McCormick single ear corn sheller

Thanks

Wil

I don't know what model it is, but I restored the simpler version of it, last winter. The son in law and me went to a farm sale and he found 2 derelicts...one was a New idea and the other the McCormick. Both looked like 9 miles of bad road! He bought them for both for about $25 and loaded them on the truck. Knowing I had already restored a Deere 1-B and and old Hocking Valley...of course, I got the honors of doing these new additions!

Yours looks pretty good just as it sits, unless the bearings are shot. I would sand blast it and paint it farmall red, replace the chaff blower belt and the cob chute conveyor chain and call it done. If the bearings are bad...they are just iron castings...I'd get some ball bearing pillow block bearings to replace them with...that is what I did on two of my shellers. They run smoother than they ever did originally and you never have to worry about oiling them. If it comes to that, you're in for a lot of work because even back when they made these shellers, they used the cheapest and fastest way to assemble them....they riveted the bodies together. You'll have to cut the rivets out...I used a die grinder. I put it back together with bolts and nuts. If you have to use pillow block bearings, there is a guy on ebay who sells them right and has any kind/size you could ever need. They are Korean made but of very good quality..certainly good enough for a corn sheller. But, you will have to use wider angle iron supports where the bearings sit..than what was originally used. take pictures of everything as you tear it down..so you can remember exactly where everything goes...some of the tin baffles inside can be installed upside down....don't ask me how I know..hehe! Don't throw anything away..you may need it for patterns. I motorized all of my shellers and yours is set up for a hit&miss engine...which will cost you out the ying-yang to get...unless of course grandpa's is still amongst your goodies. You could substitute a new type gas engine I guess, but they don't have the low rpm torque like the old engines did....and you don't need lots of rpms! My email is open, send me a note and your email address and I will send you photos of my efforts and where I got the bearings. Whatever you do, get that sheller in out of the weather! That's a nice one.

Thank you for the information. I will be emailing you...Yes, it is in out of the weather now. I moved it inside just shortly after I took this picture about 2 years ago. Everything is froze up as far as turning the shafts etc. It used to be free about 30+ years ago but time and weather of sitting outside all that time has it froze. I want to get it to my place sometime after harvest and start squirting everything with PB Blaster to see if I can't get it slowly unfroze over the winter. Unfortuneatly the old hit and miss engine is long gone that was probably used to run it, don't even remember one being around.

So do you know, is this a one hole or 2 hole sheller?

Thanks

Wil

From the width of it, it looks like a 2 holer to me....just look at the feed throat...is there one or two holes where the corn goes in? The McCormick I did was a one hole job.....the only real difference is that the sheller wheel has nubs on both sides to knock the kernels off. I never did truly understand why a 2 holer was ever made in the first place. For one thing, it'd be a hell of a job to hand crank it if no motor was available, and motor driven, cylinder type shellers were probably already on the market when the 2 holers were sold. Back in those days, if you were going to shell corn...that was the way to go. Belted to the tractor, they'll shell it as fast as you shovel it in....none of this feeding cobs my hand. The one holers were much more common and popular because they were easily hand cranked and mostly used for chicken feed..... it was a kids job to crank it!