Started binding corn
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Topic: Started binding corn
Posted By: Don(MO)
Subject: Started binding corn
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 8:39pm
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I have been off the Forum for a week or so getting the fall harvest started. I just got the old IHC two row corn binder in the field tonight, Build one 300 stock or more shock tonight.
This old binder is a life saver if you have cut corn by hand. I can run more corn through it in ten mins that a man can cut by hand in one hour! I do use the WD45 to power it.
Don
 ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
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Posted By: David Maddux
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 8:44pm
| Make that money big boy. Dave. |
Posted By: D17 owner
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 8:50pm
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WOW your corn looks dry. It is about 30% here yet. The feilds are 110%. They were wet two week ago making ruts, 1.5" of rain lastnight and they say heavy rain thursday. Guy at work was chopping over the weakend with a 6080 4wd with a 830 case in frount helping. Little wet! |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 8:53pm
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Dave, I will call you and Michael before I start shelling the corn, Looks like it will be two or three weeks before it's dried down to 15% or so.
And Yes I am counting the green now! LOL ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Rick of HopeIN
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 8:54pm
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Around here it is so dry the fields are catching on fire with even a slight spark.
------------- 1951 B, 1937 WC, 1957 D14, -- Thanks and God Bless |
Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 9:02pm
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You know my Grandfather Long would never allow any powered equipment on his farm except his Grandson - ME - when Pop would get a tractor to help with mowing. Corn cutting and binding was something else. Grandfather Long could do much better than us younger persons. He put us all to shame cutting and binding corn. Drove me nuts.
Dave, great job. Looks great. After looking at gazzillion row corn headers picking and shelling corn in Delaware it is teriffic to see something a lot less efficient but still more in keeping with my early memories.
Thanks!!
Good Luck!
Bill Long
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Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 9:06pm
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Dang Don I'm jealous! That is exactly what I need for selling my corn stalks for decorations. Right now I cut them with the 80R mower, sort and tie the bundles by hand. Does it take regular square baler twine? Anyone know of one for sale? ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 9:26pm
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Eldon, I have one more two row binder sitting in the fence row. It uses binder not baler twine same as rotor baler twine.
PM me if you need one.
Bill, My Dad made us boys cut, bind and shock corn by hand one time! I don't remember what we did to make him mad but I know we didn't do that again!! lol
The ground is soft I was cutting in 4" to 6" and I have not got in the low parts of the field.
Don ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 10:04pm
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Don - I got really good at cutting bundles of corn stalks at age 14 with a corn knife...was the bad bad drought summer of 1980 when everyone's crops burnt up in MO. No grass for the cows to eat so each day my Dad and I'd go out to the field with a wagon and cut a load cornstalks by hand to feed them...no ears to speak of on them but enough green in them to give them something to eat. I'd walk down the rows and cut a bundle until my left arm couldn't wrap around any more, go throw them on the wagon and go again. Mike
------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 11:36pm
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Thanks for the pic Don.My Brother and I would have to cut the end rows by hand and feed the ears to the pigs and the stalks to the cows.One wagon load a day until the end rows were gone.We would use corn knives like Mike.If we did not make the cut flat and level with ground we would get an earful about angle cuts poking holes in tires.I never saw a cornstalk puncture a tire,but I would think they could if conditions were right. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: AtuckerKY
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2010 at 7:45am
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We have an old ground driven IH corn binder that we use to cut cane to make sorghum. Would like to find a pto binder some day. ------------- Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. Eisenhower, Dwight D. |
Posted By: Lance/SC
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2010 at 8:04am
| Growing up in the 50's in the North Carolina mountains we never had a problem with sharp corn stalk stubs. Sleds don't have wheels. LOL |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2010 at 6:41pm
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Well Mike, I'll sale Eldon this one and you and Rick can just come over and help me cut them. LOL ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Rick
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2010 at 8:50pm
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Well,Don...if that's what you want to do ol' buddy,we can do that! LOL! I've swung the old corn knife many a time myself when I was younger. Hated it then,but it was kinda neat standing the corn stalks in shocks in the field. Pretty neat now,but man,I hated doing it then 'cause I was thinkin' 'bout the girls! It didn't really matter to us if we cut the stalks at an angle,we had to cut all the corn stalks by hand anyway! I guess dad thought that with seven boys,who needed a tractor and equipment. He called it "a lesson in life". Rick |
Posted By: 1946WP
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2010 at 9:08pm
| I've got a IH ground driven corn binder w/steel wheels that a guy asked me if he could buy it. It's stored inside . just wondering if anybody knows what it would be worth. thinking about selling it. |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2010 at 9:26pm
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Careful Rick!...Next thing you know we'll be picking all his ear corn by hand too...then out will come a corn sheller for the shelled corn Don needs...and not a belt pulley version either...all while he's stand around selling us on how it's like the good old days....course Don will "help" by sitting up on his 45 with PS pulling the wagon for us...LMAO! Mike
------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: GBACBFan
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2010 at 9:34pm
Somewhere between the tractor and the corn knife.
 ------------- "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Rick
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2010 at 9:38pm
| Mike...you really don't think Don would do that to his ol' buddies,do you? Although,the more I think about what you said here,if I didn't know any better,I might think...YES! LOL! Just kidding,Don...thanks for chatting with me over the phone the other night. I was beginning to think you moved away! Rick |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2010 at 3:26am
| there is a lady in omaha, that pays $10 per stalk for decorations every year, soooo i just go over to the neighbors fields and cut her as many as she wants!!! LOL! |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2010 at 6:03am
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Guys, I will keep the binder and just have you come help load the wagon and build the shocks If you do good at that then you can run the WD45. lol
I payed $ 700 for this one back 6 years ago and it was field ready.
Don ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2010 at 7:31am
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Rick -yes Don seems to go AWOL more lately....Mike
------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: Michael Crowe
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 1:52pm
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It is always neat to see a WD/WD45 in the fileld; nothing better. ------------- The 14th Annual Exclusive AC Swap Meet will be held in Boonville, MO, March 7-8, 2025. See the club website for details: http://www.moacclub.com/ |
Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2010 at 4:53pm
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I forgot to post a pic of the corn shock. I did pick a load of eared corn today so the model T-T had a load of corn on it for the show next weekend.
Don
 ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |