corn sheller

[bqz]

Anybody ever use one of these?
http://www.pleasanthillgrain.com/cor...tationary.aspx

[mustangsally17]

The Original Lee's Corn Cutter and Creamer
Made in USA
This is one of those truely indespensible kitchen tools, that once you have used it, you'll never want to do without it again. Ours has saved us many hours of work and much frustration over the years. It was a great day when we 1st happened upon ours and decided to give it a try. It is a slim wooden board, 17 inches long, with a trough the length of it and an adjustable cutter in the middle. You simply lay your corn cob in the trough and push forward through the cutter, which makes easy work of neatly slicing off the kernels. Then lift the ear, rotate the cob, and push again. It takes 4 to 6 quick strokes and you are done. The sliced off kernels feed down into a baking dish that the cutter is resting on. You can really zip along. I wince when I think back to the years I balanced my cobs on end and sliced kernels off with a butcher knife. These corn cutters work no matter what the size and maturity of your corn cobs are. Of course, smaller cobs are more work, but still slicing is a breeze, and sometimes you have smaller cobs to deal with. The cutter blade is made of stainless steel and is adjustable for kernels or cream style.
Stock # 961 Price $10.95 Quantity
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The Stainless Steel model is the same as the above, only instead of wood, the entire construction is of stainless steel.
Stock # 962 Price $15.95 Quantity
They are also sold on ebay, and recently i saw them at the day old bread store in town. It really works well...

[mustangsally17]

Lees corn cutter and creamer...quite a few options come up, you can shop for the best price.

[bqz]

mustangsally17,We have the stainless steel one ,what I'm really looking for is something to shell the corn off the cob so I can store and use it for feed.

[T-Bone 369]

We use one very similar to this to shell pop corn - it's probably shelled hundreds of bushels of it over the years. I have shelled field corn with it on occasion and it works pretty well - there is an adjustment thumbscrew on the side that allows you to increase of decrease the size of the throat for different size ears. We have it mounted on a plywood box maybe 2' long by 18"high and 18" tall. The unit mounts to the side of it so it needs to be pretty sturdy.

[Karenrbw]

I bought an antique corn sheller at an auction last year for $5.00. It is the floor model and works pretty much liked the one pictured. It has a large wheel on it to power the gears and works really fast. The kids actually think it is cool to shell corn for feed.

[two_barking_dogs]

I have several similar to your link. I purchsed mine off of ebay for about $45 shipped. All are old but they are big hunks of metal and as long as the handle is in good condition then they work.

However after using them for 2 seasons I have decided that hand cranking is hard work and am in the process of motorizing one of them. One of mine, the Black Beauty brand, has a square shaft where as the other, Fulton I think, has a round shaft. The round shaft will be easier to mount a pully to.

A couple of quick ebay links searching for corn sheller

http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-A-H-PATC...3A1%7C294%3A50

http://cgi.ebay.com/box-type-corn-sh...3A1%7C294%3A50

http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Hand-Cra...3A1%7C294%3A50

[Fae]

I have an old one that we used to use but haven't for quite a while. It still works we just don't grow our own field corn now.

[wwubben]

Originally Posted by Karenrbw

I bought an antique corn sheller at an auction last year for $5.00. It is the floor model and works pretty much liked the one pictured. It has a large wheel on it to power the gears and works really fast. The kids actually think it is cool to shell corn for feed.

I prefer the larger floor model as mentioned here.You must be careful with children using it.My sister tried to pick a stuck husk out of it while my brother was turning the crank and she had to have many stitches in her hand.

[vegfarmer]

I've got one that my Great Grandfather had and except for the rust looks exactly like the one shown. I used it as a kid and it worked fine. I just planted an acre of field corn so if it makes I will have a right arm that would make Superman green with envy.

[WisJim]

The cranked corn sheller is to get dry kernels off the cob to grind or to feed to animals, etc., while the Lee's is for fresh corn for canning or freezing or making cream corn. Two different products for different uses. Our hand crank one similar to the Pleasant Hill device works fine, will do popcorn but not real well as it doesn't adjust small enough to do it well.

[FarmboyBill]

I also have a IHC floor model that I bought used in 1980. It was at a sale, and I was fixing to leave when I met too older neighbors. They were getting to leave also, and they asked me what I had yet to get. I said I had the corn sheller down at the grainery. It had rained the night before, and they said if you try to go down there to get it, youll stay down there with it. I said if the 46 couldnt get back out she deserved to stay down there. I drove it (46 Chevy pk) down picked up the sheller, which was/is HEAVY as h ell, and went home. Last year, I had some corn I wanted to shell, around 30bu, I hooked a OLD 3in belt to the pul.ley on the big wheel, and to the pulley pn my Cub. It was barely tight as the sheller wasnt bolted down. Occasionally I had to reset the sheller, but finally got it all done. My daugher in law shoveled trhe corn from the wagon, I husked what needed to be and fed it into the hopper, and my boy kept the cobs kept up. QWhen a bucket under it got full hed pull it out and place another one, and pour the shelled corn into a tin bath tub. When the tub was full wed haul it to the grainery and throw it in.

[deaconjim]

I have used one, but it was a long time ago.