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Corn sheller The mechanical corn sheller was first patented in 1839. It is a freestanding hand-operated machine that removed individual kernels of corn by pulling the cob through a series of metal-toothed cylinders which stripped the kernels off the cob. Lester Denison, an inventor from Sayville, Conn., patented a corn sheller in 1839, and his machine is credited with starting an industry that at one time numbered several hundred manufacturers. Whole corn cobs are fed in. They are pulled between two toothed wheels, usually made of metal. Each wheel spins the opposite direction of the other. The teeth pull the kernels off the cob until there are no kernels left. The kernels fall out through a screen into a container (such as a bucket) placed underneath the machine. The cob is then ejected out, since it cannot pass through the screen. Some models have a "walker", similar to a threshing machine or combine, to take the cobs out. After harvesting corn, it would be stored in a corn crib for later use. Months later as the need arose for feed or cornmeal it would be removed from the crib and husked then shelled. My grandfather had a sheller much like the one pictured below. It was attached to a small treadmill by a flat belt. He had a nanny (female goat) that would operate the treadmill. She was so accustom to working the treadmill that once you lead her to the thrashing room she would hop up on the treadmill and stand there awaiting your call. As long as corn cobs were being fed through the sheller she would continue to walk, when I stopped to get another basket of corn she would stop too. Shelling corn was one of my Saturday chores for several years, that old nanny and I were a team.

Followed this guy the other day.

Schools closed last Friday due to the threat of a snowstorm. It started the flurries cannon about the time school would have gotten out. The last two days, school has been closed due to the bitter cold. They aren’t allowed to let kids wait for the bus below a certain wind chill. Today, we’re going to help the kids’ great grandpa haul some firewood up to the house. He’s closer to 90 than 80 and Grandma’s closer to 100 than 90 yet they still heat with wood.

e I tried to convince Mike to paint this on all his trucks.

It took me about an hour to clear the five neighbors driveways.

Some WH tractors with Sundstrand transmissions use the OMCO hydraulic valve. As I mentioned in another topic, these valves can be stacked together. @pfrederi @Handy Don @ebinmaine My 1974 C160 originally came with 1 OMCO valve. I have now stacked two of them together. The 2nd one came from a C-120 parts tractor. I took them to a hydraulic shop and matched up O-rings to rebuild them internally and O-rings to stack them together. T Below is an stacked OMCO dual valve from a C195 that I got from A-Z.. The valve on the left is the same as on my C160, The valve on the right with the longer tail piece has the float function. You could stack as many valves as you wanted between the two outside plates. You would just need 3 longer 1/4" bolt to hold them together, and more O-rings. I think some Gt-14 and maybe some D series tractors used the OMCO valves. But I've found WH also used different brands of valves on some of those tractors. This shows the bottom side of the stacked valves from the C-195. Here is a parts list Here is the Wheelhorse Hydraulic Valve and Cylinder Manual WH Hydraulic Valve and Cylinder Repair Manual.pdf Hydraulic Lift valve and Cylinder Overhaul - sundstrand transmission.pdf

I can do all that and more, but my wife still looks like this if I even say tractor.

Just a demonstration of my usual snow removal job using a 520H with a 44" two stage. The iPhone was duct taped to the windshield so you will see the vibration of the cab, but it is still good enough to share. I take care of the snow removal on the property across the road because there are geezers living there that can't do much of anything. The other two properties are mine. It is a rather big job doing all three completely, it took one hour and 17 minutes to do it all running flat out. Later today drifting is expected and I will dress things up using a plow on another 520H.

I see similar stuff out on the roads around here in Southern Maine on occasion. One that really got me good one day is that there is a plumbing company that's fairly decent sized and has quite a few vehicles. On the side of the truck there's a decal that shows a guy getting out with tools in hand. I was delivering to one of the job sites where that very person was working. Didn't that mess with my head some when I saw him get out of the truck and walk around?

On our farm there was the remains of a rotting/falling down log cabin corn crib. The corn crib had a lean too shed on one side that was part of a hog pen. Many years ago I pulled this IHC corn sheller out of it. It had a hand crank handle on the other side. The inner cogged looking wheel should have a old style round leather belt (like treadle sewing machines used) and it went down to that small lower pulley which is a blower that would blow dust out of the kernels as they fell. Although rusty, I was able to free it up with penetrating oil and it works as it should. It is missing a tray on the top that would help feed corn into the Sheller The IHC can still be faintly read on it. There was also this Red Chief hand sheller. It was rusted solid. A few years ago I freeded it up with a lot of heat from a rosebud torch. Then I went ahead and blasted and painted it since that ruined the rusty patina. The round wheel pictured below has this cast on it. Gaissler's Corn Sheller Mf'GD by Brinly Hardy Co Incorporated Louisville Kentucky PAT Nov 26 (18)98 and Nov 28 (18)88 This is the same Brinly Hardy Co that makes implements for our garden tractors today. In the 1920's there were four clapboard 2 room Share Cropper cabin's on the lower part of our farm, They were around a common well with a windmill. The log corn crib was a little ways from the 4 cabins. My mom says the land owner at that time owned roughly 500 acres and our farm was part of that. He leased the land out to those tenants to farm on shares. When Dad bought the farm in 1948, He moved those cabin's and put 2 of them together with a large room between them to make a 5 room house. It was lived in by hired help who worked with dad on the Grade A Dairy he had at that time. As a young teenager I helped dad sheetrock and rewire the inside of it to use as just a rent house. Hope I didn't get too far off you Sheller thread 953.

