Grew up on a dairy farm in Northern Illinois and we would shell corn like this every year; worked in the crib, shoveling the ear corn into the raised track down the middle of the floor, keeping an eye open for rats; big piles of cobs that we would often burn after the shelling was done. Hard work. Good memories, and good neighbors who always helped out.
My dad picked his corn on the ear and stored it in a corn crib. When it was dried down he hired a man that did custom shelling. His corn sheller was truck mounted as is yours. The was an old International heavy duty K-series with a large straight 6 engine. The trucks engine was used to drive the sheller thru a PTO. The exhaust for the truck engine was front mounted to keep the heat away from flammable corn debris. We the sheller was loaded down it would make that old straight 6 really snort. Thanks for bringing back those memories.
Thanks for this video. I commented on one of your earlier videos that this is the same sheller that worked in our neighborhood in northeast Nebraska when I was a kid. It was owned for many years by my Dad's second cousin Greg, from Dodge, NE. Dad always had Greg come and shell out our cribs and my brothers and I also helped many neighbors shell their cribs out with this same machine. With that Detroit diesel, you could never slug that machine and get a break from scooping. My Dad remembers running a pair of eyeglasses through that sheller. They slipped out of his pocket and he didn't miss them until later. He found them two days later when he was moving the cob pile and saw them shine in the sun. All mangled up but the lenses were not broken and still inside the frames. Guess he had the sheller adjusted just right. Thanks again. Andy
Wow, this is really neat. When I was in school FFA, we used to build all kinds of things on old pick up trucks we'd remove the box and build bunk feeders, stake beds and even manure spreaders. The things one can do with a little bit of ingenuity and imagination. In your case fun to watch too.
enjoyed your video, brought back lots of memories. My father owned and operated a truck mounted(chevy) john deere No.6 sheller and 3 two ton straight trucks. This was from early 50's to mid 60's. I got old enough to help scoop and rake corn during summer vacation from school. Dad bought me my first used car for the help on crew. We lived in Henderson County(west Central) Illinois Town of Raritan. All little towns around had someone with a sheller and trucks. He also had a motorized corn rake that helped the crew pull ear corn from crib to drag on sheller. This helped alot. I believe it was made by Puzzy Bros. Dads sheller ran off pto, lever inside truck cab on floor. Thanks again for video
Dad ran 3 #6's over the years one after another. Did not have a Detroit on any of them though. First one was mounted on an IH K series truck. The truck engine had a governor on it for operating the sheller through the trucks 4 speed transmission. Always shell in 4th gear, or 1:1 direct. Later, his #6 shellers were pto off the 560, 806, and 1206 tractors. Keep 700 rpm on the main shaft, and 202 strokes per minute on the seives, and good men in the crib, and man, could you shell corn!
Our neighbors custom shelled corn. They had a Minneapolis Moline sheller, if memory serves me right it was a belt driven sheller. We shelled straight from the crib so we had to slide the drag into the crib and when one side of the crib was done we switched the drag to the other side of the crib. The owners of the sheller had big shuck wagons to catch all the shucks so they could use them for bedding for livestock. It was two brothers and one ran the sheller and the other one would run the straight truck to haul the corn to the elevator.
SWEET old truck and good to see an old GM 2-cycle out buzzing. I think it was Farr that made the cyclone to go on the exhaust for the pre-cleaner and that sheller beats a new one all hollow because it's doing the deal and has been paid for YEARS ago! And you can fix it with a hammer and bailing wire and maybe some old tin off a shed roof and maintenance with a grease gun and oil can. The old stuff has character. The new stuff smells nice but has a payment book as thick as a lay-lite block. BLESSINGS 2 yall
I remember all of that.deer sheller on a chevy.scoop shovel rake rats snakes bees.always in the summer.why?makes my back and shoulders hurt thinking about it.we had a great crew.i'd do it again.Thanks for another good video.
Oh the blasphemy of using a "Case" skid steer. LOL I might be wrong but, seems to me that these old shellers produced a cleaner grain than that of today's combines. Granted it's an extra step in the process but, well worth it in the end. Some minor TLC to fix some of the grain loss due to openings, she'd be 100% perfect. Once you got your area setup, it's just the moving of the trailers/bins for the corn to be shelled and the corn ready to be stored/sold. I remember the one my grand dad had, the setup, took a bit of time but, he had everything premarked on the ground with stakes, made it easier for setup. Great video. Cheers :)
Never saw Deere shellers around my area. Sometime mid-70s Dad hired a semi-retired guy to shell cribs. It was a mid-40s Chevy ('46 or earlier style) truck with a Minneapolis-Moline "E" sheller. MM shellers were about the only brand around that area. I think the intake elevator was longer for truck mounted applications. I do not recall if the truck engine was power or it had a separate engine. I was about 10-13 yrs old and this was >45yrs ago. Around '79 we got a well used but clean MM "D" sheller, rehabbed it, and it was in use until Dad retired in '97. That Deere sheller looks like a lot more moving parts and shafts, etc compared to the MM shellers. Its doing a good job though! Great video!
