Posted by NEsota on August 25, 2011 at 16:15:02 from (75.72.251.223):
In Reply to: O/T Shocking Corn posted by fergienewbee on August 25, 2011 at 07:40:16:
Born late in 39, I was told that the iron thing jammed into a corner of the shop was a corn binder. It did not move until the mid-fifties when we had a dry year. With very poor ears on the corn stalks, the only value the corn had was in the forage. The binder was a John Deere, horse drawn, single row. The snout was like those used on corn pickers and it had a sickle mower bar with just one section to cut the stalks. Chains elevated the standing stalks up to the knottier. When 10-12 stalks were in place, a needle would bring twine around the bundle, into the knottier, trip a clutch, the knot tied and twine cut. Now you have a bundle, it would fall onto a horizontal platform which had chain driven slates, that pushed the bundles off onto the ground, when a pedal was pressed. These bundles were dumped into rows that determined where the shocks would be.
We used a horse to shock. It was made of wood. A 12' section of 2x3 was the head, body and tail of the horse. The two 1x3 front legs four feet long bolted together at one end and fastened with one bolt, 1 1/2 feet from one end of the 2x3. One end of the front legs were spread and braced 2 1/2' apart. The legs also had braces to the body. The far end of the 12' section was the third leg. The first bundles were placed near the short legs on opposite sides as more corn was added along the long leg, a point was reached where the bundles stood on their own and you pulled the horse, feet first, out into the clear and finished the shock.
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