My first year picking, my grandpa bought the a new in 51. I picked up the picker 2 years ago and rebuilt it this summer. It was a lot of work making my own gathering chains and conveyer chains but I enjoyed it
That looks like a good pair working in the field. Nice barge wagon to match the tractor-picker. How many acres did you pick this fall? Is all of your corn ground planted with 38" rows?
Did you modify the chutes on the stalk ejectors by giving them a twist?
Other than the "waffle style" snapping rolls, and the optional stalk ejectors, and the hooded elevator, what other differences were there between the late 227 and the 237?
My Dad had the new style snapping rolls installed on his 227, which was mounted on a 1950 JD 'A'
The last year he farmed, he had applied 200 lbs per acre, (actual) NH3, "just to see what would happen", and picking became a 1st and 2cd gear job, the corn in the wagon elevator was just a solid sea of yellow. The corn was all Funk's "G" single and triple cross seed, planted about 6 inches apart, with a JD 495A planter, equipped with liquid fertilizer, and herbicide and pesticide boxes.
Oh, and THANKS FOR THE PICTURES. They brought back LOTS of visual and sound filled memories.
-- Edited by Art From De Leon on Thursday 28th of November 2013 08:04:06 PM
Im just familiar with the 237. My dad had 2 227s. I did have trouble with stalk ejectors. Would like all information u got. Thanks
I am just curious as to whether they were adjustable, as the pickers I have seen that are equipped with them dump the stalks over the back of the hopper, wheras yours dump them out just above the husk/trash augers.
We didn't modify the chutes and they appear to look the same in my parts book. I will say they plug up alot which I have to figure out still. I also got a nice scar on a finger cause of them plugging up.
Some differences my dad has pointed out between the 227 and 237 are the 227 only had 2 gathering chains per side, 237 has 3. The mounting brackets for a 237 are universal for all makes and models of the that time, whereas a 227 brackets were for a specific model. The 237 uses a cylinder to lift and lower.
I also had to run in 1st gear but some of that is due to I need to overhaul my a this winter. Shes lost a couple horses and when you only got 38 that can make a difference
Nice pics - almost looks like it came out of a John Deere 237 Picker brochure with that barge box behind it!
As to the stalk ejector chutes, they had both the angled ones and the straight out the back ones on these pickers, depending on the age of the picker.
The earlier ones had the ones that dumped the trash off to the side. These machines also had the Multi-Luber mounted on the insides of the first elevators.
The later models had the stalk chutes out the back and had the Multi-Lubers mounted on the top of the first elevators.
This was done so there would be enough room inside the first elevators to mount the picker on a tractor with a Roll-Gard on it
-- Edited by jdtom on Monday 6th of January 2014 01:57:23 PM
-- Edited by jdtom on Tuesday 25th of March 2014 08:33:12 PM
Love the pictures, it gets me excited to get my 237 going and hopefully pick some corn this fall. However with a 2 year old and twins due in May/June my time will be limited...
I have seen later 227's with the fluted snapping rolls like the 237's. One that I need to go get near me has them, but not the "grease banks"(multi-luber). It has a 50 sheller that goes with it. I was told it was new around 1959-60. It has the early mounts for the 2-cylinders instead of the "universal mounts" for the New Generation tractors.
-- Edited by treekiller on Saturday 22nd of March 2014 07:39:13 PM
-- Edited by treekiller on Saturday 22nd of March 2014 07:52:06 PM
I have seen later 227's with the fluted snapping rolls like the 237's. One that I need to go get near me has them, but not the "grease banks"(multi-luber). It has a 50 sheller that goes with it. I was told it was new around 1959-60. It has the early mounts for the 2-cylinders instead of the "universal mounts" for the New Generation tractors.
-- Edited by treekiller on Saturday 22nd of March 2014 07:39:13 PM
-- Edited by treekiller on Saturday 22nd of March 2014 07:52:06 PM
My Dad had the 237 style snapping rolls installed on his 227. (What was the advantage of the waffle type, vs the spiral type?)
I used the "universal style" mount on my JD '60' with my 237. You could adjust the width by loosening the bolts on the center tube, and the hydralic cylinder took the place of the rockshaft linkage.
-- Edited by Art From De Leon on Saturday 22nd of March 2014 08:47:53 PM
I think the idea was that the fluted rolls chewed up the stalks a bit better and didn't shell quite as bad. Also, they probably worked better with the 1,000 rpm drive.... That made the 237 a corn eating machine on our 3020.
The universal mount was an improvement, having the cylinder eliminated the clumsy linkage of the old mounts.
-- Edited by treekiller on Sunday 23rd of March 2014 08:51:32 PM
