John Deere 43 corn sheller

[chris laube]

Wanted to know if you can get parts for John Deere 43 corn
shellers I wanted to buy a used one but dont know if they are
junk or if there is something better, Im going to grow few
acres of corn and have a hammer mill and hand sheller but
Im too old for hand cranking , I saw Chinese made ones online for
shelling and they are $350-$400 and look like garbage

 

[tomstractorsandtoys]

I don't know how many new parts Deere would have but if you buy a decent unit there are few parts you should ever need. They also sold lots of them so there are some parts machines around. You might need some sheet metal parts but those could be made yourself or by a welding shop. Bearings would be available from many places. I have a Deere 71 which is a much bigger sheller.Tom

 

[Leroy]

Other states possible but not Ohio, Don't think in my 79 years I ever saw one, only pictures.

 

[anderson farms]

I want one too. I would like to restore it and use it for my sons hog feed

 

[tomstractorsandtoys]

The one I had came from Tri Green auction in London OH and in going there I saw lots of others over the years. Tom

 

[Leroy]

Was there a few times and never saw one there.

 

[caterpillar guy]

Why not just put a small bin on a combine to shell corn and then unload the crib right into the front of the combine. Much easier than fooling around with a sheller. Seems awful slow work with a sheller. An old 45or Gleaner E would make short work of what you needed for much feed. Even an old pull type combine would work.

 

[Leroy]

I had the Deere 45's and Massey SP35 with corn head and I would NEVER try to feed corn into a combine like that. TO DANGEROUS and take way more time to shell than a single hole hand crank sheller. And that hand crank sheller would do more corn in time to set up combine for that than for the hand crank that could be set up with a electric motor or even a small gas engine.

 

[Loosehandle]

They are junk, the shelled corn blower never worked. I had 2 and just sent the second one for scrap

 

[tomstractorsandtoys]

Replace the rubber paddles and they blow good. Had the same issue with mine before new paddles. Tom

 

[tstoub77]

Replace the rubber paddles and they blow good. Had the same issue with mine before new paddles. Tom

Hi Tom, I’m having the same issue now. Where did you source the new rubber paddles?

 

[tomstractorsandtoys]

Hi Tom, I’m having the same issue now. Where did you source the new rubber paddles?

Mine set came from Deere but that was 20 years ago. Not sure if they are still available or not.

 

[JIM MN]

Cut out your rubber blades L1264C out of belting. You need a very close clearance at the outside edge of all the paddles. The belting will bolt onto the three metal blades on the blower fan 7544C. You will create a vacuum to suck in the corn and make pressure to blow the corn up the pipe. Also, run your sheller at rated speed, or a little above loaded to spin the blower and cylinder at the correct speed. I had one, worked great! The parts that wear on the sheller can be fixed with a welder, as the lugs on the main cylinder, cob stacker, and corn blower.

 

[caterpillar guy]

With the elevator out of the crib just let the ears drop down to a smaller bin on the front of the feeder house or on top of the corn head and let the combine feed it into the cylinder nothing dangerous about that and easy to drive up there. Corn would fill bin unload into a grinder or wagon. doing a hundred or so bushel at a time. If there are many hogs to feed a 100 bushel is not going to last that long.

 

[tstoub77]

Cut out your rubber blades L1264C out of belting. You need a very close clearance at the outside edge of all the paddles. The belting will bolt onto the three metal blades on the blower fan 7544C. You will create a vacuum to suck in the corn and make pressure to blow the corn up the pipe. Also, run your sheller at rated speed, or a little above loaded to spin the blower and cylinder at the correct speed. I had one, worked great! The parts that wear on the sheller can be fixed with a welder, as the lugs on the main cylinder, cob stacker, and corn blower.

Thanks for the tips, now to find a puller big enough to get the fan off the shaft. . I also just noticed some cracks in the cylinder housing near where the cobs will exit to the stacker so I might be getting in deep.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

With the elevator out of the crib just let the ears drop down to a smaller bin on the front of the feeder house or on top of the corn head and let the combine feed it into the cylinder nothing dangerous about that and easy to drive up there. Corn would fill bin unload into a grinder or wagon. doing a hundred or so bushel at a time. If there are many hogs to feed a 100 bushel is not going to last that long.

I saw a video on YouTube where someone in Quebec made a heck of a sheller out of a Gleaner N series combine. They made a hopper that fit the feederhouse in place of the header and a belt conveyor dumped the ears in that from the crib. They had massive corn cribs set up to be unloaded mechanically. The harvesting was done with a French-made Bourgoin SP picker.

 

[Dave from Ohio]

A picture of the #43 Sheller I restored years back. I probably had a dozen of them over the years -- the trough at the bottom was always rusted out if they were not cleaned out before storing them. This one is equipped with the optional bagger attachment.

Still have an extra elevator, some pulleys, blower tubing, and maybe even the three point lift stand/option tucked away somewhere in the barn.

 

[nh8260]

Wanted to know if you can get parts for John Deere 43 corn
shellers I wanted to buy a used one but dont know if they are
junk or if there is something better, Im going to grow few
acres of corn and have a hammer mill and hand sheller but
Im too old for hand cranking , I saw Chinese made ones online for
shelling and they are $350-$400 and look like garbage

There are some salvage yards that have 43 sheller's they are parting out, I agree with Caterpillar guy, a small combine is your best route, you can find a decent Gleaner K combine that would do the job very well. I had a 43 sheller years ago and I was never so glad to see it leave!! It did a good job but it would get clogged up often and then you have to clean it out and get it ready to try again. I went from the 43 sheller to a Gleaner combine and honestly I'm so glad I did, much easier and a lot less work!!

 

[A . M. Aitkins]

Wanted to know if you can get parts for John Deere 43 corn
shellers I wanted to buy a used one but dont know if they are
junk or if there is something better, Im going to grow few
acres of corn and have a hammer mill and hand sheller but
Im too old for hand cranking , I saw Chinese made ones online for
shelling and they are $350-$400 and look like garbage

I have a no.43 sheller they work good just make sure the rubber flaps on the blower are good before you use it. Also they are a very loud machine so make sure you have ear protection.