Another great video and thank you for sharing. It’s been really cold here in western NY as well and next week is going to get even colder. I’m looking forward to seeing what happens with corn shuckers!! You’re the Man!! Keep up the good work!!
The cold weather may be affecting your plans! However you have the corn and the equipment to make it happen. Looking forward to your project. Of course I am biased to you using the New Holland!
I've done this. Had a guy who would bring me wagons. I'd pick them full and weight them again. He would sit and package a few ears for the farm stores. It's a ton of work and they want consistent nice looking ears. There was plenty that got thrown into a sheller any way. A saved a wagon full last fall that went through my White sheller. Lots of work and rather messy but it was fun. If I do more I need to find a manure spreader for the cobs and shucks. I look forward to seeing the grinder sheller working.
I think everyone in my area is sick of the cold and snow as well as the ice. You really tickle me with your statements denigrating yourself, I like it, we should all be so humble. I am going to love to see the JD 43 sheller working, I love watching those old treasures come back to life. Good luck with it, I hope you have a good evening!
Thanks for the braving the cold for us farm equipment junkies. I can’t wait to see you get started on that sheller and see the little B hooked to it. Also enjoyed the hydraulic coupler rebuilds. I enjoy all your content. Thanks again and stay safe and healthy.
Hey Ross - I have that exact same John Deere corn sheller - and you are correct that it's a model 43. I bought mine about 30 years ago from a farmer in the neighboring county so I could shell ear corn to feed my pigs. I painted mine when I got it and didn't have to do too much else to it. It's fully functional and has been sitting upstairs on the barn floor, where it's been since the last time I used it. It's kind of a time capsule.
We appreciate the effort. I recently acquired a Oliver 540 planter, a Ford one row mounted picker, a Fairbanks Morse hammer mill. Always been fascinated with ear corn. Would like to plant a small patch for cow feed. I will be looking forward to seeing your setup in action. 👍 .
So that's your plan. It makes perfect sense to me. Hopefully it all works out with little to no breakage. Yes, we always use to run our sheller sitting on blocks and unhooked. Sometimes you just need a warm day as you said and sitting in some sunlight. That last Idea with the mixer would work fine too. Sometimes when we combine corn we would unload into the mixer because the unloading auger could reach the truck.
Thank you for the video. You're doing better than I would in the cold weather. Im not very good anymore when it gets this cold. Great ideas floating around in your head. Hopefully, nothing was smoking in there 😂😂😂😂. Take care and I'll see you later.
It's interesting to me how some practices are different in some areas of the country even for the same crop. I've only seen one of these shellers at auction in my area. Most shellers around here were ordered out of the Montgomery Wards Catalog. Ear corn was used to feed dairy cows largely and beef. I can remember my neighbor telling me how he was also given the job of driving two rows of corn down every day with an F20 so the sheep could eat it. I searched several years before finally finding a decent Minneapolis Moline Model D sheller. I usually fill two cribs a year. I use the sheller for my sheep feed. It will sheller 80 bushels of corn in about 20 minutes.
Ross, just an idea to get ear corn from the wagons to the sheller without shoveling. I see on Marketplace all the time old ear corn drags, like the ones they used to slide under cribs. Usually they want $1-300 for them. You could use that to get it from the wagons into the sheller. Also would be neat to see how the New Holland runs. Thanks for the videos
If had some extra dirt to make you a pad to pull your gravity wagons onto you could unload straight into it. Or some used cross ties you could build a pad to pull your wagons across
Boy that is a neat implement. I have never seen one of those John Deere corn shellers. That would be really cool if you get it going and mate it to that B and shell some corn. Is the ground frozen enough to get over that field and pick some?
I worked my keester off and picked 12 loads of ear corn ....something like 1500 bu, and dumped it on the barn floor to feed to my beef calves. Needless to say I got an offer that screamed Take the money and run so I have corn and only a few calves to feed. I guess I'll make a hopper for the feeder house on the 6620. I have one crib to move for sure a long one 6 foot wide 16 foot high and 48 foot long and I figured out that my 800 bu wire crib on a rented farm is still standing so I have the hard part to accomplish yet.
There is a niche market for ear corn north of you. Plenty of feed stores getting $8 an onion sack full. They can’t keep up. About the first of the year it slows a bit since hunting is done.
In our area the old wire round corn cribs sell for basically scrap price. We don't even try to sell ear corn and random people want to buy it for deer and other animals.
