Sweet corn picker

[Dave8N in Pa]

A guy called me about my corn picker and he wants to know if it will pick sweet corn. I never heard of anybody picking sweet corn. Any advise?

 

[IaGary]

If it has stripper plates over the snapping rolls it may work on sweet corn at a low rpm.

If no stripping plates it will be tough on the ears.

Gary

 

[stevob671]

In the "old" days they would use a regular picker minus the husking bed or just a conveyor in its place to move the cobs to the main elevator.
The newer more dedicated machines have elevators that raise and lower to minimize cob damage.

 

[Jim Myers]

They used to have sweetcorn pickers. My dad used to raise 80 acres of sweetcorn for Stokley-VanCamp. They brought a 2 row mounted sweetcorn picker for us to use on dads 47 JD A. It was a lot faster than 2 bus loads of Mexicans to pick by hand.

 

[donjr]

BFO neighbor has a sweet corn snapper that works pretty good, but it's specially made for sweet corn. He plants about fifty acres and supplies quite a few places with fresh corn every day plus his own stand....

 

[fixerupper]

Why did they worry about damaging the cobs?

 

[504]

Joan of Ark cannery in Hoopston IL had them strung out to different farmers in the 60,and 70s. It was quit a site, watching trucks loads of sweet corn dumped on the concrete slab, and then a 4020 with a dozer blade pushing it into the pit conveyor.

 

[Dave8N in Pa]

Thanks to everyone! By the way, how did you get that handle? Do you have a 504? I do and would like to talk to someone who is familiar with them.

 

[Nicholaus Sowder]

Hello Mr. Dave8N in Pa. I live in East Tennessee

 

[agonair]

I know IH had a sweet corn setup for the 234 pickers. Not sure what was involved, but the literature showed it.

 

[NEKS]

In the early 60's I seen a mounted picker on a tractor picking sweet corn in western Iowa. Couldn't believe. Wondered what they had to change to pick green ears.