We a friend that farmed in the area that had an old Chevy truck with a Mini Mo. sheller setup and a tractor pull and powered one that He and a crew went around shelling out the corn cribs before the new crop came in. This in the 60’s and 70’s that I remember doing that. In Minnesota.
This video makes OSHA unhappy so I hit the thumbs up. Thanks for the video. We didn't have a lot of these in my area that I know of. I find shellers like the one at my first farm job which was a Montgomery Wards. It ran off the belt pulley, had no cob elevator and the shelled corn ended up in a bushel basket. Most corn here was ground up for feeding dairy cows and other livestock. There was still a good market for ear corn here until about 20 years ago when the sheller at the Anderson's in Toledo wore out. A lot of corn picker ended up in the fence row after that. I run about 1200 bushels a year through my Minneapolis Moline model D sheller. It's a lot of work to setup, especially by myself.
@@Deandeere4020 I shell it for feeding. Shelled corn cuts at least one month off the time to feed a steer. I use my feed grinder to transfer to a gravity wagon. Once the wagon is full I can grind three batches. The bin in my granary hold two batches. I also picked up a second mixer to store feed in and have as a backup mixer. I find it to be a good idea not to talk with your hand if you are standing anywhere near the sheller.
@Dan W awesome! We just have a few steers to feed so we have a 400 tank grinder and a small grain bin for the corn. Great to keep these machines alive!
Ah yes, the Chevy combine... what could possibly go wrong?!? 😊 I once had an old farmer tell me "There's never been an engine made that's better at converting fuel into noise and smoke than a Detroit" 😂
We had a Moline sheller with pto drive. We had a wagon for husks, wagon for shells and a wagon for the corn. We used the dragline in the crib. Seems we always shelled corn on the coldest day in winter. Cobs were ground for bedding. It was a lot of work to set up.
thanks for sharing. I've never seen a sheller like that one. I have an old JD model 43 sheller that is on wheels and no where near the size of yours. It runs by PTO. I used to use it when I picked corn and had pigs.
I have a No 6 sheller on similar truck chassis for parts. Drive belts are in excellent condition. And a very good condition PTO No 6 on a truck frame trailer for sale. Has 40 feet of good drag with independent hyd motor drive--with some spare chain!
Great video. Brings back a lot of good memories. My father pick corn in the ear and we stored it in out side corn piles or rings and shelled it for our livestock. My father ran a corn sheller very similar to the one in the video. Where did you get yours from?? He later purchased one. It was mounted on a '48 Ford truck chasis, with a flat head straight 6 cylinder that ran the sheller. What fun days those where. Thanks for the memories.
One thing that be cool would be se a modern version of a sheller on a bumper pull or gooseneck trailer especially with how much cheaper is looks to shell corn vs using a combine
Grew up on a dairy farm in Northern Illinois and we would shell corn like this every year; worked in the crib, shoveling the ear corn into the raised track down the middle of the floor, keeping an eye open for rats; big piles of cobs that we would often burn after the shelling was done. Hard work. Good memories, and good neighbors who always helped out.
Wow thanks for sharing! We're from Hebron IL
My dad picked his corn on the ear and stored it in a corn crib. When it was dried down he hired a man that did custom shelling. His corn sheller was truck mounted as is yours. The was an old International heavy duty K-series with a large straight 6 engine.
The trucks engine was used to drive the sheller thru a PTO.
The exhaust for the truck engine was front mounted to keep the heat away from flammable corn debris.
We the sheller was loaded down it would make that old straight 6 really snort.
Thanks for bringing back those memories.
