Worked on a corn shelling crew in February 1968 for three weeks to get in shape before going to the US Navy boot camp in San Diego, California on March 4, 1968.
All my cribs were 4.5 feet wide, by August we'd have 13% corn, 10,000 bu or so, this worked well, Model E Moline, I did a LOT of custom shelling all around central MN. Fun to see it action, keep up the good work, build larger drying vents for your cribs.
We just bought the same sheller from a guy in Nebraska for our corn picking day, a bunch of one row pickers show up for a day vintage corn picking. We cribbed it last year , this year we are shelling. Good video.
I grew up (SW Minnnesota, Edgerton) shelling corn with probably the same model machine. We started with belt drive off of a 88 Oliver. Eventually we got a pto drive from Sioux Falls and that was quite an upgrade. We were the neighborhood shellers.
Hey David! I always find these shellers to be pretty amazing. They do one thing, and they do it really well, lol! I've had a number of people reach out and say they used to own a sheller, or be part of a shelling crew that would go from farm to farm, and it's always neat to hear about it. Hard work I'm sure! Thanks for watching!
Thank God for you and your father. We used to take that kind 🌽 feed the hogs, mix it up with hog shorts , hog weeds water cook it up teaweed . Than slip Cobb feed them to the 🐄 for ruffed. Just like your video. Tell your dad to keep it between the ditches 😎🙏. Keeping on doing what you do.
Please don’t be lifting stuff that will strain or hurt your body. Especially your back! I hurt my back when I was 25 in 1991 while serving in the United States Navy. I have never the same afterwards. Now I am barely able to walk because of the pains in my body. Please be very careful! Cherish your dad and mom while you have them! Take care of them and cherish every second of the times you have them here with you! New sub…
I hear ya! Last spring I herniated a disk while making firewood for maple syrup season. It's still giving me trouble. I can do everything I need to do, but I sure wish it hadn't happened! Thanks for subscribing! I know things have been a little quiet around here lately, but I've got new videos on the way now that we're in the dark months of January & February.
I'd like to find one of those shellers but they didn't sell that many of them in Michigan as most ear corn was ground and fed to dairy cows. Up until about the year 2000 we had a market for ear corn in Toledo Ohio and they paid a premium for the cob.
Probably 50 years ago we had a wet fall. We had two 15 ft round wire cribs like yours. We set a knipko heater a few feet out to prevent fire and ducted it under the bin and up the center. The steam just rolled out of that bin.
We used to grind whole cob corn back when the farm was a dairy operation. Nowadays there are no cattle and we don't have a mill to grind anything, so the cobs get put back on the fields.
Our setup was with an even older machine that was belt drive off a super m. Our problem was the corn cribs were about 300 yards from the place we shelled so we were loading gravity wagons twice
Hi from Australia. Just found your channel, stuck in the house as it's been raining for several days now. Not complaining as we have been in drought. Interested to see your Telehandler Petibone, we have almost a identical unit we imported from USA called Skytrack. Have seen then used quite often in construction videos. It's a solid tyre fixed axle unit with a 13-meter reach build like a tank very solid. Thanks for your videos.
Thanks for watching! A lot of these older telehandlers are similar, and they ALL seem to be built like tanks. Dad actually tipped ours over on a job site with the boom extended. That was back in 2000 or so. He could've been killed. Somehow they got the thing tipped back upright again, topped off the fluids, and it fired back up. Nothing bent, no major damage. Hard to believe, but it's a testament to how tough they are. The jobs I do now are smaller scale, so it rarely goes to a work site any more. We find a million things for it to do on the farm, and often wonder how we got by without it there!
Y'know, when it comes down to it, they're really simple and pretty reliable pieces of equipment. It's getting some age on it now, and I really wish we had a shed to put it in. It needs a few holes patched in the sheet metal, and you're right, I'd like to paint it up to help protect it. Even with those few flaws though, it's a beast. These old shellers were made to do one thing and do it really well, and it shows. The main problem is that everything takes more time than a guy thinks it will, and there are always a million other priorities. At some point we'll get it completely tuned up.
