234 IH picker

[KY]

Correct me if I'm wrong but some 234s had no stripper plates over the snapping rolls , some had stripper plates over the snapping rolls but no live points , and some had stripper plates and live points ?

 

[used red MN]

This may help you.
CNHI IH 234 picker diagrams

 

[the tractor vet]

well i can't answer that question as i shyed away from them because they were a pain to mount and dismount and they were heavy . If i was going to buy corn pickers i always went with the New Idea's when people were still looking for pickers , at one time i was even making the mounting axle plates for the square and the hex so we could mount them on I H's when a buddy and i were in the buy all we could find along with M's thru 706's to mount them on and ship them off to sales . For two years they were hot item's .

 

[Donald in MN]

you could get snapping rolls fluted stripper rolls or straight stripper rolls. we had the straight stripper rolls just like a combine header. it was mounted on a 706 with a 1000 rpm drive that really picked fast. you could also get 540 drive. the 234 was easy to mount. once the brackets were attached to the frame and axles the arms for the fast hitch were hooked to the lift on the sub frame . we usually left the sub frame hooked to the husking bed or the sheller. you backed up to the sub frame and the arms lifted it up and was latched . then you went to the front and lowered the arms and drove into the front and lifted the unit up and latched the arms that held it to the husking bed or sheller and hooked up the drive shafts. the husking unit could be changed to the sheller in minutes with the tractor doing all the lifting . we could easily pick at 4-5 mph. with those dakon gravity wagons with side boards

 

[fastfarmall]

I have no idea if it had stripper plates, but did you read about Lori Parkin,[a hair dresser] bought and restored a mounted picker, with the help of her husband, and picked corn with it at Rantoul Ill,in 2021. It was in The Jan-Feb issue of Red Power Magazine.

 

[Donald in MN]

yes i saw that she did a very good job. my dad had 2 234s one with stripper plates and one with fluted strippers. the first one i rebuilt once. he bought the secound one because the first one was wore out. between my dad and grandpa we picked over 200 acres of corn each year.dad eventually traded both for a uni system

 

[DR. EVIL]

Lori's picker is a 2M-H, on a Super M-TA.