Corn Harvester 35 Found
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Topic: Corn Harvester 35 Found
Posted By: rhettduke
Subject: Corn Harvester 35 Found
Date Posted: 13 May 2016 at 2:33pm
   I have a AC Corn Harvester 35 that has spent the last 35 or so years under an open side pole barn on my fathers property. For some reason he thought is worthwhile to shield from the elements while other equipment that he used was left to the full force of Mother Natures sun and rain. Tires are past dry rotted and belts are shot but otherwise unit seems complete. Any advice on what can be done to check it further ?  |
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Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 13 May 2016 at 9:20pm
| looks like it's in pretty good condition, wonder how hard it would be to find the belts that could/would run it? |
Posted By: rhettduke
Date Posted: 13 May 2016 at 9:41pm
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Certainly wish I could offer some idea on size and quantity on belts but I'm clueless. It needs a home with someone who has a parts manual ! |
Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 13 May 2016 at 10:11pm
| I see a blower but I don't see any husking rolls. Are they located just behind the snapping rolls or doesn't it have husking rolls? |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 4:34am
| appears it uses the larger flat gathering chains like on the older corn heads. they are stil available. appears there are also snapping rolls on it also! I've never seen one of these before, i'm guessing not many around! DON'T SCRAP IT! it's rare! |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 4:36am
| I wish it was closer to me, i'd buy it! |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 4:45am
| i'm with Doug on the husking rolls too! and maybe a chain missing that carries the ears back to the cross auger? that is one neat machine! |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 4:46am
| the extra hitch behind, must have pulled something to knock the stalks down behind? |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 4:48am
| that would be a fun restore! |
Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 6:29am
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The hitch on back is for pulling a wagon, SHAMELESS. The wagon is then pulled to the crib where it is unloaded via an Armstrong wagon unloader. |
Posted By: KenBWisc
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 6:58am
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Corn Picker
------------- '34 WC #629, '49 G, '49 B, '49 WD, '62 D-19, '38 All Crop 60 and still hunting! |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 7:19am
| that appears to be just a snapper, not a husker. Dads old case had a hitch centered like that, it was used to pull the wagon down the road, that way you did not take up the whole road. That hitchs shorter than the one on dads, if you put a wagon behind it I wonder if the elevator would clear the wagon when turning? |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 7:30am
| I have been here thinking about this. I - at one time had a parts book for 1, I bought a whole bunch of old books from a closed AC dealership. I will try to remember to look when I get off work this afternoon. If I do and I can find this post, you could have it for the cost of shipping. We ship stuff from home 6 days a week via US post office. If I can remember I will post back late today. |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 8:19am
Tom is right It's a snapper, not a husker. ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
HD6GTOM wrote:Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 9:20am
| I didn't think about wagon transport hitch, I saw the main hitch for field use. |
Posted By: redline
Date Posted: 14 May 2016 at 7:17pm
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I would really like to have one of those in my collection-but Tallassee is probably a long way from me. I don't know that the owner has said it was for sale, either. What a great find. Opposite of you, I have a book but, sadly, no picker. Maybe someday???? ------------- If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done! |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 15 May 2016 at 1:57am
| he said "it needs a home"! |
Posted By: Hubnut
Date Posted: 15 May 2016 at 5:16am
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Guys, how big is this corn husker/picker? Compare it to a tractor size. Is this trailerable?
------------- 1940 B "Lucy" 1941 B w/ Woods L59 "Flavia" 1942 B w/ finish mower "Dick" 1941 C w/ 3-point "Maggie" 1947 C SFW w/ L306 "Trixie" 1972 314H |
Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 16 May 2016 at 7:08am
| None of these had husking beds on them. They were both snapper and husker models, but even the huskers only had 2 rolls that the corn rode up and back on it's way to the cross auger. From what I"ve seen, they really didn't husk much. Now that the rubber is all hard and dry, I bet the husk even less. They are not very big and would be trailerable. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 16 May 2016 at 7:26am
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I took the elevator off and hauled mine home on a 16 foot car hauler. It's too wide to load without a backhoe or a couple loaders but will just fit half a tire on a deck over trailer. The snapping rolls are the husking rolls. Some had little rubber plugs to help husk. I had only seen one till I got mine and then they seem to show up everywhere. I sold mine to a collector because I lost storage space and have a good Wood Brothers one row here that will out pick and out husk the Allis  Notice the tire hanging over the right front of the trailer. I had blocks under the frame.   d ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 16 May 2016 at 7:46am
Belts can be bought anywhere that sells belts, just gotta know what size you want  I would oil all chains and find a grease fitting for anything else that moves. Try and turn everything over by hand before putting belts on. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: rhettduke
Date Posted: 16 May 2016 at 1:23pm
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Hey Guys, Thanks for all the replies. A bit more about this picker and baler......The reason they finally came out from under the pole barn is the to do some work on the barn itself. Guy doing the barn work remembered similar equipment from his youth farming with his Dad. We believe there should be some value to the items . And yes I would like to sell them to someone who intends to restore or part them out. I understand this forum has a "For Sale" section but right now I'm trying to figure what I have and how much would be a feasible sale price. I''ll be talking to a gentleman this evening who can give us a price for delivery based on loaded mile or similar. I'm not trying to retire on them.....not interested in scrapping either. |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 16 May 2016 at 2:41pm
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These did have somewhat of a husking capability. There are a bunch of rubber buttons in the snapping rolls. I had one of these at one time but have since sold it. I had collected enough NOS rubber plugs to restore the husking ability. It looked to be quite a project to take the rolls apart and replace the plugs. All the picker NOS parts I had went to the new owner. I will look to see if I still may have a parts book.
