M&W Super snoot @ Half Century in 2011. Probably none of them ever looked this clean, even when new.








Here's our Dad on a non-super-snoot in 1953. Our uncle was still in Korea at the time. I believe this was a 2ME picker. Our later 2MH had a higher leaf guard on the front snoot & did a better job of protecting grills.


       

Had John Deere semi-mounted 101, one row picker on a 1950 JD "B".  It was better than doing it the other way(picking by hand).

Father in law did it that way until he retired in the late 80's.   Mounted picker on an M.   I always said I'd have nightmares about sitting in the middle of all those moving parts.   It never bothered him and he never had any trouble

Any time I was home from school, Dad put me on the picker.  M and every model of mounted picker IH made, Dad traded pickers every year, as used picker were very good trade in value, and he felt  the boot on a new one was cheap compared to repairs.  Later, we did run some pickers multiple years, through the IH 400 to the 806 gas with small tires to power the mounted #10 and later the #15 sheller.  Dad was one of the first in the area to shell corn with the picker mounted sheller, it took lots of power.  So much power that we added at least a gallon milk jug full of water to the radiator of the 400 with every load of corn.  806 had enough power and cooling capacity to handle the load the picker and sheller put on the power unit.

I was always scared to death of all the cogs and chains I sat in the midde of, one slip and parts of my body would be removed.  However, I still have the parts I was born with, having kept myself close. 

Dad put me on the picker as he thought running it was easier than unloading the corn and hooking the wagons.  I liked the idea he trusted me with the picker, but it was often a hot and dirty job, and back in those days you weren't a "man" unless you ate the dirt without a mask.  I also had several lung problems in those days, but breathe well today.