Shelling corn the hard way with antique and vintage equipment

Shelling corn the hard way with antique and vintage equipment - Classic Tractor Fever

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4 жыл бұрын

The first video shows an International Harvester 6 horsepower model M Engine belted to a 4 hole corn sheller. The second video shows a Minneapolis Moline 5-star belted to a Minneapolis Moline 1210 corn sheller.
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@robertnymand9889 3 жыл бұрын

What a great looking outfit. And working good!

@tomshiba51 4 жыл бұрын

This is what is good about farming; respect for the land, the weather, animals, neighbors, and most of all, machinery.

@kevinhelgerson982 4 жыл бұрын

End of every summer we’d shell corn to fill the little bin. Then he had room for the fall harvest. Then bale the corn husks for bedding. A lot of work but working beside my grandpa was worth it.

@garywilliams7734 4 жыл бұрын

Been there my friend. HONEST hard work by hard working men and women

@AK-ck7cy 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. People don't know how it was done back in the day. But you have to remember that was modern day and fast for the year it was done in. Better than all by hand. So I love to see all the old machinery working.

@garyhunter6030 4 жыл бұрын

That is one cool sheller. My grandpa had a hand crank sheller as well as a grinder for corn. he made all his cornmeal with those two devices.

@fuzzwack1 4 жыл бұрын

I could watch these old machines for hours!

@farmboy5622 4 жыл бұрын

Around the 1:35 mark,.....Been there, Done that,.....many, many times. Word would get around the farming community when you were old enough and strong enough to do that type of work. Between shelling corn, baling hay and straw, and milking cows, I was always working somewhere since the 3rd grade.

@lawrencekieffer6770 4 жыл бұрын

The memories good times working together having fun. Remember the rats and mice running out my dad had one go up his pant leg

@357bullfrog2 4 жыл бұрын

I remember them days. Swapping work and eating at the neighbor your working fors house. Shining times

@lawrencekieffer6770 4 жыл бұрын

@@357bullfrog2 you could always tell a good cook it took longer to shell a crib there🌝

@stephenfonder7409 4 жыл бұрын

One guy told me his family had a bunch of lawn mowers encircled around the crib as they were shelling to get the rats that can running out. He said it was a real bloody mess by the time they were done.

@Ticky66MN 4 жыл бұрын

Sure makes me think just how amazing modern day combines are with how much they can process so quickly.

@l337pwnage 3 жыл бұрын

It mostly comes down to advances in horsepower, and also, tires to support weight of the huge machines they use now. Many of the processes aren't much different because the job is still the same.

@mildredherring1904 Жыл бұрын

Unless it's cotton combines sure leave slot of cotton in the field

@forneyantiquepower4688 4 жыл бұрын

Over the years, my family shelled a lot of corn with a 2 hole wooden Sandwich powered by a 2 cylinder Cushman on a half scale Oil Pull grandpa built. The Sandwich started sagging and gaps in the boards spilled lots of corn on the ground, so we got a MM sheller similar to this one, but had to upgrade power to a Farmall F-20 because the Cushman couldn't spin the MM sheller fast enough.

@melchristian1155 4 жыл бұрын

Bring them back a lot of good memories

@harlancook8224 4 жыл бұрын

We used that exact Minneapolis Moline sheller until 2001 an did custom work with it also

@johnortmann3098 3 жыл бұрын

I scratched many a bushel into one. A neighbor had one and was the neighborhood custom sheller. He powered and towed it with a Farmall M. We had a "cob house" on the place. Used ground cobs for chicken-house litter, and there was a cob-burning cookstove in the house. There was a big cardboard box full of cobs next to the stove, and the rule was to throw all waste paper into it for use as fire starters. To this day I'll sometimes call a waste-paper receptacle a "cob box."

@edwardharrop5819 4 жыл бұрын

Lol hard way. Must have never done it by hand! That is the hardest way. Great video

@richardpfeiffer979 4 жыл бұрын

Growing up I helped shell a lot of ear corn. Our neighbor had a corn sheller on a truck chassis. You could break a drag chain connection anywhere by hand. He had spare engines for the sheller, a homemade screen for the radiator. It would eat the corn as fast as you could feed it.

@oldfarmer4700 4 жыл бұрын

Same here, we had a guy that shelled corn for us for a few years. The truck his sheller was on was a old ford that over heated and we had to keep buckets of water for him to dump in all day. Every truck he had was old and worn out and every one had to be fixed at least once while he was there. He had the best to haul the shelled corn and the junkie ones were mainly for the cobs. Just blew the husks in a pile that blew up against a snow fence we set up. We usually cut out the two center tines on the corn rake so the ears didn't get stuck all the time when we were raking the corn out of the cribs. Those were some good old days. I sure miss them.

@akfarmboy49 4 жыл бұрын

thank you I like corn shellers, and that M&M sheller is classic.

@michael7423 4 жыл бұрын

All those corn cobs remind me of my grandmas corn cob jelly

@hturbo1007 4 жыл бұрын

My brother still has a Minneapolis Moline 1200. He hasn't used it in years. I do remember it can eat a few thousand bushels of corn an hour if you can feed it fast enough.

@73honda350 4 жыл бұрын

I grew up in a small rural IL town in the 60's when a lot of corn in the area was still picked, not combined, and everyone still had a corn crib. A neighbor down the street had late 1930's REO truck with a rusty, galvanized sheller mounted on it. Local farmers would hire him and his rig to shell corn from their cribs throughout the year.

