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FarmMan2600

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I've been planning on planting about 4 acres of corn in three
different plots and harvesting with a single row corn picker but
my dilemma is how am I going to shell it. Does anybody do
this and how do you shell it. I haven't hardly seen any belt or
pto powered shelters I've only seen hand shellers or manual
shellers. Any help is appreciated.
 
They are out there but a good one may cost some $$$. This spring a neighbor sold out and he had a JD 43 PTO drive on the factory transport that he bought as a stuck, rusted mess for junk price. He tore it apart one winter and replaced every bearing in it, put some new sheet metal where needed, and painted it. Used it for 8 years for 500 bushels a year. It sold for $1500. Machinery jockey in Pennsylvania has one like it on the lot for $2400 and they sold another good one on the factory 3-point carrier for $2200 this spring.
 
When I had a few chickens I tossed the ears into a chipper/shredder (the kind used to chip branches). Every kernel was cracked, chickens picked through it and ate all the grain.
 
There are 2 solutions 1) When the combine goes through pull however much you need off and store it; 2) Get an antique hand turned sheller convert to PTO drive and feed the corn in.
I did the second till the wife got tired of picking up the lost ears in the corners. The conversion was actually and not destructive. Pick up a PTO driveshaft with the right size spline shaft adaptor and install. Keep the hand wheel so you can convert back. I use a small Kubota "garden" tractor (13 hp. diesel) and drive the sheller at idle. It shells as fast as you are will to feed it.
 
Can you take an old pull type combine,say an AC AllCrop or something since they're so short,take the head off and put it in the corner of a shed? Build a chute to dump the corn in to in place of the head,shell it and store it in the combine grain tank. Draw it off as you need it.
 
AS far as feed chickens dad always told us to take two ears of corn and beat them against each other and let the corn fly. Lay it on the ground and run over it with the pickup. Hate to say how many bushels of ear corn I feed to the hogs. Ears of corn did not slow them down when it come to eating.
 
Feeding cob corn to pigs is a great way to waste corn and get poor feed conversion. Ever seen the droppage in the cobs/manure in the feeding area? Nothing like getting hogs to market weight in 9 months!
 
For the most part I would like the corn shelled. I would like to sell the little bit I get for deer corn or to anyone who wants it for whatever. I haven't got a picker yet but there is a new idea corn picker and an old allis chalmers (I don't remember the model) for sale. I just need a reasonable way of shelling it if it means modifying a hand sheller to run pto if it doesn't take forever. I'm pretty much doing it for fun as long as I break even and I would like to make some money. I'm 15 and have a few cows and I'm selling peas and I'm looking to invest in some more equipment for corn and that's why I'm asking now before I get to deep.
 
For the most part I would like the corn shelled. I would like to sell the little bit I get for deer corn or to anyone who wants it for whatever. I haven't got a picker yet but there is a new idea corn picker and an old allis chalmers (I don't remember the model) for sale. I just need a reasonable way of shelling it if it means modifying a hand sheller to run pto if it doesn't take forever. I'm pretty much doing it for fun as long as I break even and I would like to make some money. I'm 15 and have a few cows and I'm selling peas and I'm looking to invest in some more equipment for corn and that's why I'm asking now before I get to deep.
 
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