Hey Ross, I was wondering why you hadn't thought about your sheller on the feedmill! We had a JD 43 sheller like that for a short time. Dad built our first grain bin in 73, and I was still in HS. We had 2 large cribs of ear corn and wanted to shell it an put it in the bin. The only problem we had was that large cast pulley on the front broke. I tried to weld it, with nickel rod, heated the pulley in the oven, peened it, put it back in the oven, and gradually turned down the heat so it cooled slowly. It ran for awhile and broke again, so I made a new one out of a new pressed steel pulley and a weld a hub. That got the cribs empty, and we never used it again. A friend of mine got the bright idea of selling squirrel corn. She bought an old NI picker, and bags to sell it in, but it didn't work out, every store she asked about it said they wanted a dependable supply, and not a little one horse operator. When I was a kid, we had a wagon lift that was hydraulic. You pulled the wagon over it, and lined up the front axle over the saddle on it, then it had a hand pump to raise it up to the axle, then lift the wagon to dump. Its still in an old shed, I'm thinking its possibly a David Bradley?? Question for you, I sent a comment to you from your JD B video. It didn't get posted. Is it you tube that decides what they're going to publish? It has happened a couple of times, and I have heard that they're making changes again from other ppl that post videos on TH-cam. Getting a picker going, and filling your wagons might be worth beating those poor stupid birds too it, it would be worth having to buy a few tarps to use for cover of them. Good luck Ross, warmer days are on the way! 😊😊 But not soon enough! 😢
I've been looking a while for a #43 JD sheller, no luck - I've also seen 3pt hitch versions as well. If a fella has one around NE Iowa, I'd be interested.
Absolutely impressed with your enthusiasm four projects and this kind of weather it shows your endurance and fortitude for making content for us viewers I have had an idea for something that you might want to try for your John Deere b I have considered that possibly your magneto might need to be cleaned on the inside around the magnets and the pickups it is not difficult to do but will require removing the mag removing the rotor unbolting the the clamps or hold Downs on the back side that hold the shaft magnets add impulse mechanism in one piece can be extracted shine up the magnets and inside the magneto housing make sure there is no rust accumulated and make certain that everything is clean before reassembly also check how strong the magnets are possibly the can get weak over time and not produce a good hot spark would love to speak with you if you have any more questions not very good at leaving comments but I will try to do better keep up the good work love your videos sometimes I let them play all day as I go about my day thank you so very much good luck don't get discouraged we are all out here rooting for you
I use my John Deere B quite a bit I have towed a my dads 10ft allis disk tedded hay raked hay and also tried running are square baler didn’t work to well also trying it on my silage chopper fouled a plug before I could really try it but they are strong little tractors
Find a local feed store and sell some chemical 250-gallon totes full of ear corn and add a supply of plastic bags. Calculate how many ears are in the tote, My FIL always said it took 100 ears to make a bushel of corn, and if you weighed a sample of maybe 5 one hundred ear sample you could arrive at a profitable price for you and the store owner could make some money. Twelve ears at $6 X 8 would be about $48 a bushel. Sell it to some store at $30 a bushel and he could make $18 for every 100 ears. Even if he sold it at a Baker's Dozen he would get 7 bags at $6 he would still make $12 a bag. And, if you ground Chicken Corn and bagged it you could still calculate using 100 ears to a bushel and make more than the $3 a bushel you would get if you combine shelled it and hauled it to an elevator. If you bagged it yourself as squirrel corn or bagged it as Chicken Corn, and set it in some structure at the end of your lane, and sold it with a cash box HONOR SYSTEM, you just might create your own market. An area watermelon grower has tables that he has various grades of mellons on and honor systems it. Evidently he makes money at it. People drive for miles to get the famous John Brown melons. Get bags printed up that have "Ross Reikers Famous Local grown Squirrel Corn"
@@danw6014 Now to convert that to modern hybrid ears.... But if he ground it into Chicken Feed would it weigh the same? He might have to add some additional nutrients for feed. Any way it works, it would beat what one gets at the elevator.
