[AT] Corn Binding/Hay

[John & Jan Paur]

We called that a shocking horse.  John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
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Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Binding/Hay


> 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
>
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> From: "George Willer" <gwill at gwill.net>
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>
>> 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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