Sometimes your state ag dept. has newsletters with spaces for farmers to buy/sell/trade. Your cooperative extension office may be able to help as well. I bet you know about most of these. You just need to consider that they might work, and are worth the effort...especially if you have time in winter to do this.
Seen one in Iowa 600$ on marketplace
Good morning Gierek farms from Indiana
Nice corn crop
Boy you guys don't waste one single kernel feed is feed good job!
Somebody please find these guys a mint condition picker!
❤😊 JUST KEEP ASKING THE STUFF IS STILL THERE SOMEWHERE ❤😊
There's New Idea corn pickers on Craigslist all over the place all the time
My thoughts is if you could find a newer Uni-system then you could pick corn and combine with the same power unit. I really liked the old one we had, older than Trinity farms even.
On the husking bed. Instead of replacing fingers I took square tubing that would slide over original square shaft, cut to length between cotter pins, welded light angle iron to tubing and bolted old baler belting cut to length. My opinion is works way better then fingers ever did. Last time I checked for fingers they were outrageous in price if you could even find them
They're still available but like you said, $60 a piece last time I priced them.
Brilliant idea!! I can see this working very well.
A sidehill hitch? I wanna see a picture of that. Is it hydraulic? Factory or something your dad fabricated? Man that would have been HANDIEE!!!
If you had a sidehill hitch on a plow what a better job of plowing you could do, on a mounted picker is just genius
Sure do miss the farming life even all I did was work on them
Yeah, my neighbor has a mounted picker in his shed. Unclear of model or if it's for sale
Really interesting. I do enjoy your farming activities. A beautiful farm. 🌟🌟
My dad has a pull type he got new rubber fingers ill have to ask him were he got them
I sure hope you are able to over-winter pasture those stalks. Just think of all the cobs with corn that are hidden in those stalks. That was one thing hogs were good at, they found it all!
Stitzile farm equipment in Hamburg Pa brought all the parts when New Idea stopped building them they might still have some of them 😊
Still. Not only did they buy the parts, but they bought the entire inventory of new pickers. They advertised them for several years, until they were finally sold.
They probably had enough parts to sell them for along time it was about the time a lot of people started using more combines
If you know someone who is a machinest they can rebuild those snapping rolls. Ive known farmers who had that done