[AT] Corn Binding/Hay

CEE VILL cvee60 at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 11 17:32:54 PDT 2007



We used to hand cut headlands and starter rows as you did, Carl.  We stacked the cut stalks on a wagon from both sides, ends out.  The stalks could be pulled of as  you would with a load of tree brush.  Rather than feed it whole, it was unloaded into a trough at the silo.  An auger carried the stalks into a chopper/silo blower and it ended up as silo fill along with the rest of the field that was chopped.  I do not remember much else about the chopper/blower, except you had to be very careful not to loose your footing in the muddy barn yard.  That auger would carry anything into the chopper that it could get a hold of.

Charlie V.

> From: cgogol at twcny.rr.com
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:40:34 -0400
> Subject: Re: [AT] Corn Binding/Hay
> 
> I was wondering if your plan is to feed the corn whole or to subsequently 
> chop it with a corn blower or some other means of making small pieces for 
> ensilage?  Other than manually cutting the headlands and the center two rows 
> of a field, we chopped everything for ensilage.  The headlands corn was 
> fresh cut with a corn sickle and then we fed a very full pickup load daily 
> in the pasture, but seems like the only thing the cows ate were the ears and 
> almost nothing else.  Used to put the truck in low range low gear then get 
> out and walk behind it pulling the stalks off if there was no one else to 
> drive.  We tried to time it so the headlands and center were all cut before 
> chopping started - no waste that way.  One year we didn't finish the center 
> row in time, but my dad still made me go cut and feed it to get it off the 
> ground for ease of plowing later.
> Carl Gogol
> Manlius, NY
> AC One Seventy diesel
> (2) AC D-14, AC 914H
> Simplicity 3112 & 7116
> Kubota F-2400 & B7300HST
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> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Hay here in east central Illinois is a little tight this year.  I have 
> > about half of what I normally would put up in the barn, and probably won't 
> > get another cutting this year.  To make up the short fall, I thought I 
> > might cut a couple of acres of corn to feed.  I 
> 
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