SHELLING CORN with a MINNEAPOLIS MOLINE SHELLER tubalcain
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- čas přidán 30. 09. 2009
- Shelling corn the old way. Elevating it into the crib. Taking it out of the crib. Conveying it to the sheller. Shelling it with a MM sheller--powered by a MM tractor. Separating the husks & cobs. Conveying the cobs into a John Deere manure spreader. All admirably performed at the Atkinson Illinois Steam Show, Sept , 2009.
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This brings memories back for me too. We didn't shell much corn. We ground all our earcorn. I did help the neighbors shell alot.
This video reflects my childhood upbringing, these memories are like yesterday.
OH MY GOODNESS. That takes me back to my youth in the 60s and early 70s when I would help shell corn using the same MM corn sheller and a MM UB tractor to run it. It would be fun to do that again.
I loved shelling, Put me in the crib with a fork!! one of my favorite jobs on the farm. Theres nothing like it.
Our late neighbor Ted Schulte used custom shell corn around the area for many years with the same sheller powered by a 1650 Oliver. You still see them come up for sale at the Sweeney's auction in Waukon Iowa from time to time. Another neighbor has a smaller version he used for many years before switching to shelled corn.
Grew up in the sixties in South Dakota. Dad hired local corn shellers and my brother and I would help kicking corn ears down from a corn crib to the sheller. It was a big deal day when the sheller showed up.
That is very exciting for kids
That MM sheller sure can handle a steady volume of cob corn !
and they worked best when you kept them full of cob corn
Those cobs and husk are good feed. Dad ran his through a hammer mill, and walked the corn off the farm in the form of tasty beef.
Yes
As a teenager I helped the Hemeseth family near Ridgeway IA shell a crib full of corn. Used a Moline sheller like this one.
Wow, that brings back some memories. On my family's place in northeast Nebraska, we picked corn in the ear with an MM tractor (ZB model, I think) and mounted 2-row MM picker, and put it in the crib with an MM elevator. A neighbor had an MM sheller, and did quite the custom shelling business. Much of the corn went into temporary cribs made with "cribbing" (wooden snowfence). Arched wire "corn tunnel" sections were placed up the bottom center of the crib for the sheller conveyor to extend into. This allowed most of the ear corn to drop into the conveyor by gravity and minimized scooping. You could also knock together a tunnel out of planks and short cross boards. We kept the cobs in a "cob shed" to fuel the cob-burning cook stove in the farm house. Things have changed a bit down on the farm. P.S. Our manure spreader was also an MM. Dad also had a pull-type MM combine powered by a V-4 air-cooled Wisconsin engine. All that stuff would probably be worth some money if we had it back now.
+John Ortmann Hell, I'm getting old. The picker was a 2-row pull type run from the PTO, not mounted. A mounted picker seemed like a huge advance back then. Back then = I was born in 1952.
+John Ortmann Yes-great memories
never knew MM made machinery know I know they do, I drove a mm model Z row crop tractor as a kid, it was a good tractor.
That Elevator is a 1948 Kelly Ryan that I found in Garden Plain, Il. The fellow let me have it as a donation to the club. It was way rusty with no paint and rotted tires when I found it. A guy from Kelly Ryan told me the paints that would match original colors and said he would send a set of decals. That never happened :(
Looks like a model 1210 sheller. There were a couple guys who had them for hire but my grampa bought his own in the late 60's. As kids we looked forward to getting near the bottom of the corn crib to whack the mice. At times it was a real melee, its a wonder nobody got seriously hurt by forks and shovels flailing wildly. LOL
I remember killing rats when we got to the bottom of a manure pile. Had to roll our pant legs up
I had a rat jump onto my thigh and dig in to stay awhile. Yep, I screamed like a little girl and our rat killer sheperd-mix saved me!! Actually the rat jumped on me because the dog was after it. There's good reasons farmers don't wear shorts and that's one. LOL
our MM sheller is just like that one. hasn't been used in 12 years
Rather progressive farmer in the area hits it with the six row Uni once the jug is full, come Feb he's shelling without having to pay for drying.
Loved shelling corn best use of duct tape tape your pants tight around your boots so the rats didnt climb up where they were not wanted ohhh the good old days
We used baler twine.
Excuse the sarcasm...but isn't this against the law according to Monsanto?
why?Shelling corn to sell or feed livestock ?