Gene Bender I didn't own and run a sheller. I did carry many a drag section though. After the drag was pulled out of the tunnel we shoveled out the tunnel. If we were in a long crib it was quite a walk carrying a scoop of corn from the back of the crib to the front where the sheller was. We would step down into the tunnel, scoop up a scoop full, step back up and out of the tunnel and duck cross braces while we walked to the sheller. This was done when we were already tired from raking and shoveling corn. One old retired corn shelling man told me he put a 1000 bushel minimum in order for him to come to a farm. He said a farmer would call him, he would come with the sheller. When he got there no one was around so he would carry the drags himself (Minneapolis sheller) to the crib and hook them up. Farmer would finally show up and proclaim he wanted only one flare box filled with shelled corn. Retired corn sheller man said one day he shelled six different little 100 bushel jobs.
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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