Monday, September 21, 2015
Antique Machinery Show
The Butler County Antique Machinery Club has relocated from Chrisholm Historic Farmstead to the Barn-n-Bunk in Trenton.
A couple of weeks ago, the two of us helped several of the members of the club build these corn shocks. About ten stalks had been bundled together in the field.
We then stacked the ten stalks to make the larger corn shocks.
Aaaaaagh!
Members brought 70 tractors to the show!
Up from 50 tractors last year.
This is the machine that separates the corn from the
leaves and stalks. The dried corn goes into the green wagon;
the chopped leaves and stalks, into the red wagon.
A Bobcat is lifting a shock of corn to be husked.
This man was really busy, cutting the twine binding the shocks
and feeding the stalks through.
All done. Time for a new shock of corn.
Why were shocks of corn built?
The chute got clogged with the husks.
Pumpkins for sale.
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# posted by Martha @ 8:35 PM 
