[AT] pull type corn shellers?

[Greg Hass]

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