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Sugarmaker 
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 7:05am |
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Headed out to a auction today. and one of the items is a 1 row Allis pull behind picker. Cant find a lot about them. Seen a YouTube video of a WD45, this picker and a Allis wagon.
So what are they worth and does anyone collect them? Seen rough values from a S100 to under $2000.
No I don't need a corn picker!
Also was a Allis running gear under a old (non Allis) galvanized gravity box. Perfect combo for the picker!:)
Regards,
Chris
Edited by Sugarmaker - 23 Jul 2016 at 7:06am
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DougS
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 7:19am |
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Is there is enough old stuff at this auction that it will draw collectors? If not, the picker may well sell for scrap prices. Look it over carefully. If the chains are rusted out or worn out you may end up putting a lot of $$ into it if you were to restore it.
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Pat the Plumber CIL
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 7:41am |
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Wagon is worth more than the picker
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 8:36am |
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I just hate to think how LONG it would take to pick an acre of corn ONE row at a time....sigh...
this from the guy with a Gleaner A, 10' head on it, and a 1/4 ac veggie field !
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 9:15am |
 jaybmiller wrote:
I just hate to think how LONG it would take to pick an acre of corn ONE row at a time....sigh...
this from the guy with a Gleaner A, 10' head on it, and a 1/4 ac veggie field !
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Think how long it would take without a picker, one ear at a time. 
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 9:44am |
Bought my first worn out #7 New Idea picker in the early 80's, I had about 6 acres of corn to pick. My Dad raised he** about spending $75.oo when I could have husked it out by hand "like we did when I was a kid"! I have several husking pins but I prefer the Picker, Good Luck Chris not many of them left...Harvey
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 2:25pm |
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Folks,
Thanks for the comments!
I did not bid on either the picker or the wagon.
Here's the final numbers:
The picker which was in VERY good shape went for around $250.
The running gear and gravity box, again in very good shape, went for around $950.
I may have some pictures coming.
Regards,
Chris
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 3:31pm |
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We used an old Dearborn/Woods one-row picker. That was more than enough when it was coupled with an Armstrong unloader.
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 4:35pm |
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I wanted one of those pickers for awhile. Almost bought a really good one for about $1000. The more I thought about the more I thought I'd rather have a new idea. I don't think the allis picked clean at all. And probably can't get any parts.
Grandma talks about hand picking when she was a kid. Said after school her, her brother, and dad would go out to pick. Her Dad took 2 rows and her and her brother each took one. I told her they must not have been very good. ;)
They threw the ears into the horse drawn wagon. Dad gave voice command to the horse as they went.
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 5:21pm |
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So the $250 was a good buy. IF you wanted one! Most folks standing around it said they were a snapper not a husker! and if the stalks were damp all the husks stayed on. My neighbor bid to $200. He is a Allis guy and didn't want to see it go to cheap. I think he wishes he would have bid more?
There was a pretty nice Farmall M that went for $1900.
And a little Farmall cub/ lowboy (offset) square grill, with a IH belly mower, that went for $4000!
I need to load up some pictures of the little Allis C that is about 10 miles from me.
Regards,
Chris
Edited by Sugarmaker - 23 Jul 2016 at 8:32pm
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 5:43pm |
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I'd think 250 is really good. I can't find a 1 row 323 new idea for under 2000.
The allis would be more for show than useful. The pictures I saw about 75% of the corn was husked. I bet it do poor in 175 bu corn. But I think there's so cute behind a WD.
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016 at 9:51pm |
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I picked 1 acre at a time. Back then corn was not ready to harvest in September. It was ready when the ground was frozen, December or January. If the ground was not frozen, February would work too.
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Posted: 24 Jul 2016 at 12:47am |
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As a kid in the 50's, I 've opened fields by hand and we had two pickers, a Woods and an International, both one rows. One picked good in the morning and the other in the afternoon, but I can't remember which was which anymore.
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Posted: 24 Jul 2016 at 5:29am |
My uncle had a new Idea #7 back in the 1950's he and my dad shared. Was a good picker for the day. When dad bought a bigger farm in 1952 and moved about 3 hours from uncle dad bought a Allis one row that was not a husking picker. It worked fine and dad liked the husk on any way as said made the grain better for the cows when the husk were ground with the corn and oats. Round about 1955 day bought a used mounted picker and installed it on his WC similar to this one  He used it till in the mid 1960's. I bought a Massey Harris # 5 for $5.00. This was at a auction away from farming country and they could not even get a bid on it.  Al
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Posted: 24 Jul 2016 at 5:54am |
GARY(OH/IN) wrote:
As a kid in the 50's, I 've opened fields by hand and we had two pickers, a Woods and an International, both one rows. One picked good in the morning and the other in the afternoon, but I can't remember which was which anymore. |
Our Woods tended to husk better if the stalks were damp.
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Posted: 24 Jul 2016 at 6:10pm |
DougS wrote:
GARY(OH/IN) wrote:
As a kid in the 50's, I 've opened fields by hand and we had two pickers, a Woods and an International, both one rows. One picked good in the morning and the other in the afternoon, but I can't remember which was which anymore. |
Our Woods tended to husk better if the stalks were damp.
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It was one way or the other (don't remember)but following Doug's info our Woods did better in the morning and uncles mounted 2 row AC did better in the afternoon.
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Posted: 25 Jul 2016 at 9:19am |
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I started with a deere 18 when I was 13 or 14, then the year after, got a Oliver #5 I resurrected from the weeds. still have the deere, but haven't used it in a few years. got a New Idea 323 now, would love to have a 190 picker to put on the D-19!
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