What is this implement?

Tgrasher · Mar 8, 2023

Saw this at an oncoming auction while looking the grounds over. The blades apparently rotated and there are shanks that go to the ground on each side.

Tgrasher · Mar 8, 2023

One more picture.

Jaden · Mar 8, 2023

That was used to cut up corn stalk residue before spring tillage.

Richard G. · Mar 8, 2023

Here, they were used to chop cotton stalks after harvest.
Got a old home made one out in the trees.
Richard in NW SC

Brown Dirt Cowboy · Mar 8, 2023

horse drawn one row stalk cutter

Leroy · Mar 8, 2023

One row corn chopper to be pulled with a team of horsed. The knives when workinh set a couple inches below syrfave so they will cut the corn stalks and if the did not go below surface then it would just roll over the stalks without cutting them. Same as if you are using a garden hoe and only hitting hard enought to bend the stalk down but not cut it because it would just bounce off the stalk but if yoy put enough force on the hoe it will cut the stalk wehen it goes a bit into the ground. Also made in 2 and 3 roe versions and earlier ones the knives were straight across and you would get a bounce for every time a blade touched the ground laater versions they put the blades on a spirele so a portion of each blade was always touching the ground to get rid of that bounce. Later versions were tractor drawn.

used red MN · Mar 8, 2023

Right now there is a post on the IH section about a little bigger one that looks like it was tractor drawn. It is mostly disassembled. Your looks a lot like the one we had setting behind the barn for years. I loaded it up for scrap 5 or so years ago it was sunk down in the dirt pretty good. I remember as a kid digging the dirt out around the reel so I could spin it. Probably lucky I still have all my fingers and never broke my hand.

SweetFeet · Mar 8, 2023

Awww, makes me crazy when they write on perfect rust with a paint stick, for auctions.

Neat rust though.

Geo-TH,In · Mar 8, 2023

I was told when the Woods brothers came back from WW2 they
started making corn stalk choppers.

This pic was taken back in the mid 1950.
It's my dad and a JD A.

grayrider · Mar 8, 2023

I got one last year from a coworker looks way better than that one, paid $50 for it

PJH · Mar 8, 2023

There's an old stalk chopper sitting on Kinkaid Lake property a couple of miles south of me. It had a tree growing through it 50 years ago. I vaguely remember a story about a local kid getting bounced off of one and severely injured or killed. The old timers said that they were like riding a bucking horse.

Leroy · Mar 9, 2023

That is why the later ones were changed to angle cutters to get rid of the bouncing.

BarryfromIA · Mar 9, 2023

Case also sold a setup for mounted cultivators. Back when the drouth of the 50's and the government paid farmers to cut the crop and leave it in the field Dad bought a set and ran them on the SC. I know where they are but they will not be seen till the owner of the place sells it or what ever.

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