SCORE!!!

Bryce Frazier · Feb 19, 2015

Thats right, today was a SCORE kind of day!

Had a guy call me wanting the last of my tires (this is the guy that offered me to buy the Ferguson Plow), a 12.4 x 28 on a 6 loop rims loaded with calcium in "nice" shape. Had some side wall checking, and 1 little crack forming here and there in the tread, but still a plenty good tire...

I have been asking $200 for it. (pretty fair I thought)

He came out today to get it and told me he had some stuff to trade in his truck, so I figured I would take a look!

1st was a super cool corn sheller,
2nd was a super cool corn planter,
3rd was the EXACT SAME IH Little Wonder grinder that I picked up a few weeks ago! This one has been converted to some other power plant (not belt drive) and the flywheel came with it, he said that it came on it, but it is very, very loose, and I don't think so...

Either way, I wanted all three things, and he offered me all 3 of them AND $100 for the tire! DONE!

How did I do? Pretty good I think!

OH Boy · Feb 19, 2015

You did good on that deal.

Richard G. · Feb 19, 2015

Looks like you done good. You got everything there to make a crop and get it ready to cook.LOL
I would like to have one of those grinders. Already got a sheller like that and a larger IH sheller.
Also have a 20 inch stone mill I got to get going.
Richard in NW SC

ShadetreeRet · Feb 19, 2015

I think you did very well! I have been wanting a sheller like that for years, but someone always wants it more than me.

jal-SD · Feb 19, 2015

The small corn sheller is what we called a seed corn sheller. The small acorn shaped part was to take the smalls off of the end of the cobs and then the rest of the ear was sent through the large wheel. Smalls and flats were collected separately for use later. If you selected the largest ears while you were feeding ear corn, you were developing better genetics. You don't see too many of them any more, probably last manufactured in the 1920's and by the late 30's & early '40's there was commercially developed seed corn around that was a lot more convenient than using a single ear sheller to develop your own. (My $0.02 worth. jal-SD)

casenut1 · Feb 19, 2015

You did good. But I thought you were talking about Casey, with a hot date.

Richard G. · Feb 20, 2015

Bryce, A friend of my son who grew up about 1/2 mile from us is in Panama with his wife and child. He had me do a little work on a sheller like that last year. Took to the back country in Panama and showed some small farmers how it worked. They were amazed how it shelled corn. They had always done it by hand for their own use.
The family is down there developing clean water sources for the folks. My son went down and helped them build a house on stilts for them to live in.
Richard in NW SC

SCORE!!!

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