Ohhhh man!! Talk about a formula for misery! Growing up in West Texas, we fed-out lots of steers and lambs and my dad grew forage sorghum--not corn--for roughage. The sorghum, and sometimes red-top cane, was harvested with a "row binder" (more correctly known as a corn binder, but, of course, we were not harvesting corn!) Then the fun really began: first drag those heavy green bundles together to form the shock. The first four were stood on their butts and put together by "inter-digitating" (like locking your 10 fingers together) the tops of the bundles, usually containing heads full of sorghum grain. Then you would stand and lean bundles all around until you had a shock. Next, after a couple of weeks of drying in the shocks, the bundles were loaded onto wagons, hauled to the stack yard, off-loaded and stacked. Building a stack that would stand up and shed water is REALLY a lost art. Next, you drag the bundles out of the stack, run them through a Letz forage grinder and blow it into a bin. And, finally, you would get to handle it once more when you would haul it out to the troughs to feed the critters. One saving grace (maybe the only one) was that they really liked it, especially with molasses dribbled over it.
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