Posted by Tom in TN on October 22, 2016 at 10:05:41 from (174.195.149.13):
In Reply to: A quick whatsit posted by Greg K on October 22, 2016 at 09:11:33:
I can't see the pictures but I can imagine what it looks like. When I was a kid (early 1950's) the farmer across the road was still shocking corn. A crew of us would haul the shocks to the upstairs portion of his barn and stack them in there. Then he (we)would snap the ears off the stalks and husk them. He had some leather things like the palm of a glove with a hook embedded in the "glove". We'd run the "glove" down the side of the ear to cut the husk and them snap the ear out of the husk.
He then chopped the stalks for feed with a hand operated stalk chopper. He would spend large amounts of time during the winter husking and chopping, all by hand.
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