[AT] OT I'm getting older are you? (Really O) corn sheller

[drupert at seanet.com]

Charlie,

If there are any noticeable exhaust "piles" around this contraption that
may give its' identity away ... like say a cob pile and a husk pile-

Dudley>


About 15 miles from my place there is an old man and his even older father
> that run a small independent feed mill.
> They have an old rig of some sort that I think is maybe a combination
> sheller and hammer mill or grinder mounted on a 40's or 50's vintage
> truck.
> I can't remember now what kind of truck but I think IH.  They no longer
> run
> it on the road.  It sits under a shed and they use it as a stationary
> mill.
> I need to stop by there some day and check them out and maybe take some
> pictures.  I bet I've passed by them 1000 times but never had a reason to
> stop in.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beal Gleason" <farmerbeal at aol.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 8:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT I'm getting older are you? (Really O) corn sheller
>
>
>> In the early 50s we had a MM sheller mounted on Diamond T 2Ton truck.
>> IT had a 2 speed rear axel. We rigged a block on a hinge on the vacuum
>> shifter so we could flip over and block the axel from shifting into
>> high gear.                                     Then then we put a 2"
>> solid shaft in the drive line right behind the cab about 2'long
>> mounted on 2 pillow block  bearings with a pulley mounted between
>> them. Then we put a belt up to the pulley on the sheller with
>> tightener so that when we got ready to shell we could flip block over,
>> tighten the belt, shift the rear end into high an we were ready to go.
>> We had the pulleys sized so the engine ran about 40 miles / hour when
>> the seller was at operating speed.  When we were ready to hit the road
>> we loosened the belt, fliped the block and we were off.
>>
>> WE shelled several thousand bu. corn over several years and it worked
>> great.
>>
>> Farmerbeal
>>
>>
>> On Jan 30, 2010, at 2:17 AM, drupert at seanet.com wrote:
>>
>>> ....
>>>> We still harvested ear corn fairly late. I just saw a new ear corn
>>>> crib going up last week.
>>> ...>
>>>> --
>>>> Have you hugged your horses today?
>>>>
>>>> Francis Robinson
>>>> aka "farmer"
>>>> Central Indiana USA
>>>> robinson46176 at gmail.com
>>>>
>>> The above two sentances in Farmers' response of a couple of days ago
>>> have
>>> reminded me of a question/curiosity that I've had for some time so,
>>> if I
>>> ever expect to get some answers, I better ask it.  Question:  How do
>>> you
>>> first remember corn being sold?
>>>
>>> We left the farm in Southern Illinois in 1954.  At that time, of
>>> course,
>>> everyone was still harvesting corn with Pickers.  The corn that was
>>> wanted
>>> for feed or for later sale was stored in a Crib.  The corn that was
>>> sold
>>> went to the Elevator on the cob.  The Elevator had a big sheller that
>>> could handle Wagon/Truck loads as fast as they could be driven in,
>>> lifted,
>>> dumped, driven out and the cycle repeated.  I don't recall ever
>>> seeing a
>>> sheller on, or going to, a farm except for the small hand cranked jobs
>>> used for making chicken feed.
>>>
>>> Now fast forward forty years.  In the early nineties I was making
>>> frequent
>>> trips back to the Midwest.  Across the Northern parts of Illinois and
>>> Indiana I started noticing that many of the old Cribs were still
>>> standing
>>> but that they were much taller than those in Southern Illinois and
>>> they
>>> had a huge Cupola on top ... what/why were they so different I
>>> wondered.
>>> After pondering this for several years I just happened to strike up a
>>> conversation with a farmer in Northern Indiana, maybe fifteen miles
>>> from
>>> the Michigan line.  His farm had one of these "tall Cribs."  He told
>>> me
>>> they were far more than the cribs I remembered from the Southern
>>> part of
>>> the state and that they were really more like the Elevator I
>>> remembered
>>> only on a smaller scale.  His Crib/Elevator was built in the late
>>> thirties
>>> from a kit that John Deere sold.  A wagon/truck could be driven down
>>> the
>>> center and the mechanism was there to lift the front end and dump
>>> the corn
>>> into a "Gutter" that then carried the corn to one side of the Aisle
>>> where
>>> an endless vertical roller chain with "Cups" attached carried the
>>> corn to
>>> the top (i.e., up in the Cupola) where a Diverter would direct the
>>> corn to
>>> the Crib on either side.  This farmer said that when he wanted to
>>> sell he
>>> would hire a custom sheller who had a ton and a half truck with a
>>> sheller
>>> and International engine on back.  He said he had been farming since
>>> after
>>> the War and had always sold his corn shelled.
>>>
>>> I know this is just trivia but I am curious anyway as to how corn
>>> was sold
>>> - back before we started getting older - to the Elevators in different
>>> parts of the country.  For those of you whose memory does not
>>> stretch back
>>> to before Corn Heads/Harvesters came along and got well established
>>> I am
>>> sure this is "real" trivia.
>>>
>>> Dudley
>>>
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