------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: Armand(AZ)
Date Posted: 16 May 2016 at 4:16pm
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I built a model of the 35 a few months ago. As I recall the overall length from the hitch pin to the end of the elevator was 18 feet and it was 8 feet wide at the axle. There is only one gathering chain on the left side of the snapping rollers that moves the ears back to the auger. Doug, my dad had one of them Armstrong unloaders.......ME!!! LOL |
Posted By: Bull
Date Posted: 17 May 2016 at 5:17pm
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Dad had a 33 picker with the rubber rolls. To replace the rubber plugs he would drive a hay hook into them and pry them out, then coat the new ones with dish soap and drive them in. They came in a cloth drawstring bag, as a kid I thought that was pretty neat. I would take the old ones, put them in the bag and add it to my "collection". That was a great time to be a kid. ------------- WD45 Diesel, RC,CA,IB, B, G, 616, Early B-10, D-10, Terra Tiger, 95G spreader, SC blade |
Posted By: JimIA
Date Posted: 17 May 2016 at 10:27pm
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There were snapper versions of these, but I have never seen one. As far as I know the snapper units had no husking ability on the rolls. Must have been smooth metal rolls? Do you have pictures of the rolls? AC never had a good capacity good husking machine. BUT, look at the snapping rolls and stripper plates on a modern day corn head and you will see their influence. AC pickers were also good corn savers when the stripper plates were set correctly. Jim ------------- An open eye is much more observant than an open mouth |
Posted By: rhettduke
Date Posted: 18 May 2016 at 12:41pm
Jim, Please excuse my ignorance but I'm not sure if the rolls you are referring to are actually part of the Harvester or if they are separate. If they are part of the unit point me in the right direction and I'll get pictures. If they are add on I'm pretty sure I don't have have them. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 18 May 2016 at 7:12pm
The rolls are on the machine now. The front half snapped the ear off the stalk and the back half did what little husking it could depending on if it had the rubber buttons or not. The spring loaded door between the front and back was to hold the ear down against the rolls so it could husk a bit. The problem with that area in corn today, is when you have 10 foot tall stalks and the stalk breaks off above the ear and doesn't get pull down by the snapping rolls. It will jam up in that little 4 inch square hole it has to get thru. Some later pickers had a set of fingers in the middle of the rolls ( kinda like chicken plucker fingers) to pull any stalk and leaves thru so it can be ejected out the back. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: JimIA
Date Posted: 18 May 2016 at 9:36pm
Dont excuse yourself for wanting to know more! Thats what forums are all about! I will try to load a picture from a brochure. Like Charlie said the back half of the snapping rolls were the husking rolls. Sometimes one of the husking portions of the rolls were completely rubber coated and the other on had the husking plugs in them. Also as stated the 35 pull types had the rotary feeder wheel in the throat but was four rubber flaps with metal teeth bolted on the end, these flaps rotate helping material through. I see yours had the drive there for it which makes it a 35. Many people think they have a 35 pull type but it is actually just a "One row pull type corn harvester". The 35 designation didnt come along until they had the rotary feeder in the throat. Hopefully the brochure picture helps. The 35 pull type was just basically half of the 33 mounted 33 picker, many parts are interchangeable. uploads/433/33_picker_ad.jpg" rel="nofollow - uploads/433/33_picker_ad.jpg  ------------- An open eye is much more observant than an open mouth |