Corn Sheller

[nc_mtn]

Hey I got a corn sheller today
I've been waiting to get a good deal in one for a while now. It's in good condition. It seems to work fine (it spins free), and has the wood part of handle intact.

My question to you guys is: Is it possible to find a manufacture? I've seen lots in the past that have the manufacture's name somewhere, but this one does not. You can see the "HS 2" and other markings but I'm guessing from the placement on all the parts they are something like part numbers.
I also am wondering what the little "wheel" on the front side is for. It seems like a guard but I've seen lots of shellers that didn't have that part.

Thanks..

[springvalley]

This was a small sheller that the farmer use to use when they kept OP corn for next years planting. They would keep the best years when they picked by hand and would put those ears in a special little box on the wagon just for the seed ears. once the corn was dry they would shell it off the cob, the small wheel on your sheller was for taking the round kernels off the ends of the cob, the kernels in the middle of the ear are the flats. This way they kept the seed size seperate so they could plant them. Back then they had plates for the corn planter that either planted small flats, large flats, small rounds and large rounds. So that is why you had to shell the corn off in differant seed sizes. > Thanks Marc

[nc_mtn]

Thanks, I didn't really think of the need to collect different size seed. I thought you just put it all in together. I guess I thought more about the feed bag or the mill being the next step more than planting.

[farminghandyman]

think it is a CS bell,
Sheller ID - SmokStak

Corn Sheller, Grinding Mills | The C.S. Bell Co.

some people set up a corn knife, (machete) with a bolt in the tip of it and just used like a paper cutter and cut the end off the ears so all they would get is flats, and not the rounds,

and they had a drum sorter/grader as well that one could run the seeds through and sort them, http://auction.repocast.com/details.cfm?ID=803496

[rambler]

Spring Valley got it, the kernals on thye butt end don't always come off as they curve around the end of the cob, so that works them off - in addition to sorting the big rounds from the flats as he says.

--->Paul

[FarmboyBill]

I saw one today at the sale I go to serll for $14.00. It had the handle on it, But maybe not the small wheel

Where I came from, they would cut the nub and the butt ends off and feed them to hogs or chickens, Then they would shell out the middles. Many farmers used there hands for this as they were afraid of the sheller cracking the corn without the nub in place.

[nc_mtn]

There is only one hole on it to bolt to a box. It looks as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
I don't want to "destroy" it but I'd like to clean it up some. Any good ideas? Would it be best to keep the look it is now or try to take it apart and paint it all back red?

Was there a "standard" size box to go with it? I'm wanting to build one and thought about making it about the size of a bushel apple box.

[FarmboyBill]

I would say a box, the highth thereof made so that when the sheller is mounted, the cranker dosent have to bend too far, or rise up too much. AND, at least as wide as a scoop schovel.