@@danw6014 I was wondering what the average number of ears it would take to make a bushel of shelled corn. My FIL quit farming in the 60s when he lost 400 acres to the family squabble of the old sisters whose nephew forced the estate of their father to be settled and got the ground. The FIL's idea of a great crop of corn was 100 bushels. We planted corn at our place and in the 80s he wanted to show my wife and our kids how corn was shucked. He was doing 3 rows of corn while I was doing 2 and he was always stopping and helping me catch up. He was pulling in the third row with his leg. I did about 8 acres with my Oliver 73 two-row picker.-husker We had ear corn storage in the old barn. We hauled pickup loads to the feed mill for cattle feed for the kids 4-H cows and also feed for the hens and dressing chickens my wife and daughter had. Like Ross, we found that we could cash rent our little patch to the neighbor with big equipment and have a guaranteed income. Maybe "Squirelly Corn by Ross" would make him pick everything he owned.
Another great video and thank you for sharing. It’s been really cold here in western NY as well and next week is going to get even colder. I’m looking forward to seeing what happens with corn shuckers!!
You’re the Man!! Keep up the good work!!
Thanks Ross for doing these videos in the frozen tundra.
Love those mid to late 60’s Olivers
The cold weather may be affecting your plans! However you have the corn and the equipment to make it happen. Looking forward to your project. Of course I am biased to you using the New Holland!
My granddaughter went crazy when she saw your thumb nail - 🤣🤣🤣🤣although she was very disappointed when it wasn't the frozen movie - 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've done this. Had a guy who would bring me wagons. I'd pick them full and weight them again. He would sit and package a few ears for the farm stores. It's a ton of work and they want consistent nice looking ears. There was plenty that got thrown into a sheller any way. A saved a wagon full last fall that went through my White sheller. Lots of work and rather messy but it was fun. If I do more I need to find a manure spreader for the cobs and shucks. I look forward to seeing the grinder sheller working.
Ross, that New Holland might be the way to shell the corn 😉 thanks Michael
awesome video love it you getting the old iron you saved from the scrapper an hopefully make it go again
Be looking forward to seeing all that equipment in action!
I've been wanting to see the New Holland sheller work. Pick away!
@@ThatOliverGuyChris I hope I can get it accomplished!
@rosstheoliverman pretend it's your nose!
Always good to have choices Ross, can't wait to see those machines in action.
Good video Ross. I am so ready for spring. So over this cold business. Thanks for sharing.
I applaud your enthusiasm for these winter projects! Anything frozen in the ground will wait in my world.
I think everyone in my area is sick of the cold and snow as well as the ice. You really tickle me with your statements denigrating yourself, I like it, we should all be so humble. I am going to love to see the JD 43 sheller working, I love watching those old treasures come back to life. Good luck with it, I hope you have a good evening!
Thanks for the braving the cold for us farm equipment junkies. I can’t wait to see you get started on that sheller and see the little B hooked to it. Also enjoyed the hydraulic coupler rebuilds. I enjoy all your content. Thanks again and stay safe and healthy.
Hey Ross - I have that exact same John Deere corn sheller - and you are correct that it's a model 43. I bought mine about 30 years ago from a farmer in the neighboring county so I could shell ear corn to feed my pigs. I painted mine when I got it and didn't have to do too much else to it. It's fully functional and has been sitting upstairs on the barn floor, where it's been since the last time I used it. It's kind of a time capsule.
RoSs just n the house and try to keep warm for a few days..
Nice work
We appreciate the effort. I recently acquired a Oliver 540 planter, a Ford one row mounted picker, a Fairbanks Morse hammer mill. Always been fascinated with ear corn. Would like to plant a small patch for cow feed. I will be looking forward to seeing your setup in action. 👍 .
Thank you for braving the elements Ross! Enjoy your content!
Wow. I'm in the middle of saving an old New Idea 175 elevator that was long left for dead. It's been a good time......
Make the New Idea better .👍
So that's your plan. It makes perfect sense to me. Hopefully it all works out with little to no breakage. Yes, we always use to run our sheller sitting on blocks and unhooked. Sometimes you just need a warm day as you said and sitting in some sunlight. That last Idea with the mixer would work fine too. Sometimes when we combine corn we would unload into the mixer because the unloading auger could reach the truck.
I had onejust like yours. Worked great! Kinda made a corn mess tho. Work on black walnuts also
Thank you for the video. You're doing better than I would in the cold weather. Im not very good anymore when it gets this cold. Great ideas floating around in your head. Hopefully, nothing was smoking in there 😂😂😂😂. Take care and I'll see you later.
I cant wait for the "Hoosier Kanootsin Pickin Roundup Day" video when you pick all that corn. lol Thanks for all you do.