Looked like your dog was having fun chasing the mice! Do you ever have cobs get under the spreader chain? We had to line the smaller spreader chains with husks to keep the cobs from getting under them when spreading on a bumpy field.
Nice video! Great setup! Do you have any more to shell this spring or did you do it all last fall? That 185 is in great shape! Looks like you have a 12ft and 14ft silo. Do you do any silage? Lucas from Twin Cities.
I've found that gorilla tape works best for patching and if you don't already, try putting a piece of thin medal under the tape on the hole first. We have a piece of almost tin like material and with the tape holding it on it'll last a long time.
I’ll have to try that. We always have aluminum coil stock lying around from construction jobs. That’s easy to bend and makes a good thin patch. I’ve heard that the seam tape for Zip System wall sheathing is really good too. Though I’ve also heard it’s almost impossible to remove if you want to make a change later, lol. I just picked up a wire feed welder recently and am planning to use it for thinner metal work on some of our equipment. It would be nice to do some patching that will be a little more permanent. Sadly, it’s a battle we’ll continue to fight until we have a decent shed. Oh well.
Same here. We made extra cribs with snow fence with a wooden tunnel under them. Start with a plank flood laid on poles. Two tall poles set deep to anchor the snow fence. You could go up three or four rings of fence, moving them in slightly as you went up for stability. Don't see that anymore, either.
Hey Charles! We have a 2 row header that came with the machine, but we haven’t used it yet. We’d love to try it out, but since we don’t have any bins to store the shelled corn, there is only one scenario where we would use the combine in the corn fields. If we fill all four cribs and still have corn in the fields, and it’s dried down to 15% moisture or less, then we would combine it and send it straight to the elevator. Last year our harvest was so poor that it wasn’t an option. This year the corn is looking really good, so it’s definitely a possibility.
@@ravenviewfarm good deal yea I dont have bins either, but in South Carolina where I'm at it does dry down later in the fall and I can go to the elevator with it. Looking forward to some 2020 harvest videos
We walked a load to get a crib empty on one load, and really overloaded a 48 F6 Ford caught h-ll from my dad for that. Custom shelter in Janesville area
I tossed that idea past Dad a couple of times. We ultimately decided against it because we like the tight turning radius with the narrow front. It would make the tractor safer and more stable to have the wide front though. Choices choices.
Worked on a corn shelling crew in February 1968 for three weeks to get in shape before going to the US Navy boot camp in San Diego, California on March 4, 1968.
Nice strategy! Were you fit and ready by the time you had to report?
All my cribs were 4.5 feet wide, by August we'd have 13% corn, 10,000 bu or so, this worked well, Model E Moline, I did a LOT of custom shelling all around central MN. Fun to see it action, keep up the good work, build larger drying vents for your cribs.
We just bought the same sheller from a guy in Nebraska for our corn picking day, a bunch of one row pickers show up for a day vintage corn picking. We cribbed it last year , this year we are shelling. Good video.
I like seeing the older equipment working. Glad dad is still hanging in there.
I grew up (SW Minnnesota, Edgerton) shelling corn with probably the same model machine. We started with belt drive off of a 88 Oliver. Eventually we got a pto drive from Sioux Falls and that was quite an upgrade. We were the neighborhood shellers.
Hey David! I always find these shellers to be pretty amazing. They do one thing, and they do it really well, lol! I've had a number of people reach out and say they used to own a sheller, or be part of a shelling crew that would go from farm to farm, and it's always neat to hear about it. Hard work I'm sure! Thanks for watching!
Been there. Done that with a similar setup. Cool to see someone is still doing this.
