No. 30 corn sheller

[Jim Becker]

Here you go. I posted this earlier today over on a Cubfest thread:

[Super A]

Papa's Cub
The guy grinding the corn at DSCF was Buddy, a forum member(mvhighcrop). He will be hosting the LA Cubfest this coming weekend(Mar 7&8). I was the recipient of some of that fine cornmeal myself!

I have access to a fantastic open pollinated corn, grown by my great-grandfather, and still grown by my 80-something great uncle, that makes fantastic corn meal. But I can't find anyone close by with a grist mill to grind it.

Was the #30 sheller marketed for the Cub, like the 4E hammer mill?

Al

[Scrivet]

........ I'm sure that this seemed to be a HUGE improvement over manually cranking a sheller ...............

Not everybody switched over to the power driven shellers. I saw this one at a show last summer and yes, I can read the side of it. The interesting part to me is the other side, shown in the second picture.

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As best I could tell that is the bottom of a 35 gallon barrel bolted on. I hope they took the hand crank off when they used the belt

[rjfcsa]

I sure would not want to run one of those hand crankers with a belt. Stuff exactly like that is the reason there were several farmers around with missing libs. I try to be very conscientious about safety when running the flat belts, it is not something to take lightly. I don't have lots of experience running the flat belts, but were the old timers start talking I like to listen. Remember we learn from our mistakes, but learn form the mistakes of others, as I will not live long enough to make all mistake myself. I don't know why I got rambling about this but some of the farmer modified stuff I see makes me nerves.

Anyway the no. 30, as best I can tell was sold between 1940 and 1958. I wasn't aimed at the cub but any smaller horse powered tractor. It was the only sheller they sold in that time frame, well they could have been still selling the hand crank model. The older models were those 4 wheel big jobbers that kind of look like thrashing machines. In 1951 this was the only sheller they sold. The 1951 new list price for one equipped as the one in the video was approx. $221.00

Russel

[SONNY]

1940 to 58 was also what period that I was told by old time dealer who had all the catalogs of IH equipment.---the #30 had different options, like a vertical steel chain elevator or in my case the blower. cob stacker was another option,--also a bagger was available for them.
Not sure if I still have the pages that he e-mailed me or not, gotta dig among some stuff and see!
I want to get mine running again to shell large amount of chicken corn with!---I have a big ole MM 1200 unit but dont need it!---the hand sheller WITHOUT a crank is all I have to use right now! thanks; sonny

[rjfcsa]

1940 to 58 was also what period that I was told by old time dealer who had all the catalogs of IH equipment.---the #30 had different options, like a vertical steel chain elevator or in my case the blower. cob stacker was another option,--also a bagger was available for them.
Not sure if I still have the pages that he e-mailed me or not, gotta dig among some stuff and see!
I want to get mine running again to shell large amount of chicken corn with!---I have a big ole MM 1200 unit but dont need it!---the hand sheller WITHOUT a crank is all I have to use right now! thanks; sonny

Yes there was several options, one was the basic unit no fan just the sheller and you scooped the shelled corn off the ground, you could add the fan, the short sacking elevator, the long wagon elevator, the sort sacking corn thrower, the long wagon corn thrower, and the cob elevator. We have one with the sacking elevator, just not fixed up yet. I have the owners manual as well as the parts book for the shellers.

Russel

[Scrivet]

I sure would not want to run one of those hand crankers with a belt. ............ I try to be very conscientious about safety when running the flat belts, it is not something to take lightly. I don't have lots of experience running the flat belts, but were the old timers start talking I like to listen.......

That hand sheller setup may have been hooked to a hit and miss engine and turned fairly slow. I'm by no means an old timer but I watched/helped dad and my older brother use a belt driven buzz saw to sharpen cedar fence posts. Two thoughts come to mind. First static electricity, I think you're fine with the loader to ground the tractor. Just remember to put it on the ground. If you forget you could be in for a shocking revalation. We used to always have a chain on the tractors and which ever one got hooked to the saw got one end of it layed on the ground. The other thing is it looks like your belt is touching in the middle, I believe it should be tighter or use a shorter belt so it doesn't rub and create friction. You may have to drive something in the ground to keep the sheller from walking when you back the Cub to tighten the belt.
Great to preserve and show the old implements and machinery, even better to be using them

[Super A]

I have decided I just about HAVE to have a pto or belt driven corn sheller. Saw a nice JD 43 on YT, but it sold before I could pull the trigger.

Al