Gentlemen, Since we finally got some snow here in Maryland, I hooked up the plow to the Charger 12 and got to work clearing the drives. This was my first time plowing and I’m impressed how well this old tractor did with just slightly deflated ag tires and wheel weights.

You gonna paint man legs or bear legs? You’d be mistaken for the Charmin mobile!

@ebinmaine ya gotta be careful how you write things. Kinda left yourself open. Back in the working days, we got a new HR Director lady who came from a software company. So she was used to being around only office people. Shortly she decided us plant guys needed “Sensitivity Training”. That went over like a lead brick, she didn’t last long. I always wondered if she owned stock in the training company.

I mentioned this to Gretel when she posted yer mug covered in snow on FB... I coulda gave ya that $75 cab I put on the 520 up north I never get up there to use it. I also have two singles here that a guy could easily make one out of. I might get some flak for this but my single blows just as good if not maybe even a little better as the deuce. I have the deuce set up for off road use since it's got the chains on it. Took 2 hrs to do everything but two full tanks in them thirsty Onans. Actually a good thing they had last years gas in them yet. Some seafoam and some hard running did clear up the surging in the single... @dclarke s ride.

One of my favorites, had this for 50 + years, first lunch box

Wiley Coyote is my spirit animal. My grandpa always said he was fashioned after all of "us". Who else could fail so spectacularly and repeatedly try again with such dedication?

You got to Cowboy Up just tell her your buying another tractor. Then get back up dust yourself off and go buy the tractor.

Got the new tires and new seat on the 312-8.

It’s here… what to do what to do? I lost my ramps in the snowstorm. They are here somewhere! I let the snow be my buffer for unloading off a sand pile. I have a Kohler 16 from Chief that could be used. Maybe a diesel? Maybe just part it out? I don’t know.

Thankfully we don't have a dog anymore. My wife didn't say a thing when I brought the Mayrath tractor home. i had even sold one at the tractor show! . But it sure got HOT in the room.

I'm not married so I don't have that problem! 😜

Wait... you mean you guys don't already do the dishes, laundry, trash, etc...?!?! You mean to tell me you got tractors and and and you don't even have to do the dishes laundry etc... Ill just go ask Mrs Sylvan what's up with that... er... well.. uhm... oh, i gotta go pick up dog poop... only -3 out... no problem yes Dear...

The pinch dog is not only the simplest clamp there is, but also perhaps the most efficient one. They are quick and take virtually no space being able to be used in odd angles where other clamp types will slip.When driven into two separate pieces of wood the tapered design of its “legs” pinches the two pieces together tightly and holds. When edge gluing it is usually driven on the ends of pieces being glued. It has always been used by several different professions such as carpentry and upholstery. One only has to worry about not using them where their tell tale marks would not be wanted. Besides their obvious function, personally I make use of them everywhere for everything, such as using large ones as handles, tool holders, as reinforcements, and also to prevent or control checks on rough lumber. They are common but frequently overlooked ,unknown or mistakenly dismissed as useless.Although still available new, only small ones are usually found new. Large ones are usually very old and blacksmith made. They were most likely used in trades such as shipwrights . I probably own about one hundred pinch dogs but when I come across large old ones I never leave them behind. Modern machine made pinch dog Old blacksmith made Pinch dogs used at bench in tool chest Holding two boards together Used as handles Used as tool holders Controlling check in old cobblers bench Controlling large crack in cobblers bench.

Has anyone ever seen this attachment? Would this be a custom or did Wheel Horse offer a ROP for the D series?

The Plunge needs to see this ... @JCM...

Since my wife puts out food for our back yard bunnies i will not show her this thread.

If it's not OEM, someone sure did a nice job of making it look that way!! Randy

Thanks for the welcome from all. Have a picture of one of my sons and his sister playing with their new old mower on Boxing Day. As he's volunteered to mow the orchard I told him it's name was Rudolph hence the red nose and antlers

If I don't move the snow back PennDOT will simply deposit it in the driveways. Moving it before it hardens into a glacier makes sense to me.

