[AT] pull type corn shellers?

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

OK, glad to know somebody has seen them. I never heard of my family selling 
corn until they bought a self propelled combine. Prior to that they picked 
it on the ear and either fed the whole ear, or shelled it in a New Holland 
stationary sheller and then ran it through a hammer mill or grist mill to 
make feed. This was normally done in small batches, I guess they shelled and 
ground enough for just a few weeks at the time. I have no idea what they did 
if they had a great crop and had more than they needed.

John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: Greg Hass
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 8:40 PM
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: Re: [AT] pull type corn shellers?

At one time there were quite a few of them in our area of Michigan. All
that I know of were New Idea brand. They were made to pull a gravity box
behind and that auger was only to elevate the corn into the wagon. This
was before combines were used much for corn. It was so you could haul
the shelled corn to the elevator or to a dryer without handling all the
cobs. If you chose, you could buy the picker with both the shelling
attachment and the husking unit. It was not that big a job to change
from shelling to husking if you wanted to fill some corn cribs. Around
here they were called picker-shellers. Because they sell quite cheap
now, one guy I know has a picker he uses to fill a small corn crib in
the fall and the next summer, after it has air dried he uses a
picker-sheller with the gathering chains and rollers unhooked and a home
made hopper over the paddle chain that feeds the sheller. He dumps corn
from the crib into the hopper where it goes through the sheller and then
into a gravity box. He then uses the corn for his corn furnace to heat
the house thus saving drying and storage charges at the elevator.
               Greg Hass
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