McCormick hemp binder

[MikeL.]

Hey guys, anyone around heard of a hemp binder? Does anyone know any that are around anymore? I have found a couple supposedly but no one ever got back with me. Very interesting piece of machinery. Id love to find one and know more about them. I have found various models but I did a while back end up purchasing at least a manual for one. I?d like to see some real pictures at least if anyone would have some. Thank you!

 

[db4600]

My brother could bind his hemp in a Zig-Zag with one hand while steering his ?68 Chevelle and rocking to Led Zeppelin.

 

[Mutt and Jeff]

Hemp used to be a fibrous product. For making sisal or ropes, the seeds used in feeds and such.

In today's scheme it is an oil rich vegetable matter squished to exude a syrup sold in very small quantity to be vaporized (smoked) or infused into other edibles as some new age homeopathic remedy?

so the field over by the park along the river in town is now growing

I suspect the drunks junkies and opportunists to rob pillage and dry the fake weed and sell it in the park as real. It has all attributes of marijuana except thc but I guess with the "CBD" and wishful thinking effects may indeed support some slight high.

 

[r.w.b.]

Ihc should have lots of them hemp binders, ihc grew hemp in mexico to make ihc premium baler twine.

 

[fred goodrich]

Isn't that something what goes around comes around, I'll have to find some of those, people around here are growing it again.

 

[Mutt and Jeff]

Yea, and you are only writing that "for a friend"

 

[Dean]

Dude!

I need one of those.

Dean

 

[jeffcat]

That is actually a pretty large machine. Almost an older haybine. That is going to be very hard to find if they all didn't just rot away in 70 odd years. Interesting though. Maybe a barn find in the areas they were used.

 

[CGID]

Hemp still is a very useful, fibrous material. The photos from the manual show just how common hemp used to be. Sisal is made from agave. Sisal cordage is inferior to cordage made from hemp. Hemp oil is extracted from the hemp seed. CBD is produced primarily from the watery juice of the stems and the final product is a powder. To make CBD oil, oil (usually coconut) is added to it. It's a waste of time and money to expect any recreation from CBD.

 

[shaun wallace]

Proably not any left because government owned them. At Ag Hall of Fame, Bonner Springs Ks has a hemp turner. Looks like windrow inverter in prototype days. Says that was owned by the government. One of them things that got lost track of.