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Kippster

09-13-2005 10:39:05




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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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Chuck (VA)

09-14-2005 05:41:57




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 Re: shocking corn in reply to Kippster, 09-13-2005 10:39:05  
If it is on someone else's land I would pull the corn and cut the amount of stalks needed for fodder and bedding. Little spoilage if the corn is stored in an area with good air flow such as a slatted corn bin. If you can find a corn hook it makes the job a lot easier and not so rough on the hands.

Would recommend a pair of good tight fitting goat skin gloves, split cow hide makes it hard to grasp the ears.

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Chuck (VA)

09-14-2005 05:39:51




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 Re: shocking corn in reply to Kippster, 09-13-2005 10:39:05  
If it is on someone else's land I would pull the corn and cut the amount of stalks needed for fodder and bedding. Little spoilage if the corn is stored in an area with good air flow such as a slatted corn bin. If you can find a corn hook it makes the job a lot easier and not so rough on the hands.

Would recommend a pair of good tight fitting goat skin gloves, split cow hide makes it hard to grasp the ears.

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buckva

09-13-2005 18:40:31




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 Re: shocking corn in reply to Kippster, 09-13-2005 10:39:05  

Dad would pick out 3 or 4 standing stalks in adjoining rows and tie them together standing and not cut off the stubble. All the corn stalks for about 20 feet around that would be brought to that point and stacked standing up around the main 3 or 4 stalks. when the shock was large enough it would be sinched up tight with a small rope and rope dog and then tied off with fodder twine. When the corn ear dried the shock would be broken open and the corn shucked and hauled to the grainery. We later just shucked the corn ear off the stalk and turned the cows in to the corn fields to clean up the fodder. For a few years Dad hired the mechanised corn pickers but that process made growing corn to expensive and Dad's corn growin days were over. If you are going to cut alot of corn by hand you goin to need tough hands. If you are right handed cut the leg from an old pair of jeans to make a cover for your left arm with a thumb hole about 4 inches from the end. A lot of exposure to the stalk and leaf will wear the hide right off you and will eat thru even leather coats. Sometimes I wish life was slow enough to still be doin that. Anyway--thanks for the memory.

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msb

09-13-2005 17:50:09




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 Re: shocking corn in reply to Kippster, 09-13-2005 10:39:05  
Man are you a glutton for punishment.Get a corn knife and start cutting.Let the stalks fall into your other arm until you can't hols any more.Tie the bundle with a piece of twine and let it drop.After you have 7 or 8 bundles then set them up into a shock.Make the shock as big as you want,only arrange it so it won't fall over.Then tie a piece of twine around the shock so the wind won't do them in.Or you can just pick the bundles up on a wagon and move them to where you are going to feed them.Alternate the bundle ends on the wagon when loading.That way they will ride a lot better.

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RayP(MI)

09-13-2005 18:23:38




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 Re: shocking corn in reply to msb, 09-13-2005 17:50:09  
When my dad and uncle did that years ago, they had a outfit that looked like a sawhorse minus two legs - a sort of tripod with one long leg. They placed it in the field, and placed several armloads against each side and then tied the shock together with twine. Pulled tripod out, and went on to next shock. Was a great deal when they finally got a corn binder. Even a greater deal when they got a corn picker! Husking the corn in the cold barn was a real pain during the winter. Did provide fodder for cattle tho-

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Dave Sherburne,NY

09-14-2005 10:16:05




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 Re: shocking corn in reply to RayP(MI), 09-13-2005 18:23:38  
This is the way we did it when I was young.



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