Finished Project: John Deere #43 Corn Sheller

OhioTractorGuy · Oct 5, 2015

It took a couple years but I finally finished the JD #43 Sheller. A few other projects got in the way but was tired of tripping over the prepared pieces in the shop so I decided to make it a priority this fall. Everything was disassembled, cleaned, sandblasted, primed/painted, reassembled, repainted, final assembled, and decaled. I am awaiting a couple more decals to apply to the shields to make it officially finished -- but I couldn't wait to take pictures. Everything spins over good but I have not run any corn thru it yet. I also left a couple bullet holes in the corn hopper/on the cob elevator. . . I know they were not there from the factory but thought they were a cool part of the sheller's past. I like matching a period correct implement with each of my tractors; it looks happy with the 430 Utility.
Trying a new way of loading pictures to the post. . . hope it works!

OhioTractorGuy · Oct 5, 2015

Couple other views.

Bob Harvey · Oct 5, 2015

VERY NICE piece of work. Congrats !

leon · Oct 6, 2015

Not only is the sheller looking great, great pictures too. Thanks for letting us see it.

tomstractorsandtoys · Oct 6, 2015

I am sure it did not look that good when new

. You did a great job thanks for sharing. Tom

cumminspuller · Oct 6, 2015

You did a great job on the sheller! Thanks for sharing.

old popper · Oct 6, 2015

Very nice! You did a great job.

RLA · Oct 6, 2015

All I can say is ( Mighty Fine ), to me that means a whole lot more than a excellent job...

Tom OConnor · Oct 7, 2015

Beautiful Job, You might think about taking it out to "The Gathering of the Green" next March. I am sure they would love to have it for their show. Tom

tim s · Oct 7, 2015

That is very nice,, some times it's a tougher job to restore equipment than it is a tractor. Old equipment is getting harder to find these days, it's ether rusted clear up or hauled off to scrap, as I go to the shows I find it intriguing to see equipment at them. The local tractor club is having tillage equipment to be the theme at the county fair next week, it is the last county fair of the year in Ohio, Lancaster Ohio

fixerupper · Oct 7, 2015

No, No, don't shell with it. That thing is museum quality if you did that much work on it.

OhioTractorGuy · Oct 8, 2015

I appreciate all the positive feedback. The Ohio Two Cylinder Club will be hosting the every other year show at a new location in 2016 (Wooster, Ohio) and I hope to take a couple tractors there. . . its about 30 minutes or so from home. That was one of the incentives to try and get the sheller finished.

PushnFords · Oct 8, 2015

Looks good! Personally I'd much rather see something like that used as a demonstration (our small town has a "Pioneer Days Festival" with vintage ag equipment) than sitting in a museum. Just my .02

Joneil · Oct 9, 2015

Looks great. And thanks for showing me another piece of equipment i need to buy for my 420.

Finished Project: John Deere #43 Corn Sheller

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