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That old coot has seen it all. Good guy all around and last person I ever thought I would see on CZcams.

Appears the shelter is sitting on a non John Deere chassis.. ?

Nice

WOW " this video brought back fond memories of my Grandfather & his brother's shelling corn 🌽 back home in South Carolina " thanks for sharing sir "" your keeping our NATION'S history alive""

LOVED this video!!! I was pretty tiny, on our farm in south central Minnesota, when the shellers would come to shell corn for Dad. This was lots of fun to reawaken my memories!! Thanks!! ;o)

Great great documenting!!!! Thanks so much for sharing this. You can tell that gentleman was very proud of that machine!!!!! Great job!!!!!!

Walt Hansen did all of our corn shelling in the day. He use to live in Washington County in Nebraska.

Mr. Osborn did an excellent job describing the machine and process. In the 60's I believe Claude DeMoss did custom shelling with a No. 7 around Gilbert Iowa. (My memory might be a bit off, it's only been 55 years or so.}

I live in Michigan. There wasn't any shellers this size in my area. There were lots of dairy cows and so ear corn was ground and fed. As the dairies began to fade away some farms shipped ear corn to The Andersons in Toledo Ohio where they paid a premium for the cob. The first farm I worked in the late 80s used two New Idea pickers, one with a sheller on it. After the cribs were full we filled the chopper wagons and all the gravity wagons will shelled corn. Thank you for explaining the process. These machines interest me.

My Grandfather had to stop going to school to help his family survive when his father accidentally died from lead-poisoning during the Great Depression... With only a 3rd grade education he built-up his farm and provided enough work to feed 3 families year-round... He bought two 1930's Shellers/Threshing-machines for $100 each at an auction and made one that ran, combining the parts from both. We used that machine to custom Schell & Haul the grain and the corn-cobs ground-up for live-stock-feed. About 8 years later he sold the Sheller and remaining parts for $13,000 to a guy that still does the same services with it Today... This video is all-too familiar, it's been 42 years since I dragged corn to the conveyor... I met a giant owl that was unable to get back out the way he got in... He probable got enough to eat munching on mice... He startled me... I liked to be the 1st one in the bin to kick the corn down... I saw that giant bird out of the corner of my eye, and down I went with the Avalanche of corn pinning me to the cage-wall. I had to stay like that till the Sheller removed the corn from behind me. How embarrassing... All the help pointing and laughing, till they found out why.... I'd never seen a wild bird that close-up and that big... Eyes the size of a 50 cent piece. He stood about 18-20 inches tall. He stayed in that bin with me till we took a break to grease everything up. My Grandfather gently corralled/coaxed him out the door safely with a long-pole. He hobbled funny for a few yards as he walked off and then took to the sky... He was probably thirsty....

Nice Looking Tractor and Good looking Crop of Corn

I just acquired a Model 5 Corn sheller that is in quite rough shape that I would love to restore.

So happy to find this! My family owned the Joliet Mfg. Company!

Do you use the cobs as firewood they burn well

This was wonderful - thanks for preserving and sharing this information.

Great interesting video... brings back fond memories of farming

I like at the end when Roy is listed as "mousetrap"!

Cynthia, this is wonderful work! Just like a little Ken Burns documentary :-) I'm an old farm boy, grew up working with these old machines in the 50's and 60's. We had a much smaller sheller, but it did the job for our small operation. I took the liberty of downloading this video to my phone so I can watch it while I'm standing in line at the bank, sitting in the Doctor's office, etc. You made an old field hand smile today :-)

thank you bunches for sharing. i love seeing old equipment being used. ill share with ppl i know whom would love to sit and watch this video. thanks again

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Fabulous video, thanks for taking the effort not only to make the video, but to get us the narration from someone who knows the machine and process in and out and upside down.

Love to see and hear those ol girls working. I have a jd 520 that I'm third generation on.

that is so awesome that this old equipment gets a second life with organic farming!

Great video! I built the shell corn auger on this machine. We at Cook Machine Co. owned the rights and tooling to produce these Hart-Carter parts which we supplied to John Deere. We also produced preformance parts for these JD shellers while manufacturing our own, high performance Special and XL Special shellers. - Don Cook

Awesome video! Very well done. I saw an old JD 7 sheller sitting in the weeds yesterday and I wasn't sure what it was. Now thanks to your video I know a lot more about it. Thanks for sharing this infomation on antique farm equipment.

My Dad tells me about when he helped run the threshers when he was a young boy thanks for the video

Nice. cute carpenter.

Nice!

Wonderful job all the way around. Its always good to see one of these running again. I have a group on flickr.com its called Corn Shellers if you have the time, please stop by and leave a few pictures, videos or comments.

very good documentary. reminds me of the time i was feeding the sheller with a fork. i was probably 4 years old when we were doing it