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South Central MN | What bangs up the ear the most on a picker isn't a husking bed, rather the deck plates (except for the old ones that didn't have any) and/or the snapping rolls. The butt of the cob is going to have busted kernels where the cob got banged up against the deck plates or rolls, fine for processing corn but not for fresh market.
Even the current Oxbo heads do this, with the exception of those designed to mimic hand picking.
The knife rolls on Oxbo heads are designed to trim down the cob shank, as processing corn cannot have long shanks or parts of the shank get cut off by the cutters in the plant and it can end up in the can. Also deck plates are run far wider than a normal combine, one to get rid of the shank, second, it sorts out some unusable ears and they just slide on through the gap.
Now I think if you could get it to cut off the stalk at the base, and pull the plant upwards at a reasonably slower speed through a set of deck plates you might have something as it would bend the cob down and break the shank off.
Edited by MNfarmer85 8/4/2020 00:57
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Converting a corn picker to sweet corn????
