Shredder I.D.

Butch(OH) · Apr 19, 2011

Hello, We recently purchsed this McCormick Deering shredder and would like to find a manual as we plan to run it at our local show. Cant find a tag on it anywhere. Actualy all we realy need to know is the operating RPM as the rest is pretty basic. Thanks in advance.

Hayfarmer · Apr 19, 2011

Can you tell me what a "Shedder" does? I have never heard of one up here in the north west.

sflem849 · Apr 19, 2011

That is in very nice shape! Good find!!!

IH fan · Apr 19, 2011

Yeah, what do you use it for??? Never saw one in Iowa or Kansas.

Farmallhal · Apr 19, 2011

My grandfather had an exceptional hardy used IHC shedder stored in the machine shed for years. It was used on occassion when we cut and shocked corn to separate the grain from the fodder. We used it to blow the fodder up in the barn loft and was fed during the winter like hay. We had a couple of really bad drought years 1950's and I remember the fodder was about all we had for winter forage for the the cattle. My uncle gave the shredder away to someone years ago to free up the space in the machine for other equipment which was used and needed more at the time. It was certainly a very nice unit last time I saw it and looked next to new in it's bright red paint even in the 1960's when I last saw it. The shredder was the harvester equipment to the corn crop that was cut with a corn binder. Hope this helps with the understanding of it's use as a corn thashing machine at least in this part of the country, Hal.

farmall719 · Apr 19, 2011

(reply to post at 11:41:36 04/19/11)

Butch what shows our you going too in Ohio. I would like too see the shredder run.

Butch(OH) · Apr 19, 2011

It will run at Centerburg Farm Festival 3rd weekend in September, a load both days given that we get it running. We have been operating a VERY old Deering wooden shredder there for several years but it needed to be retired to display status. We also shell and grind. Pretty nice little show.
link to show

LMack · Apr 19, 2011

RPMs? All I can remember about one of these units was that you hooked the belt to the belt pulley and started it up and pulled the throttle up to full. Most of the tractors did not have tacks so we did not know what the RPMs were. I would say if the straight PTO is running at 640, the belt pulley should be about right.

sflem849 · Apr 19, 2011

(quoted from post at 18:37:38 04/19/11) RPMs? All I can remember about one of these units was that you hooked the belt to the belt pulley and started it up and pulled the throttle up to full. Most of the tractors did not have tacks so we did not know what the RPMs were. I would say if the straight PTO is running at 640, the belt pulley should be about right.

But doesn't that require knowing what size pulley to run/you are running?

LMack · Apr 19, 2011

I suppose so, but we had only one size drive pulley for each power unit. Again we just hooked it up and pulled the throttle wide open.

jbp · Apr 19, 2011

My dad owned and used an IH shredder when I was a whole lot younger. The machine pictured was the smallest IH produced and I have only seen one locally. They didn't always run with the tractor wide open. I would start slow, then watch how material was flowing across the shakers. It should float enough so that any shelled corn will separate from the fodder much as happens in a combine. That machine has a very small blower and pipe so you need enough speed to prevent the pipe from clogging up.
My advise would be to start slow then gradualy speed up until the machine does good work.
Joe

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