IH #20 mounted corn picker

[farmallboy15]

are there many of these out there? what is the value of one in original condition with all the pieces? they were made for the farmall H, am i correct? thanks

 

[Leroy]

They fit both the H & M and for use no value but would be a great item for shows. I have the owners manual for them but never had the picker.

 

[farmallboy15]

why do you say for use no value? were they not very effecient or...?

 

[IH fan]

(quoted from post at 09:10:36 10/30/10) why do you say for use no value? were they not very effecient or...?

If I'm not confused about the models, they were a "snapper", meaning they had no husking rollers to remove the husks from the ears. They were better than nothing, but did not do a good job of cleaning the ears. I know the 24 was a snapper and the 2M, 2ME and 2MH had husking beds and did a much better job (just not as good as a JD 227).

 

[randy hall]

a #24 picker is not just a snapper. it has the husking rolls as extensions on the snapping rolls, just like a 227 john deere picker. they didn"t do the best.

 

[farmallboy15]

i have a manual for a No. 24 picker. is the primary differnce between these two is that the 20 doesn't have the huskers?

 

[IH fan]

(quoted from post at 12:30:54 10/30/10) a #24 picker is not just a snapper. it has the husking rolls as extensions on the snapping rolls, just like a 227 john deere picker. they didn"t do the best.

Not sure what you mean by "extentions on the snapping rolls". Were there only 2 husking rolls as part of the snapping rolls? The 227 JD had more than "extentions" of the snapping rollers... it had what was called a "husking bed" behind and above the snapping rolls. Dad had 2 227s and we did custom picking. Everyone we picked for said they did a better job than any they had seen.

 

[sd pete]

237 had a husking bed.

 

[Leroy]

Designed for 60-70 bu per acre corn and no husking bed, you would never find any parts for one if you had it and needed some as that picker would be 60 years old. Also for 40-42" rows.

 

[Leroy]

The 227 Deere picker had 4 long husking rolls per row, 2 wood and 2 rubber, and it did as good or better on husking than the Oliver pickers that were noted as good huskers.

 

[Anonymous-0]

The number 20 picker was built in the '30s and had a husking bed, nunber 22 pickers made in late '30s also had a husking bed.

 

[IH fan]

(quoted from post at 18:32:43 10/30/10) The 227 Deere picker had 4 long husking rolls per row, 2 wood and 2 rubber, and it did as good or better on husking than the Oliver pickers that were noted as good huskers.

That's the way I remember the 227 husking bed.... the New Idea with the husking bed on a "trailer" behind the tractor was also supposed to be pretty good.

 

[soybeanjoe]

We had a #24 back in the day that we ran on an "H". It didn't do a very good job of getting the husks off the ears. We put corn up in round Behlen wire cribs that held 2,000 bu of ear corn each. I can remember several times have to use dynamite to break the corn loose, corn rakes or a power rake would just bounce off the ears.

Maybe the 24 had a little more capacity than the #20. Back then we raised a lot of 140 - 150 bpa corn and I even have some plaques & newspaper articles where we had 175 bpa corn a couple times. Pretty much unheard of back then. The old H & #24 handled it but the going was slow, usually 1st gear. In l;ighter corn we could run in 2nd gear.

After the #24 we ran a 2MH on a SM for a couple years before going to shelling corn with a combine in the mid '60s. There was a lot of difference in what the 2MH would do compared to the #24. Though I never did like sitting down in between all those fast moving chains on the 2MH and all the dirt & dust. With the #24 you sit up above most everything.