[AT] Corn Binding/Hay

[John Hall]

 Can't remember the name for it but dad made a wooden contraption to build 
the shock. You make an A frame about 6 foot tall and put a long board 
running out from it fastened at the peak of the "A". Once you get the shock 
started, we then pulled it out and just kept piling corn around teh shock 
until it gets as big as you wish. We lashed ours together with a single 
strand of baler twine. We were using bundles from a binder so I don't know 
how well this would work for hand-cut corn.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Willer" <gwill at gwill.net>
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Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Binding/Hay


> John,
>
> When we cut corn by hand many years ago we began the shock by tying
> (twisting) 4 stalks together, two from each row, to provide the anchor and
> each arm load was just stacked against them without tying into bundles.
>
> George Willer
>
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