A quick whatsit

Greg K

Well-known Member
Looking at this in a friend's shed. Reminds me of a silage chopper. It is still attached to a couple wooden legs, or what is left of legs. It had the same looking feeder roller as a silage chopper but I've never seen a stationary one.
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We have a similar one on the home farm. It had a hand crank but could also be powered, and had a two-setting adjustment for the length of cut. It also had a wooden feed table. We used it when I was young for cutting the garden's sweet corn stalks into feed, though that was more as an excuse to use it than a necessity, but I imagine a hundred years ago it would have been a useful tool for a small farm.
 
I can't see the pictures but I can imagine what it looks like. When I was a kid (early 1950's) the farmer across the road was still shocking corn. A crew of us would haul the shocks to the upstairs portion of his barn and stack them in there. Then he (we)would snap the ears off the stalks and husk them. He had some leather things like the palm of a glove with a hook embedded in the "glove". We'd run the "glove" down the side of the ear to cut the husk and them snap the ear out of the husk.

He then chopped the stalks for feed with a hand operated stalk chopper. He would spend large amounts of time during the winter husking and chopping, all by hand.

Ah, the good old days.

Tom in TN
 
Hey Greg,

Microsoft recently forced Windows 10 onto my computer. Now I can't display the pictures that you attached to your note. Do you know, right off hand, what format the pictures are in? If you can tell me that, I might be able to figure out what I need to do to display the pictures.

Thanks for any advice you can give.

Tom in TN
 
I'm not sure about format, but they are taken on a Samsung phone and uploaded from the same device. I'm not much help on the tech side of these things.
 
It's just a standard JPG picture. YT's been having some problems with pictures lately, possibly as part of the larger Internet attacks that have been going on the last couple of days, which may be contributing to your problem. Win 10 or any common browser should be able to display a JPG without any additional setup or configuration.
 
Go find youre happy local computer repair guy and tell him to remove 10 and put seven back! Know several people that it has been done. Much more happy.
 
Same thing happened to me. I went into 'programs and features' then into 'recently installed updates' (upper left corner) and then deleted everything except the security update and pictures are working again.
 
Greg,

I have no idea why but your pictures are now displaying perfectly. I went to WalMart this afternoon and bought some oil for changes in my tractors and pickup, and when I returned just now, the pictures were working.

I think that I have a new technology fix! Anytime my computer isn't working, I'll make a trip to WalMart and see if that fixes it.

Nice pic, by the way. I also think it's a stalk chopper.

Tom in TN
 
Looks like a "beet pulper". They were quite common in dairy barns 70 to 100 years ago. My grandfather's is in my shop??.the pulping mechanism is long gone but the stand is great for a radial arm saw. Farmers would grow a patch of sugar beets and pulp a few every day to topdressing the dairy animals' feed.
 
It is an early silage corn cutter. They where used when corn was still cut into shocks. You would cut some greener and run some each day to feed.
 
I've got one something like that. I used to use it for chopping cornstalks. I have another one that is somewhat simular for Mangle beets. Mangle beets are something like sugar beets and grow huge. I had some that would be almost 2' long and 8" in diameter. They are red and keep real well in the basement of the barn all winter long. The cows love them and many people around here would raise Mangle beets before silos became popular. I would cut the tops (leaves) off and feed them to the cows too and they would grow back again. In the fall I would pull them up and wash them and store them in the basement of the barn. I would then chop them up with a square point shovel, until I found a beet chopper and feed them to the cows. I think what you have is a stalk chopper and they work good for chopping corn stalks. Mine is motorized and works good for chopping sweet corn stalk after picking off the corn. The beet chopper is a little different. You put the beets in a trough on the side and the knives on the drum spin and slice the beets then they drop out below. Mangles and sugar beets make good feed in the winter for a small herd of cows. It's a lot of work but great feed. Mangle beet seed is still available in some of the seed catalogs.

Dick
 

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