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Dick

03-27-2001 08:12:36




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I saw a picture of a corn binder taken in the 30's. What was the corn binder uaed for. Dick




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Elden Denning

03-27-2001 09:06:59




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 Re: Old pictures in reply to Dick, 03-27-2001 08:12:36  
Corn binders cut the corn when it had matured enough to make silage or to be shocked in the field or stacked in the barn or a stack to await husking by machine or by hand. The machine cut the corn, then bundled it by wrapping a collection of cut stalks, usually about 10-12 inches in diameter and tying the bundle with twine. The bundle was usually carried by an integral carrier device until 4-5 bundles were accumulated then unloaded by a chain and raddle system incorporated into the carrier. This left a sort of windrow of bundles across the field perpendicular to the corn row direction. This windrow of bundles was usually "hand shocked" before long to give the corn a chance to dry further and protect it from the weather until it was hauled off and husked. The "shocked" corn is what you see in the amish cornfields that looks so neat. If the corn was to be immediately hauled from the field as it was cut for stacking somewhere or to be chopped at the silo for ensilage the corn binder was uusually equipped with a loading type elevating/carrier and a wagon was pulled alongside the binder to load up the corn as it was cut. Even with the binder's ability to cut, bind and
and move the cut bundles, the corn still had to be hand moved as it was loaded or shocked. Then it had to be chopped or husked which required more labor or machine or both before the harvesting process was complete.

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