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IHC Tobacco Stock-Cutter

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Ida Red

03-22-2006 20:33:35




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Wanted IHC single row 'tobacco stock-cutter' on steel. Preferred in Ontario. Red March 22,2006




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Ida Red

03-23-2006 12:26:04




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 Re: IHC Tobacco Stock-Cutter in reply to Ida Red, 03-22-2006 20:33:35  
These IH double steel-wheeled machines were much like the old horse-drawn cultivators but had a beater bar with a barrel of rotating kives that chopped off the stalks as you pulled it along.There were both single and double row machines. Look in the old wine coloured IH encyclopedia for a picture. Red



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Mark

03-23-2006 09:15:41




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 Re: IHC Tobacco Stock-Cutter in reply to Ida Red, 03-22-2006 20:33:35  
Here in eastern KY., the only stalk cutters I ever knew of had broke backs, tired arms, and black gum all over their hands from swinging a tobacco knife all day long and spearing those stalks....cut a thousand sticks a day if he's a good man! This cutter referred to must be a contraption used where they raise flue cured tobacco. This is (was) burley country.



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Fred Mills

03-23-2006 06:06:58




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 Re: IHC Tobacco Stock-Cutter in reply to Ida Red, 03-22-2006 20:33:35  
I have one that came from my hometown Chinquapin, N. C. It was made by IH for a super A.Worked good but made a dirty mess of everything.The cutter mounts in the front cultivator frame in the shank receivers.



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Jim in NC

03-23-2006 05:29:55




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 Re: IHC Tobacco Stock-Cutter in reply to Ida Red, 03-22-2006 20:33:35  
I have seen and used 2 different kinds of stalk cutters. Early ones were made to be pulled by mules or horses, were on steel wheels, and had a rolling cutter with about 6 to 8 blades that chopped the stalks into small pieces. The cutter could be raised and lowered. Many of these were later modified so they could be pulled with a tractor. Many later ones were made with posts so one could clamp them to the cultivator arms of super As ,100s, 130s, 140s etc. They worked great but would make a mess of your tractor. The stalks rubbing and beating against the tractor would turn a red tractor black and brown from the gum on the stalks! Pieces of stalks and dirt would be in the mix as well. The operator would need a good bath, too. I don't know if IH made any of these. I see them sometimes at farm auction sales as well as around old tobacco barns. I have one of the newer ones. Hope this helps.

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Guy Fay

03-22-2006 21:43:54




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 Re: IHC Tobacco Stock-Cutter in reply to Ida Red, 03-22-2006 20:33:35  
Okay, what's an IH tobacco stock cutter? I grew up on a tobacco farm, worked in the IH archives for a decade, never heard of such a thing.



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BillyinStoughton

03-23-2006 06:53:01




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 Re: IHC Tobacco Stock-Cutter in reply to Guy Fay, 03-22-2006 21:43:54  
I'm with you Guy...I have seen a few different tobacco stock cutters, but never one branded by IH. H*ll, I've never actually seen one in operation. I am more familiar with the "bend over and start swinging" method that I'm sure you have mastered. With the government buyout, I think we are going to have another four acres of alfalfa this year as compared to tobacco.

If anyone is going to know about a tobacco stock cutter, I bet the answer comes out of the Carolina's or southern Wisconsin.

Shoot me an email if ya get a moment. I'd like to become a member of the Rock River Club. I've been told you might know something about that.

Billy

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Guy Fay

03-23-2006 11:09:11




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 Re: IHC Tobacco Stock-Cutter in reply to BillyinStoughton, 03-23-2006 06:53:01  
I always sucked at cutting- glasses kept falling off of my face, my gut got in the way, and the heart condition didn't help much either. Didn't mind stringing much, was a above averge wagon driver, loaded wagons and racks quite a bit (we used both). Not enough upper body strength to be good shed crew (heart condition again). now stripping and planting... between cabbage, tobacco, tomatoes, peppers, and assorted cole crops, I was on the Ellis two row up to 50 acres a year, or driving the neighbors Super M that pulled it. You can rev down on a Super M so far that the exhaust cap will hit the pipe between every fire. Been 14 years since I did any of that stuff now.

I'll shoot you an e-mail when I get home about Thresheree- might be a few days!

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BillyinStoughton

03-23-2006 12:58:12




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 Re: IHC Tobacco Stock-Cutter in reply to Guy Fay, 03-23-2006 11:09:11  
I was too tall at too young of an age, I think I got hanging duties when I was about fourteen or so. I always liked it though, you don't get beat down by the sun, and if you work hard enough to get ahead of the racks, you managed to get a break while you were waiting. There were years though where you couldn't outrun the tobacco axe. It wouldn't be hard to tell either...cause when you got to the end of the row and tried to stand up, you just curled right back over into that bent over position. Ha ha ha!

Thanks!

Billy

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Guy Fay

03-23-2006 20:10:49




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 Re: IHC Tobacco Stock-Cutter in reply to BillyinStoughton, 03-23-2006 12:58:12  
Yah, I had an uncle who was gay that was a great tobacco hand- he was gay so he knew how to bend over real good. Actually, he could work any three teenagers into the dirt.

We had some bikers for shed crew for a few years- great guys, hard workers. We had antoher 18 year old blond kid who was god's gift to women, nice enough, but he was still getting over his very screwed up childhood. Anyway, the bikers decided to have a little fun with him, so they convinced him that they had just gotten out of jail, and that he was looking kind of cute. The kid was getting pretty nervous and keeping an eye on those bikers when Mom came along to drop off the cookies, pop and beer for break. The blond kid took his eyes off of the bikers to say Hi, and the biker above him grabed him by the arm. Those bikers handed that six foot tall kid all the way up to the peak, and the kid screamed all the way up. Ma's still laughing about that one. Now that's a shed crew!

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little john

03-22-2006 22:01:26




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 Re: IHC Tobacco Stock-Cutter in reply to Guy Fay, 03-22-2006 21:43:54  
Perhaps means "stalk cutter"? Something to chop the stalks after all leaves have been pulled?



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