Posted by Leroy on September 20, 2007 at 04:20:19 from (209.143.52.180):
In Reply to: Re: O/T: Corn shocks posted by big jt on September 19, 2007 at 22:52:05:
Before the binders it was all done by hand and the binders would depending on height of ears put 1 string around a bundle and if it didn't come right at the ear you could get 20 or more stalks per bundle, heavy, or if it hit right at the ear you might get 3-4 stalks per bundle. You cut as the plant was just starting to die, kernals on ear already dented. Then as soon as possible you stood the bundles in a shock. Somw wanted a smaller shock, more air circulation to dry the corn and others wanted a bigger shock to stand better. then about dead of winter you hauled in the shocks, lot of time you would be knocking snow of the bundles as you were loading them. A few would hand shuck the ears off befor feeding the hole stalk but that way less than half the stock would be eaten, after that before the husker-shreader the ears were hand shucked and the stalks choped with a small choper you hand run them thru and blew the foder in the barn for later feeding. Then the husker-shreader that took the ears off mechanily and cut and blew the fodder in as fast as you could feed the bundles. Some would only use the fodder for hog bedding. We fed the fodder in the evening to the dairy heard and what was left the next morning went out for bedding and hay for the morning feed followed again that night with fodder. The stalks choped up like that the cows would eat most of the stalk but the stalk fed whole they would only eat the leaves. And you NEVER fed a whole ear of corn to a cow as they would get it stuck in their throt and did. I still have the JD binder and New Idea shreader we used up to about 1959 and with just a little cleaning up they would go to work again.
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