Thanks for this video. I commented on one of your earlier videos that this is the same sheller that worked in our neighborhood in northeast Nebraska when I was a kid. It was owned for many years by my Dad's second cousin Greg, from Dodge, NE. Dad always had Greg come and shell out our cribs and my brothers and I also helped many neighbors shell their cribs out with this same machine. With that Detroit diesel, you could never slug that machine and get a break from scooping. My Dad remembers running a pair of eyeglasses through that sheller. They slipped out of his pocket and he didn't miss them until later. He found them two days later when he was moving the cob pile and saw them shine in the sun. All mangled up but the lenses were not broken and still inside the frames. Guess he had the sheller adjusted just right. Thanks again. Andy
I can remember those Ole girls in the 60sand70s.they shelled a lot of corn back in schleswig Iowa.Jon H W
Wow, this is really neat. When I was in school FFA, we used to build all kinds of things on old pick up trucks we'd remove the box and build bunk feeders, stake beds and even manure spreaders. The things one can do with a little bit of ingenuity and imagination. In your case fun to watch too.
Thanks for watching! The guys that built this thing sure had ingenuity!
enjoyed your video, brought back lots of memories. My father owned and operated a truck mounted(chevy) john deere No.6 sheller and 3 two ton straight trucks. This was from early 50's to mid 60's. I got old enough to help scoop and rake corn during summer vacation from school. Dad bought me my first used car for the help on crew. We lived in Henderson County(west Central) Illinois Town of Raritan. All little towns around had someone with a sheller and trucks. He also had a motorized corn rake that helped the crew pull ear corn from crib to drag on sheller. This helped alot. I believe it was made by Puzzy Bros. Dads sheller ran off pto, lever inside truck cab on floor. Thanks again for video
Dad ran 3 #6's over the years one after another. Did not have a Detroit on any of them though. First one was mounted on an IH K series truck. The truck engine had a governor on it for operating the sheller through the trucks 4 speed transmission. Always shell in 4th gear, or 1:1 direct. Later, his #6 shellers were pto off the 560, 806, and 1206 tractors. Keep 700 rpm on the main shaft, and 202 strokes per minute on the seives, and good men in the crib, and man, could you shell corn!
I still have an operators manual for a #6.
@Jeff Halverson wow thanks for sharing! We have a few other shellers we use also. #7, #71 and #43
Our neighbors custom shelled corn. They had a Minneapolis Moline sheller, if memory serves me right it was a belt driven sheller. We shelled straight from the crib so we had to slide the drag into the crib and when one side of the crib was done we switched the drag to the other side of the crib. The owners of the sheller had big shuck wagons to catch all the shucks so they could use them for bedding for livestock. It was two brothers and one ran the sheller and the other one would run the straight truck to haul the corn to the elevator.
That's awesome. What area are you from? The shucks make great bedding for sure!
@@Deandeere4020 Lake City, Iowa but I live in Alabama now. Where are you located?
@ras souder Northern IL. We bought the sheller from a guy in Nebraska and it only traveled around in a 25 mile radius for the last 50 years they said
SWEET old truck and good to see an old GM 2-cycle out buzzing. I think it was Farr that made the cyclone to go on the exhaust for the pre-cleaner and that sheller beats a new one all hollow because it's doing the deal and has been paid for YEARS ago! And you can fix it with a hammer and bailing wire and maybe some old tin off a shed roof and maintenance with a grease gun and oil can. The old stuff has character. The new stuff smells nice but has a payment book as thick as a lay-lite block. BLESSINGS 2 yall
Wow this brings back some really great memories. Love your channel, keep them coming
Thanks!
I like the way the drag was transported
Kind of custom set up and has a cable for pulling the drag on and off the truck
I remember all of that.deer sheller on a chevy.scoop shovel rake rats snakes bees.always in the summer.why?makes my back and shoulders hurt thinking about it.we had a great crew.i'd do it again.Thanks for another good video.
Thanks for another great video, taking me back to what I now know was the best time of my life!
Thanks for watching!
Oh the blasphemy of using a "Case" skid steer. LOL
I might be wrong but, seems to me that these old shellers produced a cleaner grain than that of today's combines. Granted it's an extra step in the process but, well worth it in the end. Some minor TLC to fix some of the grain loss due to openings, she'd be 100% perfect.
Once you got your area setup, it's just the moving of the trailers/bins for the corn to be shelled and the corn ready to be stored/sold. I remember the one my grand dad had, the setup, took a bit of time but, he had everything premarked on the ground with stakes, made it easier for setup. Great video. Cheers :)
Each time we get it running seems like we patch a few more holes haha! It really does a great job though. Thanks for watching!
