[AT] Corn Binding/Hay

Gene Waugh Elgin, Illinois USA gwaugh at wowway.com
Sun Oct 14 11:18:08 PDT 2007


Charlie, is this what you had in mind?

Gene Wuagh
Elgin, Illinois USA

http://www.woodmanspal.com/testimonials.html

charlie hill wrote:
> Hi George,  I don't know if I described it very well but if you've ever seen 
> a hunting knife with a "gut hook" on the back side it is similar to that. 
> Except that the "gut hook" part appears to be shaped so that you can hook it 
> around a stalk ect and cut it by pulling up.  I don't know much about 
> raising beets.  We used to grow a few hills in the garden but harvested them 
> by hand.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "George Willer" <gwill at gwill.net>
> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Binding/Hay
>
>
>   
>> Charlie,
>>
>> That sounds a bit like a beet knife if the rounded end you describe would
>> spear the beet to pick it up.  They were used for hand topping the plowed
>> out beets before the modern beet lifters were available.
>>
>> George Willer
>>
>>     
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-
>>> bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:55 AM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Binding/Hay
>>>
>>> I've seen some machettes that have a round notch cut in the back side of
>>> the
>>> blade.  It's a slot about 1" wide cut at an angle into the blade with a
>>> rounded, sharpened end.  I've often wondered what it's true intent was.
>>> Could it be they were made for cutting corn or cane?
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "George Willer" <gwill at gwill.net>
>>> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 8:04 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Binding/Hay
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> That mower section knife is like the one we used we used to cut the
>>>>         
>>> twine
>>>       
>>>> as
>>>> the bundles were fed into the shredder after we became modernized with 
>>>> a
>>>> binder, tractor, and corn shredder.
>>>>
>>>> When the corn was cut by hand it was with a straight knife somewhat 
>>>> like
>>>> I still use for some chores around the yard.  It was a straight blade
>>>>         
>>> with
>>>       
>>>> no curve like a machete has.
>>>>
>>>> George Willer
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-
>>>>> bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Steve W.
>>>>> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 5:50 PM
>>>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Binding/Hay
>>>>>
>>>>> And if you want the home made version take an old hoe handle and saw a
>>>>> slot on one end long enough to install a sickle bar section. Install
>>>>>           
>>> the
>>>       
>>>>> section with it at an angle. I drilled the holes for mounting so that
>>>>> one hole is close to each edge of the handle. You could also use a
>>>>>           
>>> chunk
>>>       
>>>>> of heavy wall conduit as the handle. To use just slide the handle down
>>>>> the stalk till you hit the ground and give it a sharp yank up/back to
>>>>> cut the stalk.
>>>>>
>>>>> Larry D Goss wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> If you can find one, John, use a bona fide corn knife for the job of
>>>>>>             
>>>>> hand
>>>>>           
>>>>>> cutting rather than the machete-style knives that dealers are 
>>>>>> selling
>>>>>> nowadays.  It makes all the difference in the world.  You may have 
>>>>>> to
>>>>>>             
>>>>> haunt
>>>>>           
>>>>>> a bunch of antique shops to find one, but a real corn knife looks
>>>>>>             
>>> kind
>>>       
>>>>> of
>>>>>           
>>>>>> like either a miniature scythe or a hand sickle on steroids.  The
>>>>>>             
>>>>> forward
>>>>>           
>>>>>> side of the knife is serrated and you don't have to swing it to make
>>>>>>             
>>> it
>>>       
>>>>>> work.  You just put the knife down low (close to the root ball) and
>>>>>> pull
>>>>>> toward you at an angle.  It slices off the stalk clean as a whistle.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> You
>>>>>           
>>>>>> know that it's time to sharpen the knife when you start pulling the
>>>>>> root
>>>>>> balls out of the ground.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Larry
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> --
>>>>> Steve W.
>>>>> Near Cooperstown, New York
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