2M-H corn picker

[Heat Houser]

Bought this one near central Iowa and hauled it home today. We had one on our 560 Farmall when I was a kid and this one will go back on it for parades and for show. Plan on fixing sheet metal and giving it a paint job. Our original 2M-H is still on the "home place" but sitting outside. It will donate parts for this one.

 

[sd pete]

I have many hours sitting on one of those. I sure don"t miss the noise. Good find it looks to be in good condition.
 

[RPM1941]

I used to set-up these new, can tell at a glance it a later serial number, the cross auger goes in thru the side is clue.
 

[Kirk Affeldt]

The picker looks like to be pretty good, considering the age of it. Nice find! My dad had one and I remember helping him put it on and take it off of the M. I don't miss that!! He traded the 2MH for a NI 319-so much easier to mount. The neighbor up the road had one on a 560 and my dad tells me he used to have the sheller for it.I know of another neighbor that has one mounted to an F-20 that has been in the shed for the past 30-40 years. Maybe one day when the farm sale happens, I will acquire that one.

Is that a corn picker cart/mover under it?
 

[Heat Houser]

The picker cart is kinda like the Johnny Cash song. Noble 4 row rear cultivator main beam, New Holland front half of a running gear, a piece of a wagon hoist, part of a Case wheel disk, and other odds and ends that I had laying around.

It is a tricycle, with a single wheel in the front.

Mounted the picker, pulled it on the trailer and drove home.
 

[NEKS]

Remember each fall mounting one on dads M. The ole M was pretty bare bone before driving into it.