Bruce D. Bomberger, curator at Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, say that these two tools are corn shellers. "Shelling" is the process of removing the hard, dried kernels of field corn from their ...

Fall is just around the corner and with fall comes harvest time. This week’s historic treasure is a corn sheller, a machine designed to make the farmers work a little easier. Corn shellers came in a ...

My goal is to help people grow their food and get it all the way to the table using the least fossil fuel. When they sit at that table to share a meal I don’t want them to be so worn out that they are ...

Mick Gallagher feeds copious amounts of corn cobs into the old and aptly named 'hit or miss' petrol-engine-powered corn-sheller for the benefit of on-lookers at the Maffra show in Gippsland, Victoria.

In this video, I show you how to make a corn kernel remover/sheller tool on the cheap and easy to do! This corn kernel removal tool also works with smaller cobs such as mini popping corn and can be ...

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