PB blaster from the "mall" :-)
Never seen one. Thanks for showing.
Thanks Ross
@@NA-sy2fm thanks for watching!
It's interesting to me how some practices are different in some areas of the country even for the same crop. I've only seen one of these shellers at auction in my area. Most shellers around here were ordered out of the Montgomery Wards Catalog. Ear corn was used to feed dairy cows largely and beef. I can remember my neighbor telling me how he was also given the job of driving two rows of corn down every day with an F20 so the sheep could eat it. I searched several years before finally finding a decent Minneapolis Moline Model D sheller. I usually fill two cribs a year. I use the sheller for my sheep feed. It will sheller 80 bushels of corn in about 20 minutes.
Ross, just an idea to get ear corn from the wagons to the sheller without shoveling. I see on Marketplace all the time old ear corn drags, like the ones they used to slide under cribs. Usually they want $1-300 for them. You could use that to get it from the wagons into the sheller. Also would be neat to see how the New Holland runs. Thanks for the videos
I look forward to see it all come together.
DeanDeare4020 uses the old JD equipment to pick ear corn and later shell it. Can't wait to see you try it too. 😊
doing fine keep up the good work
Rosss' brain got a great Idea... wow
@@glennschlorf1285 🤣🤣🤣
Just use the loader tractor to pick up the gravity wagon full of ear corn and let it flow into the sheller. We need to test out those welds:)!
Ross, I've saw them John Deere rocking type wagon dumps go north of $500 on auction
Yeah, Ross is lubricating some equipment 😊😊😊😊😊
Waiting to see which. Machine wins the contest to work
If had some extra dirt to make you a pad to pull your gravity wagons onto you could unload straight into it. Or some used cross ties you could build a pad to pull your wagons across
@@bryanlindon6461 I thought about that, I actually have a place that I could pull the wagon up higher than the Sheller and make it work.
That would make it handy. I’m I don’t know how many hundred miles away from you In Kentucky and I’m excited about it lol
My brains finest hour lol
@@billbaas1402 🤣🤣🤣
Be fun to have a John Deere 101 corn picker on the B
Definitely be interested in buying gravity wagon quantities
Boy that is a neat implement. I have never seen one of those John Deere corn shellers. That would be really cool if you get it going and mate it to that B and shell some corn. Is the ground frozen enough to get over that field and pick some?
I worked my keester off and picked 12 loads of ear corn ....something like 1500 bu, and dumped it on the barn floor to feed to my beef calves. Needless to say I got an offer that screamed Take the money and run so I have corn and only a few calves to feed. I guess I'll make a hopper for the feeder house on the 6620.
I have one crib to move for sure a long one 6 foot wide 16 foot high and 48 foot long and I figured out that my 800 bu wire crib on a rented farm is still standing so I have the hard part to accomplish yet.
There is a niche market for ear corn north of you. Plenty of feed stores getting $8 an onion sack full. They can’t keep up. About the first of the year it slows a bit since hunting is done.
In our area the old wire round corn cribs sell for basically scrap price. We don't even try to sell ear corn and random people want to buy it for deer and other animals.
Nice video Ross
Hey Ross, I was wondering why you hadn't thought about your sheller on the feedmill! We had a JD 43 sheller like that for a short time. Dad built our first grain bin in 73, and I was still in HS. We had 2 large cribs of ear corn and wanted to shell it an put it in the bin. The only problem we had was that large cast pulley on the front broke. I tried to weld it, with nickel rod, heated the pulley in the oven, peened it, put it back in the oven, and gradually turned down the heat so it cooled slowly. It ran for awhile and broke again, so I made a new one out of a new pressed steel pulley and a weld a hub. That got the cribs empty, and we never used it again. A friend of mine got the bright idea of selling squirrel corn. She bought an old NI picker, and bags to sell it in, but it didn't work out, every store she asked about it said they wanted a dependable supply, and not a little one horse operator. When I was a kid, we had a wagon lift that was hydraulic. You pulled the wagon over it, and lined up the front axle over the saddle on it, then it had a hand pump to raise it up to the axle, then lift the wagon to dump. Its still in an old shed, I'm thinking its possibly a David Bradley?? Question for you, I sent a comment to you from your JD B video. It didn't get posted. Is it you tube that decides what they're going to publish? It has happened a couple of times, and I have heard that they're making changes again from other ppl that post videos on TH-cam. Getting a picker going, and filling your wagons might be worth beating those poor stupid birds too it, it would be worth having to buy a few tarps to use for cover of them. Good luck Ross, warmer days are on the way! 😊😊 But not soon enough! 😢
that was funny
I've been looking a while for a #43 JD sheller, no luck - I've also seen 3pt hitch versions as well. If a fella has one around NE Iowa, I'd be interested.
