pickin pictures
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Topic: pickin pictures
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Subject: pickin pictures
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2010 at 1:11pm
I got tired of doing this by hand so I put the ole Wood Brothers to work. I just leave the elevator shut off,pick one row and put it in a buckets. I've been burning ear corn with a little wood to heat the house. The corn didn't dry down enough last fall to pick a wagon load so I have been picking 5 or 6 buckets at a time. With help from Liz, we got a 5 day supply in the basement stairway this morning. And the piece of tin on the manifold helps keep frost off the carb throat in cold weather. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
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Posted By: ToddSin NY
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2010 at 1:13pm
| You can burn ear corn in a wood stove? I know they have a corn stove but never thought of ear corn in a wood stove?? |
Posted By: Butch(OH)
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2010 at 1:17pm
| After what you been through Charlie I am just glad to see you can get on that tractor to pick corn. Looks like that hippie look is growing back just fine too, LOl |
Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2010 at 1:25pm
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the elevator bottom was rusted out on our old Woods. Dad took the elevator off and put a piece of tin as a chute where the ears came out of the husking bed. Four of us kids walked alongside and took turns holding our bucket until it was full. Then we walked back and dumped into the wagon while a brother or sister was filling their bucket.Picked a lot of buckets of corn that way....... Lookin' good Charlie
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Posted By: BrettPhillips
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2010 at 1:53pm
| What Butch said! Glad to see you out and about like that. It looks like you need to find a snapper now, you could have Match-Light corn! |
Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2010 at 3:16pm
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My Grandpa told me that they burned LOTS of ear corn in the Depression when it was 11 cents a bushel. I tried it about 1985 . I burns with the prettiest blue colors and puts out plenty of heat. ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2010 at 3:54pm
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Todd, you should never burn corn in a wood stove. My stove is a Clayton and has cast grates and firebrick half way up the sides. It is made for burning coal so corn is not a problem. Corn might be a problem in a cheaper welded steel stove. Butch, the hair is only bout 2 inches long now. I can get on the tractor but I can't operate the brakes without backing my fat poor word choice up on top of the seat rim. Glenn, I had a thought Monday when I picked the first few rows, of taking the elevator and the husking bed off and pull a trailer along the right side. Maybe I'll do that to a parts machine some day. I have replaced both bottom pans with paintable galvanized sheet metal. The cross elevator was a real pain to get out and back in. Brett, my Allis 35 isn't much more than a snapper and this one pulls most of the husk off in the snapping rollers, but I don't think you'ld get a fire going with a little husk. LOL ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: ToddSin NY
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2010 at 1:00am
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So what we are saying is corn burns hotter? This is real interesting to me and want to learn more.
We had a barn fire back in '86 and the back 2/3 was shelled corn storage. There was wood under the corn that kept relighting and the corn would catch fire again. They claimed they pumped over 200,000 gallons on the fire over 12 days when it kept relighting as we were cleaning up the mess.
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