Those side dump wagons will fishtail on ya in a heartbeat
Thank God for you and your father. We used to take that kind 🌽 feed the hogs, mix it up with hog shorts , hog weeds water cook it up teaweed . Than slip Cobb feed them to the 🐄 for ruffed. Just like your video. Tell your dad to keep it between the ditches 😎🙏. Keeping on doing what you do.
Please don’t be lifting stuff that will strain or hurt your body. Especially your back! I hurt my back when I was 25 in 1991 while serving in the United States Navy. I have never the same afterwards. Now I am barely able to walk because of the pains in my body.
Please be very careful! Cherish your dad and mom while you have them! Take care of them and cherish every second of the times you have them here with you!
New sub…
I hear ya! Last spring I herniated a disk while making firewood for maple syrup season. It's still giving me trouble. I can do everything I need to do, but I sure wish it hadn't happened!
Thanks for subscribing! I know things have been a little quiet around here lately, but I've got new videos on the way now that we're in the dark months of January & February.
I shelled with a Moline D into the 2000s. I recognize the ballcap too. 😁 Very nice video.
I'd like to find one of those shellers but they didn't sell that many of them in Michigan as most ear corn was ground and fed to dairy cows. Up until about the year 2000 we had a market for ear corn in Toledo Ohio and they paid a premium for the cob.
Great video
There's something calming about your videos , that corn stripping machine is a beauty . 👍🇬🇧
Looks like the old sheller is doing a good job👍👍👍
The best thing about that machine is its simplicity. A handy farmer can repair or make (almost) any part of that machine.
Probably 50 years ago we had a wet fall. We had two 15 ft round wire cribs like yours. We set a knipko heater a few feet out to prevent fire and ducted it under the bin and up the center. The steam just rolled out of that bin.
Y'know, I suggested to Dad that we do something like that, and he thought I'd lost my mind. Good to know I was actually on to something!
Grind up the cobs makes a nice food for the cattle. Its equivalent to alfalfa hay in nutrition
We used to grind whole cob corn back when the farm was a dairy operation. Nowadays there are no cattle and we don't have a mill to grind anything, so the cobs get put back on the fields.
@@ravenviewfarm that's what my aunt did on her dairy farm
Man that looks like fun, great video.
looked like that SMV sign was having a good time
Our setup was with an even older machine that was belt drive off a super m. Our problem was the corn cribs were about 300 yards from the place we shelled so we were loading gravity wagons twice
Oof! That makes for some extra work! But I guess when the job needs to get done, we all just do our best to make it happen.
What about the corn cobs on the floor I the metal cage do you shell them or feed it to your animals
The old guys told me to run the sheller at max capacity so it shells clean.
Hi from Australia. Just found your channel, stuck in the house as it's been raining for several days now. Not complaining as we have been in drought. Interested to see your Telehandler Petibone, we have almost a identical unit we imported from USA called Skytrack. Have seen then used quite often in construction videos. It's a solid tyre fixed axle unit with a 13-meter reach build like a tank very solid. Thanks for your videos.
Thanks for watching! A lot of these older telehandlers are similar, and they ALL seem to be built like tanks. Dad actually tipped ours over on a job site with the boom extended. That was back in 2000 or so. He could've been killed.
Somehow they got the thing tipped back upright again, topped off the fluids, and it fired back up. Nothing bent, no major damage. Hard to believe, but it's a testament to how tough they are. The jobs I do now are smaller scale, so it rarely goes to a work site any more. We find a million things for it to do on the farm, and often wonder how we got by without it there!
That corn sheller is a dandy. Take good care of it, maybe treat it with rust reformer and give it a coat of MM yellow paint to help preserve it.
Y'know, when it comes down to it, they're really simple and pretty reliable pieces of equipment. It's getting some age on it now, and I really wish we had a shed to put it in. It needs a few holes patched in the sheet metal, and you're right, I'd like to paint it up to help protect it. Even with those few flaws though, it's a beast. These old shellers were made to do one thing and do it really well, and it shows.
The main problem is that everything takes more time than a guy thinks it will, and there are always a million other priorities. At some point we'll get it completely tuned up.
