Corn maze cutter stalks fall fun across country

Corn maze cutter stalks fall fun across country

SOURCE: Associated Press

Timothy Day backs up his tractor as he cuts a design into a corn field in Fuquay-Varina, N.C., on Aug. 24, 2013
AP PHOTO/ALLEN G. BREED

FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. Timothy Day isn’t exactly sick of corn by the end of the summer, but …

“If I had a penny every time I’ve heard, `This is a-MAZE-ing,’ I’d certainly be rich by now,” he says with a chuckle.

Over the past couple of months, Day has cut more than 50 corn mazes. Someone else does the designs, but there’s definitely some artistry in the way he spins that steering knob.

“My paintbrush is a rototiller,” Day says. “And a tractor hooked to it.”

Most people associate corn mazes with Halloween, but the work starts long before October.

Day’s season began the last week in June. Since then, he and his partner have been as far north as Ontario, Canada, as far south as Florida, and to “almost every state between here and there.”

“It’s not out of the ordinary for us to drive 3,000 or 4,000 miles in five days and cut out 10 or 12 corn mazes in that amount of time,” says Day, who lives in Edinburg, Va., and who’s been doing this since 2005.

“Our truck is our hotel. We actually sleep in the truck most of the time. We keep either the tractor driving or the truck driving, one or the other. One of us is driving something almost 24 hours a day.”

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