Corn sheller

From Cornburning

A very basic corn sheller with a hand crank. Many of these models also had a flywheel which accept a belt that can run off a gas engine.

For larger quantities of corn, a bigger implement is used. Generally run from a steam engine, or later, gasoline tractor, a corn sheller could clean several wagon loads of corn in a day.

Corn shellers of this type use a long conveyor system, called a drag, which extends inside the ear corn storage building called a "corn crib". The ear corn is fed into this conveyor system which feeds the corn into the sheller. The cobs exit the machine on one side. Any husks are blown out into a pile. The clean corn is augured from the top of the machine into a waiting wagon. The corn quality is generally extremely high from air dried ear corn.