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Corn shellers

Been looking for quite some time now for an old Fulton corn sheller like the one we had when I was a kid. Finally found one yesterday but it was the sheller only, no box with it. I remember ours having a fairly good sized box that was split long ways. One side caught the shelled corn and the other side caught the cobs. At the end of the side where the shelled corn was caught it seems like there was a sliding door you could pull up to fill a bag, bucket, or whatever. On the side there was a table like platform to put your basket of ears on and the box was about waist high to where there was minimal bending while shelling on probably 2-2.5ft legs. Would any of you guys have a pic of something along these lines. Looking to build a box for it and am pretty sure I can go off of my fading memory but would like to have an actual visual to make sure.

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Jeff Driver

That one is way more high tec than mine. Mine is just an old Fulton sheller that I bought this past weekend. Although I have seen this style, not this one in particular, but "floor models" like it that are selling for anywhere from $250 up to around $500 in good working condition. I gave $35 for mine but it wasnt the cost that I really cared about it was the fact it was identical to the one we had when I was a kid. I had been looking for one for some time. Got a lot of good ol memories from days spent in the barn because of that old sheller. In the loft we had a halfcourt basketball set-up. In the fall, when basketball season rolled around it was the same time the corn came in. Dont get me wrong we didnt have acres upon acres of corn that was shelled with the ol Fulton but there would be a thousand ears +/- that would hit the loft in the fall and the elevator didnt stack it in a neat pile in the corner, so if I wanted the extra b-ball practice I had to shell and bag what was covering my court. Anyways I loved those days as hard as they were and would like to give my son the opportunity to experience a small portion of my past and how we did things. Sort of a 2 fold hands on teaching thing I guess, he learns a little about the recent history before bigger better inventions came along (even though we chose to keep using the old method of hand cranking a sheller) and he learns how much he or almost any kid has it made today.

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corn sheller

Look in foxfire books, think that's what you are looking for..
Can't remember which book though... Lost all mine in house fire a couple of years ago. Lot of work involved, a bag is easier on the back...

Wouldn't let me copy the picture but here is a link to what you may be looking for.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...em=400080401956

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