@sallybrown1459 4 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@beebop9808 2 жыл бұрын

When I grew up it wasn't all that rare that we didn't have two nickles to rub together. Shelling corn by hand was the way it was done. Working till your fingers were raw and bloody was the hard way. lol

@stollvondeining9485 4 жыл бұрын

If you want it the real "hard way" .... take a cob with both hands and twist it. In 1987 i was part of an youth excange. I stayed 3 weeks at a farm in Harris/MN. Working with IHC and Farmal Tractors, making hay and shelling corn with such an MM corn sheller. Greets from Bavaria/Germany

@claytonlemieux4090 4 жыл бұрын

love the hit and miss engine running it and the old machines

@Yawles 4 жыл бұрын

Eugene Sukup started his family business making an auger flighting (the spiral part) to which you hooked a heavy-duty Sears power drill. The drill bolted to the frame, which was a large steel pipe curved so it formed a 3' tall letter "C". The pointed bottom of the C had a point on the end with a foot-step about 8" up from the end. The corn crib would be opened, and when the ears would slow down, a guy would stick the auger into the crib, turn on the drill, letting the auger drill into the ears. The operator would then step on the footstep, pushing the point into the ground, so he would let the point hold the auger back, pulling out the ears.

@mikeyd5969 4 жыл бұрын

I used to grind the cobs with are feed grinder when the shelling was done ,it was the best bedding for hogs I’ve ever used .

@DNeilReynolds 4 жыл бұрын

I grew up working on a John Deere No. 6 sheller on a 1941 International truck chassis. Would enjoy a Classic Tractor video version of one of these should you choose to produce it.

@alternator7893 3 жыл бұрын

It's dangerously awesome!

@Jjason601 4 жыл бұрын

Nice 👍🏻

@robertheinkel6225 4 жыл бұрын

I used to use a hand powered shelled, that took one ear at a time. Worked great for feeding chickens.

@kevinhelgerson982 4 жыл бұрын

My grandpa had the same sheller.

@catfishinwithcrow685 4 жыл бұрын

That’s an amazing video

@DanielCPurdy 4 жыл бұрын

When I was a little kid in PA, there were many dairy farms. They grew corn for winter feed for the cows. That had corn cribs to hold it. They fed the whole ears to the cows. So, I was familiar with huskers, not shellers. Just regional differences.

@gonerydin4225 3 жыл бұрын

This is a video from my formative years. : )

@ihus9950 4 жыл бұрын

👍

@kerrywright2645 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like the easy way to me.

@danw6014 4 жыл бұрын

I'd like to find a good one for shelling out of my crib for my steers.

@scottrayhons2537 4 жыл бұрын

Dan I got one here for you at my farm. Its got a few issues but I want to get rid of it.641-430-6002

@scottrayhons2537 4 жыл бұрын

Got one. It got a few issues but the price is right.641-430-6002

@deweylowman605 3 жыл бұрын

I had to use a hand crank..one cobb at a time.

@rudyjanke5942 4 жыл бұрын

Why would you want the husks separate from the waste cobs?

@jazzerbyte 4 жыл бұрын

Possibly separate because that was the easiest way to move them out of the threshing process. But they were also useful for animal bedding and lining a manure spreader chain before loading it with cobs so that cobs wouldn't get under the chain while unloading.

@ericjames5163 4 жыл бұрын

In the olden days the cobs were toilet paper...

@danw6014 4 жыл бұрын

My dad used to have to carry a couple of pails full of corn cobs in for the cook stove.

@uwusmolbean 4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure "the hard way" involves a rock and a stick...

@dwightl5863 4 жыл бұрын

More like two hands only.

@l337pwnage 3 жыл бұрын

Ya, this is still orders of magnitude faster than doing it by hand.

@defuse56 4 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering what company made the sheller in the first segment? IHC / McCormack?

@ikonseesmrno7300 4 жыл бұрын

That is an IHC. Don't recall the model. If I run across it in one of my books, I'll post back.

@defuse56 4 жыл бұрын

@@ikonseesmrno7300 Thanks!

@ericbernau2 4 жыл бұрын

If I go deaf some day it'll be from shelling corn

@africadreamin 4 жыл бұрын

Has anyone got a video or a machine manual that shows the stripping mechanism.

@youngcharlie5199 4 жыл бұрын

Only a memory,yellow dent and 90 day were the varieties,2 draught horses to plough and sow.It was called pulling corn,poke a 6 inch nail through the top of the husk and spread a tear to the bottom of the cob off and toss into a bucket.Spread your bags about a bucket apart, when bags are full sow tops and cart on slide behind draught horses and deliver to corn she'd. Then shelled through a hand turned corn shelter. Still have my grandfather's corn shelter in the shed!!! Loved the smell of the horses the swish of the plough the squeak and strain of the harness and trace chains.l miss but I love the memory.From Australia.

@michaelwashington2682 4 жыл бұрын

That's some old time stuff 😂 nice video 👍 is the corn for animals or humans? And Why is the cob red? Out here it's not like that.

@c50ge 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone noticed that the were harvesting toilet paper to offset the shortage in 2020?

@je9732 4 жыл бұрын

One shell of a time using that old equipment. I do think technology is good but the bad side of it is making America lazy and dummer then people 50-100 years ago.

@danw6014 4 жыл бұрын

And they can't get going when the going gets tough.