Absolutely impressed with your enthusiasm four projects and this kind of weather it shows your endurance and fortitude for making content for us viewers I have had an idea for something that you might want to try for your John Deere b I have considered that possibly your magneto might need to be cleaned on the inside around the magnets and the pickups it is not difficult to do but will require removing the mag removing the rotor unbolting the the clamps or hold Downs on the back side that hold the shaft magnets add impulse mechanism in one piece can be extracted shine up the magnets and inside the magneto housing make sure there is no rust accumulated and make certain that everything is clean before reassembly also check how strong the magnets are possibly the can get weak over time and not produce a good hot spark would love to speak with you if you have any more questions not very good at leaving comments but I will try to do better keep up the good work love your videos sometimes I let them play all day as I go about my day thank you so very much good luck don't get discouraged we are all out here rooting for you
I use my John Deere B quite a bit I have towed a my dads 10ft allis disk tedded hay raked hay and also tried running are square baler didn’t work to well also trying it on my silage chopper fouled a plug before I could really try it but they are strong little tractors
Fire up the torpedo heater and thaw it out. Make sure nothing has been thrown in the sheller.
@@christinamoneyhan5688 I need to get one of those torpedo heaters for stuff like this
@ you bet !👍
Is the ground froze enough to hold you up ?
Pick it and grind it for the beef cows.
Much frozen sadness
Bag it and sell it to the gas stations during deer season
Find a local feed store and sell some chemical 250-gallon totes full of ear corn and add a supply of plastic bags. Calculate how many ears are in the tote, My FIL always said it took 100 ears to make a bushel of corn, and if you weighed a sample of maybe 5 one hundred ear sample you could arrive at a profitable price for you and the store owner could make some money. Twelve ears at $6 X 8 would be about $48 a bushel. Sell it to some store at $30 a bushel and he could make $18 for every 100 ears. Even if he sold it at a Baker's Dozen he would get 7 bags at $6 he would still make $12 a bag. And, if you ground Chicken Corn and bagged it you could still calculate using 100 ears to a bushel and make more than the $3 a bushel you would get if you combine shelled it and hauled it to an elevator.
If you bagged it yourself as squirrel corn or bagged it as Chicken Corn, and set it in some structure at the end of your lane, and sold it with a cash box HONOR SYSTEM, you just might create your own market. An area watermelon grower has tables that he has various grades of mellons on and honor systems it. Evidently he makes money at it. People drive for miles to get the famous John Brown melons.
Get bags printed up that have "Ross Reikers Famous Local grown Squirrel Corn"
70 lbs of ear corn should shell out to 56 lbs.
@@danw6014 Now to convert that to modern hybrid ears.... But if he ground it into Chicken Feed would it weigh the same? He might have to add some additional nutrients for feed. Any way it works, it would beat what one gets at the elevator.
@bigun447 average test weight on modern hybrids is still 56 lbs.
@@danw6014 I was wondering what the average number of ears it would take to make a bushel of shelled corn. My FIL quit farming in the 60s when he lost 400 acres to the family squabble of the old sisters whose nephew forced the estate of their father to be settled and got the ground.
The FIL's idea of a great crop of corn was 100 bushels. We planted corn at our place and in the 80s he wanted to show my wife and our kids how corn was shucked. He was doing 3 rows of corn while I was doing 2 and he was always stopping and helping me catch up. He was pulling in the third row with his leg.
I did about 8 acres with my Oliver 73 two-row picker.-husker We had ear corn storage in the old barn. We hauled pickup loads to the feed mill for cattle feed for the kids 4-H cows and also feed for the hens and dressing chickens my wife and daughter had.
Like Ross, we found that we could cash rent our little patch to the neighbor with big equipment and have a guaranteed income. Maybe "Squirelly Corn by Ross" would make him pick everything he owned.
I just put this video on my charge card for you. You will not get paid because my credit score is way below -350* C.
@@christinamoneyhan5688 🤣🤣🤣
😂 Love the outro. Thanks🫡 for the entertainment