[AT] Hey Ralph!

[Herb Metz]

Decades ago, mid 40's, a neighbor had a feed lot full of hogs.  He did not 
build up a significant supply of ear corn; this resulted in his having to 
hand shuck corn at least four days of every week throughout a rough weather 
winter.  The dad and son would go out in mid afternoon (heat of the day) and 
shuck enough for a day or two, and get back in before temperature started 
dropping.  He never made that mistake again. Herb(GA)

-----Original Message----- 
From: Don
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 9:57 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Hey Ralph!

On 11/20/2015 8:18 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Ralph,  is there any chance that just after the freeze up you can get in
> the field and harvest it before it gets snow covered?

Sometime in the mid 50s we had a very wet fall so could not get in to
pick the corn.  This was before combine shellers, we used a two row
picker and stored corn in a crib.   My uncle made skids out of old dozer
blades and when the ground froze enough we used his D4 to pull the corn
picker.  It was not many years later we bought a picker sheller.

A huge corn crib we built was still standing when we visited the farm
last summer.

-- 
Don Bowen       --AD0NB--

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