Nice Video
That corn is in pretty good shape if you ask me.
I appreciate the vote of confidence. If TH-cam allowed for "smell-o-vision" you might rethink that though, LOL.
Oh well thank God for cattle they'll make it smell worse then taste great.
Looked like your dog was having fun chasing the mice! Do you ever have cobs get under the spreader chain? We had to line the smaller spreader chains with husks to keep the cobs from getting under them when spreading on a bumpy field.
Beautiful machine! But why not feed the ear corn to cattle and direct market beef?
Nice video! Great setup! Do you have any more to shell this spring or did you do it all last fall? That 185 is in great shape! Looks like you have a 12ft and 14ft silo. Do you do any silage? Lucas from Twin Cities.
I've found that gorilla tape works best for patching and if you don't already, try putting a piece of thin medal under the tape on the hole first. We have a piece of almost tin like material and with the tape holding it on it'll last a long time.
I’ll have to try that. We always have aluminum coil stock lying around from construction jobs. That’s easy to bend and makes a good thin patch.
I’ve heard that the seam tape for Zip System wall sheathing is really good too. Though I’ve also heard it’s almost impossible to remove if you want to make a change later, lol.
I just picked up a wire feed welder recently and am planning to use it for thinner metal work on some of our equipment. It would be nice to do some patching that will be a little more permanent.
Sadly, it’s a battle we’ll continue to fight until we have a decent shed. Oh well.
Can u explain how to built circular stell mesh tank
So what was your total bushels hauled out of both cribs ... ?
I rember shelling a lot of corn through a MM shelter.
Same here. We made extra cribs with snow fence with a wooden tunnel under them. Start with a plank flood laid on poles. Two tall poles set deep to anchor the snow fence. You could go up three or four rings of fence, moving them in slightly as you went up for stability. Don't see that anymore, either.
Are yall going to try and get a corn header for your combine this year?
Hey Charles! We have a 2 row header that came with the machine, but we haven’t used it yet. We’d love to try it out, but since we don’t have any bins to store the shelled corn, there is only one scenario where we would use the combine in the corn fields. If we fill all four cribs and still have corn in the fields, and it’s dried down to 15% moisture or less, then we would combine it and send it straight to the elevator. Last year our harvest was so poor that it wasn’t an option. This year the corn is looking really good, so it’s definitely a possibility.
@@ravenviewfarm good deal yea I dont have bins either, but in South Carolina where I'm at it does dry down later in the fall and I can go to the elevator with it. Looking forward to some 2020 harvest videos
dam dad is quick changing setup to anther crib but when you have it to have it ----are you a minnesota farmer
Hey Gene! Yup, we’re just south of the Twin Cities.
Move the drags without taking them apart. Who remembers that?
Where are You located from Montgomery?
I won't say exactly, since this is the internet. But we're between Jordan and New Prague.
I know where You are. Live just down the road from my aunt and uncles
I checked on the plot book
👍👌🇨🇦❤, new sub, gr8 video
Thanks for watching! And a fond hello to our northern neighbors!
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Where in Minnesota
We're located just south of the Twin Cities.
I guess you are on highway 13
We walked a load to get a crib empty on one load, and really overloaded a 48 F6 Ford caught h-ll from my dad for that. Custom shelter in Janesville area
@@rogermorrill4700 Close! We’re just a hair east of highway 21, between Jordan and New Prague.
@@ravenviewfarm those two silos reminded me of a farm south of Montgomery. On hy 13 that had a MM sheller parked by them
Nice Old School Way love it
Thanks for watching!
Cool. I miss seeing corn cribs everywhere.
Covid?
Pigs will eat it
You need a wide front on the m my farmall h m and super m all have wide front
I tossed that idea past Dad a couple of times. We ultimately decided against it because we like the tight turning radius with the narrow front. It would make the tractor safer and more stable to have the wide front though. Choices choices.