This 3-4 incher was a breeze for the deuce Chuck. I could have used the plow, but it was much cozier in that warm cab watching the Ber-Vac doin it's thing.

Told ya, that Ber-Vac never left me down. I'm glad to see you getting some use out of it Ed. I hacked away at the rock hard Penn Dot snow banks at the end of my driveway with it and it did an awesome job

The robotics team I mentor for has not been idle. They have been allowed to keep meeting - 1pm to 9pim Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and today. Had to call yesterday off early about 5:30 'cause it started snowing enough to make the roads greasy. Time off? Nope, I will have put in almost 40 volunteer hours. Kind of like a full time job. Good thing I'm retired. I'm going to have to tell the head coach that I am falling behind in my homework. One of the team rules is to keep current with homework - that takes priority over robots.

Completely unrelated, but I used a dual spool from a D series on my Bronco. I had to make a bracket for it, but it goes in the same place as the factory single spool. It has always worked great with the standard hydraulics.

New idea for my Bear mobile!!!!

Uhm... @Pullstart...

8 more machines coming in today.

Easy job at -3 'cause it is frozen solid, doesn't squish around.....

Yup - Been there, done that!! We got Dad's 702 after he passed, I bought an 854 roller a few years later. Got the 854 running, used it for 2 years before she asked why her Dad's tractor looked rather rough. Told her it was not Dad's but one I bought! She asked when I bought it - I replied I bought it one morning while you were sleeping!! I so miss them both.......

apparently this is off topic, learning here..but want to answer about the "dip stick"...yes, it does. I was trying in my own way to assure the man, I believe Oliver, and I was not clear on that. What I mean to say was, in reviewing a lot of transmission fluid/gear oil discussions, car, tractor, etc...99% said, "you fill it up. put your finger in, and if it's below or at the first knuckle put the PLUG BACK IN..done. And that was on my mind when I wrote that. Sorry for the confusion, Absolutely my 101 has a dip stick, and I let it settle awhile, and checked it a couple of times. It is on the "F" mark. I hope that clears up my error in the discussion..now I know what Oliver said I had put in a TON of gear oil! Sorry..nope..I didn't overfill it. But thanks, Oliver, for your concern and I do understand that overfilling would undoubtedly create "pressure" especially with heat build up I presume, and seals would be a good place to relieve it. I get that, and appreciate the advice given. I will start a new "thread" about the "ease of steering" issue; 3-rib vs. V61's in snow..just to get some obviously valued opinions...

My uncle had a Jeep just like "Nelli Bell"

I have used the WH valves stacked on a Sunstrand Hydro with no issues. They are open center and the relief is in the pump. 700 psi. I like that location John @wallfish pointed out for the cylinder. That would keep it close to the oil source and hoses shorter. I am just wondering if the turning rod point on the blade could be extended a little to provide more leverage? Might be the cheapest solution. ??

Stacking valves (or a new 2-circuit valve) would be ideal. I don’t think the stock valves had that capability, nor did they have a power beyond port. (Frugal WH engineers.) If you go with a new valve, be sure to get one circuit with float--that would let you do a hard link on the plow frame for down pressure when you want it but float when you don’t. The capacity of the Sunstrand charge pump is more than adequate for another small cylinder. Be aware, though, that without an extra reservoir you’ll have to keep an eye on the the transaxle oil level when getting the new hoses & cylinder filled with the initial oil charge (if you use Pioneer-style quick connects the oil will stay in the cylinder and hoses when they are off the tractor).

A couple things to keep in mind. One, when the blade turns it tips. Need to keep play in the main pin. The hydro has plenty of pressure to turn the blade even with a short stroke. Need to keep play in the cylinder clevis too. eliminates binding on the cylinder. I took Heim joints used on a three point and welded them to the cylinder to allow play. When I turn the blade all the way to the stops I have to relive it some to make it float so it will follow the contour of the ground. The cylinder in the pic is 1 1/2 bore with a 1 inch rod.

You would need to make and weld mounts. The one at the blade should be made to connect to the index part behind the blade. You don't want to connect the ram directly to the blade itself because if the blade trips hard enough it could bend the mount, rod or break something

Finally winterized. Moved the Snapper rider and 516 to the shed. Brought out the old '77 C120 and let her run around the yard for a while. Started easily with 'the bulb'. The Restored C125 got pushed out for some sun - battery is just too old and gone. Finally removed the 520 into the garage for her restoration. Bought her for the 48" deck I restored for mowing but can't ignore that Eaton. First task is to apply weld to the exhaust studs and get that Onan checked out. There she sits.

I finally got the seat mounted to my mount I've been meaning to do. Took me a couple days, still needs some welding.

We got a blizzard up here in northern NY, so I got my no name out to test her out. Did very good in the deep snow, I was very impressed.