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Post by tenring on Sept 7, 2011 17:58:19 GMT -5
Corn Shucker, the best could do a 100 bushel in one day. My late father told me that in his teen years during the Depression years, he decided to see if you could do the 100 bushel thing. He said he did but it darned near killed him.
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Post by wileyonetoo on Sept 8, 2011 19:52:53 GMT -5
Used one of those as a kid. My dad had a pull-type two row corn picker and we had to "open the field" by taking out the end rows by hand. After doing that for a couple of years I was really hoping that he would buy a tractor mounted corn picker instead. Never happened.
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Post by 36fan on Sept 10, 2011 21:55:41 GMT -5
I saw a field had been harvested up at 86th St and 465 (west side) on Friday
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Post by fullrut on Sept 11, 2011 9:03:15 GMT -5
Farmers are picking in Jennings County also.
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Post by Russ Koon on Sept 11, 2011 10:18:22 GMT -5
My grandpa taught me how to use a somewhat similar tool when I was about ten years old, in the mid-50s. I was lucky enough to only be visiting his farm for a few days, so the lessons stayed fun. He was also a blacksmith, and I'm pretty sure his was a homemade version. It had more of a curve to the blade, down near the base of the little finger, and similar strap arrangement.
He had to have been near 80 then, and could still take two rows at a time with a homemade corn knife on each hand, and go the length of two rows, back two more, and down the field with two more rows, and be there waiting for me to finish the one I started on.
During the Depression, he'd hopped freight cars to get to the big fields in Illinois and Iowa, as did many other accomplished cornpickers. He said the field boss would keep an eye out for who was doing their job well, and the man who kept two ears in the air got paid better than the ones who could only keep one in the air.
There were years when Grandpa would still have corn standing when we'd get down from upstate for a holday visit, and the whole family would turn out to help get it picked on nice days. The old gray workhorse pulled the wagon with the sideboard up on one side, and the rest of us picked and tossed the ears at it. I never did get proficient with the tool, but the man who knew how to use them well could pretty near keep up with a two-row picker mounted on a tractor.
The good old days....
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Post by gobblerstopper on Sept 11, 2011 16:12:05 GMT -5
Just left a farm in Martin county and they are starting tomorrow. A few fields picked between there and Boonville already.
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Post by tjmurf on Sept 11, 2011 21:08:44 GMT -5
South of Lafayette there has been some corn picked a week now, it was the first corn planted before the wet spell we had. I saw beens being cut today.
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Post by bbhunter on Sept 13, 2011 14:20:48 GMT -5
What is this tool, High Cotton? Haven't seen anything being cut, shelled, picked or harvested here in west central indiana(sullivan, vigo) and not sure what the difference is but a lot of fields are getting closer i expect most farmers to start on the corn here in about a week to ten days.
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Post by steve46511 on Sept 14, 2011 15:59:54 GMT -5
highcottonguide that is :
The Boss Vintage Antique Corn Husker Shucker 1906
and the field behind me in Marshall county was picked last night.
God Bless
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