2022.10.13 "Extra" Pic X2

kcm.MN · Oct 13, 2022

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Tony in SD · Oct 13, 2022

I remember storing corn like that on our farms as a kid. Then beating on the mice when we unloaded the crib.

Geo-TH,In · Oct 13, 2022

yes, the cribs were full of mice.

Stroby · Oct 13, 2022

Brings back more fond memories. Those were the days...

caterpillar guy · Oct 13, 2022

I see lots of rotten corn in his future like that if no roof put over them.

db4600 · Oct 13, 2022

No roof on that silo either! Oh dear! I see a lot of pick ax and frozen silage and if the silage is frozen there probably isnt rot growing in the cob corn as you grind it through winter. This farmer is smiling because he had to put up THREE snow fence cribs. That means that the crop was good and the local custom sheller is going to be in the yard sometime after thanksgiving wood cutting so this lucky farmer can sell some corn to the mill, pay some bills, and maybe get the kids an extra bag of rock candy at Christmas.

44 massey · Oct 13, 2022

I can remember dad storing a LOT of corn in homemade cribs like those!!! Usually put them out on the open on higher ground
and where air (wind) could get to them!! Then what seemed the coldest, windyest days in the winter or hottest days in summer,we
would have neighbors over and shell corn (landlord share) all day!!! Usually feed rest (as ground ear corn) of it (renters share) up
to our livestock (chickens, hogs, fat cattle and milk cows)!! Wed shell some with a small sheller for chickens and such, didnt
have much storage for shelled corn!!

Richard G. · Oct 13, 2022

Lot of work went into that for sure.

matthies · Oct 13, 2022

I think the work is about to get worse. This was the easy part.

rustyfarmall · Oct 13, 2022

(quoted from post at 03:35:07 10/13/22) I see lots of rotten corn in his future like that if no roof put over them.

Not really. The corn will probably all be fed by next summer.

big tee · Oct 13, 2022

I remember those picket fence cribs well--My Dad did it one year and then put up two more wire cribs--The corn kept alot better but you still tied your pantlegs with baler twine to keep the mice from running
up your pant legs when shelling them out in the Summer!!---Tee

Me unloaded while my cousin and dog watch--middle 60's

jon f mn · Oct 13, 2022

This is a great pic! Reminds me of the farm
growing up. I can't remember how you open
those to get the corn out. I see these have
a door in them but ours didnt.

Rich'sToys · Oct 13, 2022

When you unrolled that cribbing to set it up, you wired the ends together. To open it up, you just cut the wires.

gmccool · Oct 13, 2022

Looks like they were built so you could put a drag under them.

miangus · Oct 13, 2022

Shelled a lot of corn out of cribs like that with the Ottawa. It had drags but with a crib like that they didn't work so well. A corn rake is your friend. We had hogs so we shelled a pickup load every week to go to town to grind. At the end of the year any corn left was shelled and sold. Shovel the corn into the sheller then shovel the ground feed into the feeders. My cousin and I were excited when dad got us aluminum scoops. A nickel pop at the elevator or maybe some of those red candied peanuts they had in the office for a penny. A lot of people still got their feed bagged. There was always someone at the elevator getting feed in a trailer hooked to a car or getting chicken feed put in the trunk of a car.

Dennis(IA) · Oct 13, 2022

I sure didnt like to build them. They were all shelled by spring time. Ours had a wire tunnel run under the center so the shelter drag could be put in.

SweetFeet · Oct 13, 2022

That's how Daddy used to crib corn...
only 1 or 2 high though.

chcase · Oct 13, 2022

Neat picture.I made a few cribs 2 rows
high one year when I had extra corn and
wood crib was full.Put a heavy tarp on and
good to go.Fed out of them first.brings
back memories

jon f mn · Oct 13, 2022

That I know, but doesn't it just let loose
then? I know however dad did it it didn't.
I just don't know what he did. We ground
out of them a lot back then but I was very
small.

rod in nebraska · Oct 13, 2022

Been there. Done that ,we most of the time
went 3 rolls of snow fence high, couple
time getting done with the field went 4
high instead of building another crib

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