Posted by Leroy on September 21, 2009 at 07:27:34 from (209.143.52.239):
In Reply to: Shocking corn posted by LEH on September 21, 2009 at 05:53:57:
You can do it either way tying the tops of a few stalkes together or a shocking horse. For tyony take all the stalks for about 2 feet in 2 adjoining rows and tie them together. The Shocking horse that you mention I suppose you knoe how they are made but for others that do not they are a about an 8 ft. long top saw horse with only the legs on one end and a 1 inch hole thru the top about 2 1/2 feet from the legs that you used a old worn out broom handle with the sweeping head cut off and put thru that hole. With the shocking horse the shocks could go over easier but in picking up the shocks with loading on a wagon then you still had to when you got the bundles all picked up and loaded you still had to cut those stalks. We used the shocking horse a lot but we used a buckrake,(The same we put up the hay with) to haul in the shocks so could not use the tie method as the tie method kept the shocks fastened to the ground. We had a elevator made for with the buck rake to take the bundles to the shreader instead of having to lift them up. We also used the wagon method to bring in the shocks, usually filled the wagons and stored them till mud weather and while the weather was good and the wagons inside then used the buckrake for the rest of the time. The size of the shocks could depend on how dry the corn was as you did not want it to be so that the grean stalks in the middle could not get air to for drying like hay in a windrow, the dryer the bigger that could safley be built. With the shock horse you put the first 2 bundles on the horse high side of the broom handle so it would not tip the horse over then go to bottom side with 2, 1 being on each side of top rail, then in each of the 4 corners go around and put one in each corner till you get it as big as you want it. usually after the first 4 bundles are set then they are tyed together at the top with a corn stalk. Then after the shock is finnished take a rope and put around the shock and pull as hard as you can (takes either 2 people or a special locking pully made just for that) and hold tight while you take a twine and tye the shock. Can tell more later but have to go to work.
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