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kippster

09-13-2005 10:37:41




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Hi Y'all. I just got a whole bunch of corn for free. When the fields are opened up for chopping, there is corn around the outside edge as usual, but if I want that corn, I can have it!! COOL!! Is there any particular way to shock corn so that it will dry and be able to store it outside like they did a long time ago?? How did they do that??? I'd like to be able to shell some of this corn and chop some of it for fodder.
Thanks for your help!!! Kippster

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Leroy

09-14-2005 06:12:46




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 Re: shocking corn in reply to kippster, 09-13-2005 10:37:41  
You ask how to get a shock with all cut corn, Use a shock horse to start it and to make that take like a tall (3 1/2'high) sawhorse that has a wide stance for the top (6') of space for material to lay on, take one set of legs off so that end lays on the ground then go up to about a foot and a half from the top and drill a hole in big enough to put a broom stick in. Now you are ready to start shocking, set it up with the broom stick in and put one arme full at each corner starting on opposite sides to ceep weight ballanced till you get it as large as you want, tie with baling twine then pull out the broom stick then pull out the horse and it will keep standing untill some brat pushes it over and just repeat the prosses over and over. My shock horse along with my binder and shreader are out in the barn now and have not been used since 59 but still workable

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James2

09-14-2005 05:56:38




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 Re: shocking corn in reply to kippster, 09-13-2005 10:37:41  
I opened many fields with a corn knife before running the chopper. Shocked only the corners, the remainder was laid between the next two rows and manually fed into the chopper as it drove thru the field. OSHA would have had a heart attack. When I started doing this at age 14, I very well knew to stay clear of the moving parts. Held the bundle nearly horizontal, and fed the butt end into the choppers throat. Fed in about a foot then it would self feed along with the row being chopped. In regards to the guestion, I hope you are in good shape or have a lot of help. Cutting corn with a knife and shocking is a lot of work. Be sure to wear a long sleeved shirt with a collar which can be turned up to protect your neck. Good leather gloves are also nice to have. Our shocks were not too sophisticated. Used about 6-8 stalks tied together at the top with a smaller stalk and spread at the bottom. Bundles were then "propped" in a balanced manner around this inner core until the shock reached the desired size. In the old days, shocks remained in the field until the ear was dry enough to crib.

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tim[in]

09-13-2005 16:09:10




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 Re: shocking corn in reply to kippster, 09-13-2005 10:37:41  
before binders and other fancy equipment, you used a corn knife['machete'] to cut the stalks. then tied them together with twine or a couple corn leavesthem take several bundles and tie them together or as i have done just lean the first ones together to form the basis of the shock. some would lean 4 stalks together from two adjoining rowsand tie the tops together to form a pyramid to start the shock. then cut the 4 stalks later one when you hauled the shocks in to the barm. then in winter when not busy with other things guys would shuck the corn . sometime they would have a husking bee.then the stalks were then fed as fodder either shredded or as i did whole.

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JMS/MN

09-13-2005 11:08:30




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 Re: shocking corn in reply to kippster, 09-13-2005 10:37:41  
Standing corn was cut with a corn binder to make shocks. Shocks were run through a corn shredder to remove the ears, and the residue was blown into a pile (fodder). Ears can be run through a corn sheller to get shelled corn. You asked about how to store corn---corn bundles, from the binder, are set up on edge, to make a shock. Maybe 6-8-10 of them in one shock. It dries as it stands. Then you take it to a shredder, later in the fall.

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