Corn picker vs corn snaper
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Topic: Corn picker vs corn snaper
Posted By: im4racin
Subject: Corn picker vs corn snaper
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2019 at 6:41pm
| What is the difference between a 35 corn picker and the 36 corn snaper? |
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Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2019 at 9:08pm
| Back in the day there were pickers that had shucking beds and ones that didn't. I'm guessing the snappers didn't. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2019 at 7:22am
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All early Allis pickers had long rollers. The front half did the snapping, and the back half did the husking. Later models had the same rollers, but added rubber plugs in the back half to grip the husk and help pull t off. Later models also had a set of fingers to help pull the ears and husk thru the narrow opening between the front and rear half of the rollers. Other makes had Snappers that just snapped the ear off and elevated it into a wagon, or had husking beds that removed much of the husk. ------------- 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: Trinity45
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2019 at 7:26am
| Do not know about the Allis pickers but where I grew up a snapper just popped the ear off the stalk left the husk on, a picker actually husked the ear as well, we had both for a while. |
Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2019 at 7:29am
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IIRC the husks were good when grinding feed, get more food value ------------- |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2019 at 7:36am
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Husks added fiber to the ground corn, but if you filled a crib with corn that had a lot of husk, it better be pretty well dried first. I helped the neighbor shell out a wire crib once, that was filled after they lost most of the use of the husking bed. I guess they didn't think they had time to fix it before they filled the crib. It was a real nightmare, getting corn to fall down. We had a cave dug back nearly 3/4 way across the crib before it finally caved in, and sent a cloud of green mold dust up in the air about a 100 feet. ------------- 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: Tbone95
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2019 at 7:39am
| Yeah, husks made for mold for sure. The more worn out our picker got, the more mold we’d get. Not healthy for the cows. Often picked in the snow, so there was moisture added even if it was dry to start with. |
Posted By: im4racin
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2019 at 8:33am
| so a 36 would be a sweet corn picker? |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2019 at 3:51pm
NO!Both were made for field corn. ------------- 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 |
im4racin wrote:Posted By: TomYaz
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2019 at 5:56am
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My Dad made us hand husk what the NI corn picker didnt husk...one wagon at a time. 10 ton per year. Joy.... ------------- If its not an All-Crop, it all crap! |