Shelling corn with Chevy truck and John Deere sheller 4K 

Grew up on a dairy farm in Northern Illinois and we would shell corn like this every year; worked in the crib, shoveling the ear corn into the raised track down the middle of the floor, keeping an eye open for rats; big piles of cobs that we would often burn after the shelling was done. Hard work. Good memories, and good neighbors who always helped out.

Wow this brings back some really great memories. Love your channel, keep them coming

thanks for sharing. I've never seen a sheller like that one. I have an old JD model 43 sheller that is on wheels and no where near the size of yours. It runs by PTO. I used to use it when I picked corn and had pigs.

Thanks for this video. I commented on one of your earlier videos that this is the same sheller that worked in our neighborhood in northeast Nebraska when I was a kid. It was owned for many years by my Dad's second cousin Greg, from Dodge, NE. Dad always had Greg come and shell out our cribs and my brothers and I also helped many neighbors shell their cribs out with this same machine. With that Detroit diesel, you could never slug that machine and get a break from scooping. My Dad remembers running a pair of eyeglasses through that sheller. They slipped out of his pocket and he didn't miss them until later. He found them two days later when he was moving the cob pile and saw them shine in the sun. All mangled up but the lenses were not broken and still inside the frames. Guess he had the sheller adjusted just right. Thanks again. Andy

I remember all of that.deer sheller on a chevy.scoop shovel rake rats snakes bees.always in the summer.why?makes my back and shoulders hurt thinking about it.we had a great crew.i'd do it again.Thanks for another good video.

enjoyed your video, brought back lots of memories. My father owned and operated a truck mounted(chevy) john deere No.6 sheller and 3 two ton straight trucks. This was from early 50's to mid 60's. I got old enough to help scoop and rake corn during summer vacation from school. Dad bought me my first used car for the help on crew. We lived in Henderson County(west Central) Illinois Town of Raritan. All little towns around had someone with a sheller and trucks. He also had a motorized corn rake that helped the crew pull ear corn from crib to drag on sheller. This helped alot. I believe it was made by Puzzy Bros. Dads sheller ran off pto, lever inside truck cab on floor. Thanks again for video

One thing that be cool would be se a modern version of a sheller on a bumper pull or gooseneck trailer especially with how much cheaper is looks to shell corn vs using a combine

I can remember those Ole girls in the 60sand70s.they shelled a lot of corn back in schleswig Iowa.Jon H W

Our neighbors custom shelled corn. They had a Minneapolis Moline sheller, if memory serves me right it was a belt driven sheller. We shelled straight from the crib so we had to slide the drag into the crib and when one side of the crib was done we switched the drag to the other side of the crib. The owners of the sheller had big shuck wagons to catch all the shucks so they could use them for bedding for livestock. It was two brothers and one ran the sheller and the other one would run the straight truck to haul the corn to the elevator.

Great video. Brings back a lot of good memories. My father pick corn in the ear and we stored it in out side corn piles or rings and shelled it for our livestock. My father ran a corn sheller very similar to the one in the video. Where did you get yours from?? He later purchased one. It was mounted on a '48 Ford truck chasis, with a flat head straight 6 cylinder that ran the sheller. What fun days those where. Thanks for the memories.

Dad had a cousin that had the John deere sheller ( No. 7) on a IH truck.

Oh the blasphemy of using a "Case" skid steer. LOL I might be wrong but, seems to me that these old shellers produced a cleaner grain than that of today's combines. Granted it's an extra step in the process but, well worth it in the end. Some minor TLC to fix some of the grain loss due to openings, she'd be 100% perfect. Once you got your area setup, it's just the moving of the trailers/bins for the corn to be shelled and the corn ready to be stored/sold. I remember the one my grand dad had, the setup, took a bit of time but, he had everything premarked on the ground with stakes, made it easier for setup. Great video. Cheers :)

We a friend that farmed in the area that had an old Chevy truck with a Mini Mo. sheller setup and a tractor pull and powered one that He and a crew went around shelling out the corn cribs before the new crop came in. This in the 60’s and 70’s that I remember doing that. In Minnesota.

