[AT] Corn Binding/Hay

charlie hill chill8 at suddenlink.net
Sun Oct 14 13:50:10 PDT 2007


Yep that is similar Gene except that it is a much nicer version of the one's 
I've seen and the one's I've seen had the hook more into the body of the 
blade rather than off the back like that one.

Thanks

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Waugh Elgin, Illinois USA" <gwaugh at wowway.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Binding/Hay


> 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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