Never saw Deere shellers around my area. Sometime mid-70s Dad hired a semi-retired guy to shell cribs. It was a mid-40s Chevy ('46 or earlier style) truck with a Minneapolis-Moline "E" sheller. MM shellers were about the only brand around that area. I think the intake elevator was longer for truck mounted applications. I do not recall if the truck engine was power or it had a separate engine. I was about 10-13 yrs old and this was >45yrs ago.
Around '79 we got a well used but clean MM "D" sheller, rehabbed it, and it was in use until Dad retired in '97.
That Deere sheller looks like a lot more moving parts and shafts, etc compared to the MM shellers. Its doing a good job though!
Great video!
Thanks for sharing
We a friend that farmed in the area that had an old Chevy truck with a Mini Mo. sheller setup and a tractor pull and powered one that He and a crew went around shelling out the corn cribs before the new crop came in. This in the 60’s and 70’s that I remember doing that. In Minnesota.
Rube Goldberg at its finest! I bet there aren't too many of those shellers still working.
I’d forgotten just how many moving parts are on those old shellers compared to the modern combine
And I love that it’s Deere !!!!!!
Thanks for watching!
The moving parts are still there just covered for "Safety". Lots of farmers lost fingers in the belts and chains.
@@stevefreitag8427 I’m well aware I farmed for 45 years
Dad had a cousin that had the John deere sheller ( No. 7) on a IH truck.
A blast from the past!
Thanks for watching!
This video makes OSHA unhappy so I hit the thumbs up. Thanks for the video. We didn't have a lot of these in my area that I know of. I find shellers like the one at my first farm job which was a Montgomery Wards. It ran off the belt pulley, had no cob elevator and the shelled corn ended up in a bushel basket. Most corn here was ground up for feeding dairy cows and other livestock. There was still a good market for ear corn here until about 20 years ago when the sheller at the Anderson's in Toledo wore out. A lot of corn picker ended up in the fence row after that. I run about 1200 bushels a year through my Minneapolis Moline model D sheller. It's a lot of work to setup, especially by myself.
Ya these things are kinda dangerous! We have a few other shellers as well but this one is the largest. Needs a big area to get set up!
@@Deandeere4020 I shell it for feeding. Shelled corn cuts at least one month off the time to feed a steer. I use my feed grinder to transfer to a gravity wagon. Once the wagon is full I can grind three batches. The bin in my granary hold two batches. I also picked up a second mixer to store feed in and have as a backup mixer. I find it to be a good idea not to talk with your hand if you are standing anywhere near the sheller.
@Dan W awesome! We just have a few steers to feed so we have a 400 tank grinder and a small grain bin for the corn. Great to keep these machines alive!
That is a nice Kilbros wagon with a John Deere running gear.
It really is! Thanks for letting us use it ha!
Ah yes, the Chevy combine... what could possibly go wrong?!? 😊 I once had an old farmer tell me "There's never been an engine made that's better at converting fuel into noise and smoke than a Detroit" 😂
Love the video, glad you are preserving a nice truck and sheller
Thanks 👍
We had a Moline sheller with pto drive. We had a wagon for husks, wagon for shells and a wagon for the corn. We used the dragline in the crib. Seems we always shelled corn on the coldest day in winter. Cobs were ground for bedding. It was a lot of work to set up.
It really is alot of set up! Need a big area for moving all those wagons!
thanks for sharing. I've never seen a sheller like that one. I have an old JD model 43 sheller that is on wheels and no where near the size of yours. It runs by PTO. I used to use it when I picked corn and had pigs.
This one came from Nebraska. We have a 43 also and it work pretty well too!
Nice piece of equipment!
Idler pulley at 16:14 appears to be not turning. I like your rig!
I have a No 6 sheller on similar truck chassis for parts. Drive belts are in excellent condition. And a very good condition PTO No 6 on a truck frame trailer for sale. Has 40 feet of good drag with independent hyd motor drive--with some spare chain!
Where are u located
Great video. Brings back a lot of good memories. My father pick corn in the ear and we stored it in out side corn piles or rings and shelled it for our livestock. My father ran a corn sheller very similar to the one in the video. Where did you get yours from?? He later purchased one. It was mounted on a '48 Ford truck chasis, with a flat head straight 6 cylinder that ran the sheller. What fun days those where. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for watching! It came from Nebraska.
American iron at it best right there !!!
One thing that be cool would be se a modern version of a sheller on a bumper pull or gooseneck trailer especially with how much cheaper is looks to shell corn vs using a combine
A good way to learn how to use a scoop 60 years ago
As fast as you could shovel!