Who remembers??

cuby · Jan 25, 2018

Got to thinking yesterday about the two thumbd cotton gloves and the husking peg that was used many yrs. ago when picking corn by hand. I do have an old husking peg but never used one.

paul · Jan 25, 2018

I've got a peg and a chain mail thumb hanging in the shop, never used them but would be for husking and probably shelling?

Paul

The Dukester · Jan 25, 2018

Yep, remember both....used to hand husk the outside rows and headlands with the hook on my left hand over the two thumb cotton glove before we went into the corn fields with the pull type picker or the corn binder or sometimes cut the entire stalks and hauled them to the barn and then husked the ears of corn off them using the husking hook.

Janicholson · Jan 25, 2018

Picked and Husked in the muddy spots as a kid (probably from 10 to 18 yrs old) Corn picker tractors were nasty to pull from slimy clay. Jim

Ronnie Budd · Jan 25, 2018

I grew up on a 160 acre diversified farm. Meaning we had milk cows, hogs, poultry, and raised grain to feed them. We never had a corn picker and picked all the corn by hand. It was then hauled to a belt driven hammermill and ground for feed, cobs and all. We put it up in 100 pound burlap sacks.

Dick L · Jan 25, 2018

I never had those kind of gloves but sure startled a lot of corn rows with a husking peg taking three rows at a time. Tossing in a wagon and making piles on the ground opening up fields for Grand Dads New Idea two row picker with the elevator out the side. Had to make room for the picker and tractor pulling a wagon beside the picker. One neighbor bought a 77 Oliver with a two row mounted picker and would open up fields for the corn. That retired the husking pegs. We did get them out some to get corn for hogs before the corn was dry enough to crib.

Traditional Farmer · Jan 25, 2018

I have a pretty fair collection of husking pegs and used them too,even use them now to shuck out a little corn for the chickens.

kcm.MN · Jan 25, 2018

Have never heard of two-thumb gloves. Sure 'nuff, they've actually got 2 thumbs. Was it because they wore out quickly?

Leroy · Jan 25, 2018

I could never get a husking peg to work, could do the job faster without it.

hd6gtom · Jan 25, 2018

Dad had a couple of pair laying around. We never used them, just picked by hand. 3 people picking into 1 wagon didn't take 2 long to get a load.

oleclint · Jan 25, 2018

Wore out many pairs of double thumbed gloves when I was a teen. Wear out one side of the palm part or the finger tips, then switch sides. Wore them when ever I needed to wear gloves.
Not quite old enuf to help pick corn by hand, Started running a mounted New Idea when I was about15. clint.

NEKS · Jan 25, 2018

Remember Dad and a neighbor picking corn by hand. Dad had got rid of his horses, but the neighbor still had his. My job was to pick up any ear that missed the wagon.

Pitalplace · Jan 26, 2018

Wore the double thumbed gloves in the winter feeding cattle. Always doubled the gloves (one inside another) to keep our hands warm. When one side got wet you rolled them over and kept going.

olgentdc · Jan 26, 2018

Hale Yes ,My Dad Would get them from our Local feed and seed store.. We pikt 15 acres by hand each yr until about 1969,.thought it was So cool when we got a New Ideal piker,.

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