My dad picked his corn on the ear and stored it in a corn crib. When it was dried down he hired a man that did custom shelling. His corn sheller was truck mounted as is yours. The was an old International heavy duty K-series with a large straight 6 engine. The trucks engine was used to drive the sheller thru a PTO. The exhaust for the truck engine was front mounted to keep the heat away from flammable corn debris. We the sheller was loaded down it would make that old straight 6 really snort. Thanks for bringing back those memories.

SWEET old truck and good to see an old GM 2-cycle out buzzing. I think it was Farr that made the cyclone to go on the exhaust for the pre-cleaner and that sheller beats a new one all hollow because it's doing the deal and has been paid for YEARS ago! And you can fix it with a hammer and bailing wire and maybe some old tin off a shed roof and maintenance with a grease gun and oil can. The old stuff has character. The new stuff smells nice but has a payment book as thick as a lay-lite block. BLESSINGS 2 yall

I’d forgotten just how many moving parts are on those old shellers compared to the modern combine And I love that it’s Deere !!!!!!

Thanks for another great video, taking me back to what I now know was the best time of my life!

Dad ran 3 #6's over the years one after another. Did not have a Detroit on any of them though. First one was mounted on an IH K series truck. The truck engine had a governor on it for operating the sheller through the trucks 4 speed transmission. Always shell in 4th gear, or 1:1 direct. Later, his #6 shellers were pto off the 560, 806, and 1206 tractors. Keep 700 rpm on the main shaft, and 202 strokes per minute on the seives, and good men in the crib, and man, could you shell corn!

Rube Goldberg at its finest! I bet there aren't too many of those shellers still working.

Wow, this is really neat. When I was in school FFA, we used to build all kinds of things on old pick up trucks we'd remove the box and build bunk feeders, stake beds and even manure spreaders. The things one can do with a little bit of ingenuity and imagination. In your case fun to watch too.

We had a Moline sheller with pto drive. We had a wagon for husks, wagon for shells and a wagon for the corn. We used the dragline in the crib. Seems we always shelled corn on the coldest day in winter. Cobs were ground for bedding. It was a lot of work to set up.

I have a No 6 sheller on similar truck chassis for parts. Drive belts are in excellent condition. And a very good condition PTO No 6 on a truck frame trailer for sale. Has 40 feet of good drag with independent hyd motor drive--with some spare chain!

Ah yes, the Chevy combine... what could possibly go wrong?!? 😊 I once had an old farmer tell me "There's never been an engine made that's better at converting fuel into noise and smoke than a Detroit" 😂

I like the way the drag was transported

Never saw Deere shellers around my area. Sometime mid-70s Dad hired a semi-retired guy to shell cribs. It was a mid-40s Chevy ('46 or earlier style) truck with a Minneapolis-Moline "E" sheller. MM shellers were about the only brand around that area. I think the intake elevator was longer for truck mounted applications. I do not recall if the truck engine was power or it had a separate engine. I was about 10-13 yrs old and this was >45yrs ago. Around '79 we got a well used but clean MM "D" sheller, rehabbed it, and it was in use until Dad retired in '97. That Deere sheller looks like a lot more moving parts and shafts, etc compared to the MM shellers. Its doing a good job though! Great video!

Love the video, glad you are preserving a nice truck and sheller

This video makes OSHA unhappy so I hit the thumbs up. Thanks for the video. We didn't have a lot of these in my area that I know of. I find shellers like the one at my first farm job which was a Montgomery Wards. It ran off the belt pulley, had no cob elevator and the shelled corn ended up in a bushel basket. Most corn here was ground up for feeding dairy cows and other livestock. There was still a good market for ear corn here until about 20 years ago when the sheller at the Anderson's in Toledo wore out. A lot of corn picker ended up in the fence row after that. I run about 1200 bushels a year through my Minneapolis Moline model D sheller. It's a lot of work to setup, especially by myself.

American iron at it best right there !!!

Nice piece of equipment!

That is a nice Kilbros wagon with a John Deere running gear.

A good way to learn how to use a scoop 60 years ago

A blast from the past!