Treasures you find that you have forgotten!!! Corn sheller

I was moving some stuff in the garage today and found this crank corn sheller hanging on the wall. Now the old timers moment. It has to have been hung up there in the last few years as the garage was rebuilt two years ago. I have no idea where it came from. My wife does not remember ever seeing it either.

It either has to have been restored or it never was used. There is zero rust on it anywhere. There is grease on the internal taper that the handle goes on. The threads on the bolts and handle do not have paint on them. I am thinking it was never mounted or used. I have been to a couple of old hardware store sales in the last few years. So maybe I bought it at one of them.

I was able to take it all apart for pictures with just my fingers. Nothing stuck anywhere. I really think it has not been used at all.

The Brand name appears to be " Never Fail"



Shows little/or zero use from the sheller side



Top view.



Side opened up. I removed the tension spring to do this.



Completely taken apart. Nothing shows wear or where it has been repainted.



Made by Root-Heath Mfg.



Plymouth O. USA




We had one of these crank corn shellers that was used for chicken feed. It was mounted on a wooden box on legs that set about 3 feet tall. I know this one is not that one. My Aunt and her family have that one and use it regularly for their chickens.

I was looking for for one for the grand kids to use/play with. I guess I will have to build a box now. LOL

It still is a mystery where this came from. If it has much value I maybe better off to leave it in its "new" condition and find a well used one for the kids to play with.

So are these things of any value anymore??? Is this a brand anyone has heard of???

Yes, they are valuable, maybe $100. Check in antique store. Never heard of that company, Black hawk was the standard brand in SC. Probably a regional thing as to brands.

KEH

Got a similar one years ago at an auction, tried it out a couple years ago.

Plymouth tractors, which became "Silver King" were made by the Fate-Root-Heath Co.in Plymouth, Oh.

Mine is Black Hawk. It was my grandfather's, maybe even great-grandfather's. I still have the original box it fit on; the box itself is at least 70 years old. I used it a lot as a kid on the farm.

Well, 100$ Doesen't buy much anymore, I don't think the grandkids will ever wear it out. So let them experience shelling corn, it will be worth more than a hundred dollars to watch them and for their memories. jmho gobble

I just LOVE those old iron items with the words cast in. Thanks for sharing.

I was talking to a man at an antique shop.. He collects Blackhawk Shellers, and so far, he has found 27 different varities of them, mostly just small changes. He was in the process of writing a book about them.
I still have our old Blackhawk..

Some guy telephoned Rick at "Pawn Stars" (show on the History Channel) and told him he had a corn sheller that he wanted him to look at. On the way over to his place, they (Rick and the resident dufus, Chumley) stopped at the supermarket and bought an ear of sweet corn so they could try it out. Of course, it just mushed up all over everything, so they concluded that it didn't work right, and wouldn't buy it.

We've come a long ways since the olden days, but sometimes in the wrong direction.

Got one just like it. Was looking at it yesterday.
Gonna build a box soon for it. Let the grandkids shell some of our Indian corn.
Cleaned up a Black Hawk last year that went to a remote village in Panama with a friend of our son.
He said the locals were amazed how fast it would shell corn.
Richard in NW SC

Have the one that my grandpa (born late 1800s) used & I played with in his corn crib. Very much like yours & even closer to the other picture where corn can be fed into two places. Don't remember why 2?

I just saw 2 corn shellers in a Victor Colorado shop. They were priced at $35.00 each.

That sheller on Pawn Stars; they called it a 'corn shucker'. Rick claimed the farmer threw the ear, only he didn't call it an ear, I forget what he called it, into the 'shucker', the corn came off and they threw the cob to the hogs because the hogs love to eat the cob. "They eat the cob right up". In Vegas they sure don't know where their food comes from. Jim