What is it?

[Tony in SD]

Have you ever used one?

 

[560Dennis]

Long time ago

 

[Brown David]

I'll take a wild guess, corn sheller?

 

[Janicholson]

Have you ever used one?

Ours was in a wooden box and had a flywheel. still hand cranked! Not good for anything beyond 30 chickens. Jim

 

[JWA]

I'm still using one as well as a hand crank grinder, grinding corn for chicken feed and other uses.

 

[Russ from MN]

Corn sheller, there was one in my uncles Grainery.

 

[JIM MN]

For ear corn, to shell kernels off the cob. Mounts on a table edge or whatever. Feed in ear corn and turn the crank.

 

[DoubleO7]

Have you ever used one?

I have shucked several pickup loads of black walnuts with a hand crank sheller very similar to that one.

There are collectors of those shellers out there as there were hundreds of different brands over the years.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Have you ever used one?

Antique knuckle peeler for sure. gm

 

[Dusty MI]

We used to spread walnuts on the farm driveway for several days allowing vehicles to drive over them which would shuch the husk off them.

 

[Mule Meat]

Grandpa had an average of 12 grandkids running around on his farm on any given Sunday. A few times he would take 10-12 bushel of corn and have a little contest to see which one of us could shell a bushel the fastest with a corn sheller.. We would all get a piece of homemade hard maple or caramel candy for our efforts..

 

[Ray(MO)]

Have you ever used one?

 

[stevieb49829]

Ours was in a wooden box and had a flywheel. still hand cranked! Not good for anything beyond 30 chickens. Jim

Just like Jim's, mine was on a stand and inside a wooden box. But I'll have to disagree with the 30 chickens limit.

I had way more energy than money as a kid, so would glean nearby cornfields for missed cobs after they were picked dragging a gunny sack down the rows. Every night after supper I sat in the basement next to that sheller feeding it cob after cob. I sold my bushels of shelled corn to the local elevator, and looking at it years later, they gave me premium price for pretty high-moisture corn. I don't remember how many bushels I sold to them, but then my siblings got into it and we were filling a small corncrib with gleaned corn, and a neighbor came by to shell it for us. What a wonderful place to have grown up. steve

 

[Janicholson]

Just like Jim's, mine was on a stand and inside a wooden box. But I'll have to disagree with the 30 chickens limit.

I had way more energy than money as a kid, so would glean nearby cornfields for missed cobs after they were picked dragging a gunny sack down the rows. Every night after supper I sat in the basement next to that sheller feeding it cob after cob. I sold my bushels of shelled corn to the local elevator, and looking at it years later, they gave me premium price for pretty high-moisture corn. I don't remember how many bushels I sold to them, but then my siblings got into it and we were filling a small corncrib with gleaned corn, and a neighbor came by to shell it for us. What a wonderful place to have grown up. steve

We had no monetary incentive, and 30 chickens. Jim

 

[rossow (mn)]

Have you ever used one?

I still have the in-a-box variety others have mentioned. It was used by my grandfather, who was born in the late 1800s, to remove husks from black walnuts. The wood needs some TLC but the metal is fine. Neat old machines.

 

[Village Blacksmith]

I have a hand crank corn sheller ---- NEW- - - never took the wire and price tag off of it. Just a collector item as I don"t have any corn.

 

[stoughtonfarmboy]

Just picked one up today. Will give it to my brother for his bird/squirrel feeding operation.

Ken