[AT] Was: Re: FW: Re: hello?, now "people never get rid" NOW: what are corn sleds?

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Thu Jan 27 14:06:09 PST 2011


well  I got close Gene.  I didn't think about silage.  Not something we have 
much of around here.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gene Dotson
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 4:29 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Was: Re: FW: Re: hello?,now "people never get rid" NOW: 
what are corn sleds?

    A corn sled was used for cutting off the stalks to prepare for making
corn silage. It cut the entire stalk and was layed on the sled to make
bundles. When a bundle was made, it was pushed off the side to be picked up
later and hauled to the ensilage cutter and blower and then blown into the
silo.

http://www.britannica.com/facts/5/250746/sled-cutter-as-discussed-in-corn-harvester-agriculture

                        Gene





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Was: Re: FW: Re: hello?,now "people never get rid" NOW:
what are corn sleds?


> Alan,  I suspect it was a sled for hand picking corn.  Somewhere to throw
> the corn as you walked and snapped ears but that's just an educated guess
> having seen similar sleds for harvesting tobacco.
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Alan Nadeau
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:16 PM
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> are corn sleds?
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
> To: <AT at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:57 PM
> Subject: [AT] FW: Re: hello?, now "people never get rid"
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>
>
>
> " He shortened the two tongues in the 2 row horse drawn corn sled and made
> a compact pull type two row sled.   The horse drawn sled took every other
> row, with a pole connecting the two one-row sleds, and the operator sat on
> a
> seat in the middle between the two sleds. "
>
> Herb, different locale and terms, along with being a bit younger than you
> are leaves me wondering just what corn sleds are/do.
>
> Al Nadeau
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