Growing Corn

[lrunge]

The shelling is an issue. I have also been looking for a better way to shell than the old hand sheller. After about 10 bushels it gets old fast. I haven't found anything yet. Maybe I can get 10 hand shellers and have a shelling party...
Egon. Maybe the baseball players could help harvest but where do they go when the corn fields gone?

 

[Egon]

The golf course waiting for spring training camps!

 

[LMTC]

Go Amish! Pick it by hand.

I've spent a lot of time in the Amish area of NW Ohio (largest Amish community in the country) and have never seen them picking field corn by hand. Always seems to be a one row picker pulled by a draft horse. My brother used to grow a couple acres of sweet corn and he used a modified one row picker behind a small tractor.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

I've spent a lot of time in the Amish area of NW Ohio (largest Amish community in the country) and have never seen them picking field corn by hand. Always seems to be a one row picker pulled by a draft horse. My brother used to grow a couple acres of sweet corn and he used a modified one row picker behind a small tractor.

Amish farm different ways in different areas. Here the Amish will either pick the cobs by hand or if they are going to chop it they will use a one row binder.

 

[charlz]

The shelling is an issue. I have also been looking for a better way to shell than the old hand sheller. After about 10 bushels it gets old fast. I haven't found anything yet.

Any way to hook up a small motor to it so you don't have to hand crank? or maybe an old bicycle

 

[lrunge]

There are some antique shellers on ebay with large wheels and some can be hooked to a motor. Although, from the looks of them, very much speed and they would fall apart. Now if I could convert the old treddle sewing machine to hook up to a sheller and convince someone that it was an exercise machine for their workouts...
Oh well, I'll keep looking since I have lots of time.

 

[charlz]

There are some antique shellers on ebay with large wheels and some can be hooked to a motor. Although, from the looks of them, very much speed and they would fall apart. Now if I could convert the old treddle sewing machine to hook up to a sheller and convince someone that it was an exercise machine for their workouts...
Oh well, I'll keep looking since I have lots of time.

I did see a powered one at the fair last year or the year before.... in the 'antiques' display looked like this one:

Dodge County Antique Power Club De Voe McCormick Deering Corn Sheller

If you could find one of those or figure out how it works and build your own.

Charles