My new corn binder

Picked this one up at an auction last winter in Colorado. I'm just now finally getting around to posting pictures. It was all froze up when I got it, but after about 2 gallons of PB blaster and some careful work with a large pipe wrench and a little hammering, she turns just fine. I've got new wood and a couple small parts coming for it, but right now she's in a pretty sad state of dis-assembly. But if the wood comes in soon, she may be ready for harvest before I know it.

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Where is the bundle conveyor? You will need that to move the bundles out of the way so you can make the next round.
 
You don't need the conveyor, You will be able to drive past the last row as they tip out to the left on the binder. BTDT
 
Bundle carrier is for putting them on a wagon. As was said, they'll be well out of your way as they drop from the bare binder.

A bundle carrier is also a good way to discover your gates are 6" narrower than you thought! Ouch! :lol:
 
A bundle carrier IS NOT for putting them on a wagon but for getting then far enough to side that you do not run over then doing the next round. A lot of the Amish around me do not use them but the left horse walkes over the bundles. What is used to load on a wagon is called a bundle elevator. Also there were tall corn attachments avaible and also a soybean attachment. And the book for the Deere I had was laying on my desk and this is out of it. There was a power bundle carrier but also what they called a finger bundle carrier. I have used a binder to shread corn for dairy cow feed.
 
The binder is like mine, but mine has the carrier. Drop 4 on the carrier before running them off. Next round drop 4 beside it to save walking to make a shock. Same as shocking grain bundles.
 
(quoted from post at 09:10:06 09/26/14) The binder is like mine, but mine has the carrier. Drop 4 on the carrier before running them off. Next round drop 4 beside it to save walking to make a shock. Same as shocking grain bundles.

That's the way we always did it. I hated shocks frozen to the ground.
 
My friend had one like it, we used it to bundle
sorghum stalks.

Then carried the stalks to the crusher mill to
extract the juice, then cooked off the molasses.

The stalk cutter worked great, as I remember, very
little problems with it. We loaded the shocks right off the cutter onto a trailing flat bed wagon.

I assume in the old days they stacked the bundled
corn stalks in shocks an left them in the field.

This machine would have made that job much easier.

Did they use stalks for bedding???
 
(quoted from post at 10:59:37 09/26/14) My friend had one like it, we used it to bundle
sorghum stalks.

Then carried the stalks to the crusher mill to
extract the juice, then cooked off the molasses.

The stalk cutter worked great, as I remember, very
little problems with it. We loaded the shocks right off the cutter onto a trailing flat bed wagon.

I assume in the old days they stacked the bundled
corn stalks in shocks an left them in the field.

This machine would have made that job much easier.

Did they use stalks for bedding???

We shocked corn and a lot of cane. It was used for cattle feed.
 
My first memory of corn shocks was being out in the field watching the men. I soon discovered that I could crawl inside the shock and with my imagination it became a teepee or a fort of some kind. I was too little to lift a bundle, but enjoyed playing in the shocks until I did get big enough to handle bundles - then it wasn't so much fun anymore.
 
(quoted from post at 08:47:34 09/26/14) A bundle carrier IS NOT for putting them on a wagon but for getting then far enough to side that you do not run over then doing the next round. A lot of the Amish around me do not use them but the left horse walkes over the bundles. What is used to load on a wagon is called a bundle elevator. Also there were tall corn attachments avaible and also a soybean attachment. And the book for the Deere I had was laying on my desk and this is out of it. There was a power bundle carrier but also what they called a finger bundle carrier. I have used a binder to shread corn for dairy cow feed.

Bundle "elevator", my bad. That's what lack of coffee will do to a guy. I've used a binder quite a lot and put a lot of corn in the silo with a binder and a big Case blower. Not a bad way to do a few acres if you have the help. Pulling a binder with a tractor, the bundles will be clear of the path of the tractor, at least on a McD binder like I used.
 
Fed fodder in manger in barn to milk cows one time a day, what they did not eat by next feeding went out for bedding with straw the second bedding of the day.
 

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