10/17/14, 09:16 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Michigan
Posts: 904
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Originally Posted by FarmboyBill
Ah, I see it now. It IS a gem. U oughta restore it to show it. I wonder why they quit making the handles on both ends for them. Mine weighs a ton.
I bought my McD at a farm auction when I was around 21. I had gone to the sale in my 1946 Chevy pk. It had rained the day before, and the ground was still damp. It sat in the corn crib. I was getting ready to leave along with my uncle milt, and a neighbor. The corn crib say down a slope around 100ft from where we were at. Somebody asked another if they had bought anything. I said I had bought the sheller, and was going to load it and head home. Uncle Milt said Id better wait and come back for it. I said (If that pk cant get down there and get it and get back, ill leave it there. I went down to it. I was amazed how heavy it was. I guess cause of all that weight in the back the ole chevy just waltzed right out.
I used my Cub pulley on mine and my boy and his wife helped me shell a bunch of corn years ago.
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I do not restore most of my old equipment. It is old and it should look like it is. I have seen two of the one hole hand crank wooden ones that all the wood was replaced with beautiful oak and to me it is ruined.
My hand crank wooden Hocking Valley sheller was missing it's feet. I looked at my old garage that has poplar boards on it and they were just the same shade of gray that the sheller was so I had some of that same poplar 2" thick so I made new feet patterned after an ad I have for the very same sheller dated in 1912. This was in April of 2003 and I took it the next week to a great small show a group of us guys from a lot of different states did as a show & tell at a school in Midway, KY. There is a picture of it online with it's blond feet but after that little show I left it in our front yard and turned it once every week so it was all greyed up in time for our local Buckley Old Engine Show. In August those feet looked like they had always been there.
I call that a repair done well not a restoration.
Also on that same site there are pictures of the boxes I made to use with my shellers. I made three wooden boxes that are all finger jointed together and they nest into each other so they take up very little room to store them.
I went looking for the pictures but it seems gas engine magazine has deleted all but one of the pictures from the event.
The fatter me and a couple of my shellers. One of the hand held ones and one of my stackable boxes plus just the top pieces of my Hocking Valley sheller can be seen in this picture on a friend's page.
http://www.oldengine.org/members/rot...w/MVC-477X.JPG
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