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John B.

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• Mar 5, 2013

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The Good Old Days...

 

SweetFeet

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• Mar 5, 2013

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John B.,

Great photo.

Cannot imagine shocking a field of corn.

 

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leej

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• Mar 5, 2013

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One of the first corn driers, at work. ggp

 

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Bob Bancroft

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Aurora NY

• Mar 5, 2013

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Looks like a perfect stand of check rows, and two to three stalks per drop.

 

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Harvey 2

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• Mar 5, 2013

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I have been there and done that.
The good old days, when things were bad.
I like to reminisee about them, but wouldn't want to go back to them.

 

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John B.

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• Mar 5, 2013

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I remember when I was very young say 1967 or so we went to a relative's home we frequently visited and my uncle had corn shocks in the field and my one cousin and I played around them and made an opening in one where we could hide from our brothers..

 

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rrlund

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• Mar 5, 2013

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Like Dad used to say. The only thing good about it was that we were younger.

 

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John B.

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• Mar 5, 2013

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We have two old men in a newspaper comic strip here in the St. Louis area.

They're called "Frank & Ernest".
They were sitting on a park bench one day and the one said to the other.
"You know what I liked about the good ole days"?
"We weren't old and we weren't good"

 

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Wheat Farmer

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• Mar 5, 2013

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We shocked cane, Hated it then when we would pitch it onto wagons with a fork. Rattle snacks loved getting under the shocks. We would stick the fork in and shake it to see if we got a buzz.
OH yes loved that first ensilage cutter.

 

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DoubleR

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Mid Mi

• Mar 5, 2013

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I'll show that to my neighbors who make fun of me and my 323 picking corn.

 

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Wheat Farmer

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• Mar 5, 2013

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I'm starting to think the Good Old Days were better than the Golden Years.

 

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El Toro

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• Mar 5, 2013

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After the corn was hand husked we used the fodder for bedding when we ran low on straw. We changed to blades on the Papec ensilage cutter that would shred to corn fodder. Hal

 

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al1933

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• Mar 5, 2013

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My father during the 1930's used to shock his corn and on Holloween you could always find one had been torn down and set up in the county road.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Mar 5, 2013

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My granddad said they liked shocking corn because you usually shocked at night with the dew on and that way corn didn't stop your regular day work.

 

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PJH

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• Mar 5, 2013

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Clean too!

 

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Larry NEIL

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• Mar 5, 2013

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We didn't have much ground, but Dad rented some and would help the neighbors when they schocked corn. They were great for my brothers and I to play in...as long as we didn't get caught.

 

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T.E.C.

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• Mar 5, 2013

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Makes me think of day's work you don't see much any more. Reminds me of appreciating dinner time. When you sat down to eat after work like that you were HUNGRY and didn't have trouble sleeping even in a bed that was shot.

 

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Dick L

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• Mar 5, 2013

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Before I was old enough to help Dad shocked about 1/4th of our corn. I fellow brought in a shreader and blew the fodder into the haymow and the shell corn was bagged.
The first year I was able to help Dad shocked the corn around the outside and severl places thru the field to make room for a two row picker and a tractor and wagon to drive along side the picker to catch the ear corn. Called opening up the field.
The next year we opened up the fields by husking the rows and tossing the ears into the wagon and wallering down the corn as we went.

After that a neighbor had a two row mounted picker and opened up the fields for half the corn he picked.

Soon an Oliver combine came and that ended the opening up of fields.

 

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gtractorfan

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• Mar 5, 2013

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What stands out to me is this looks like a good thick stand and crop for those days. Must have been a good year.