OT-Shelling Corn

Big Red Man · Oct 15, 2018

It was on my bucket list to harvest corn with my horses and wagon and I DID IT. Now to shell it. I didn't remove the husk as I harvested. Will a hand cranked sheller remove those or must they be removed by hand. If they must be removed, how is the best (easiest) way to remove the husks? Thanks

craigco · Oct 15, 2018

I once got a wagon of corn with the husks on. My sheller wouldn't shell with the husks on. Spent half a winter husking corn by hand and feeding it to the sheller.

lee little · Oct 15, 2018

In the old days they would have have husking bees. It was as much a social event as it was a way to get corn shucked. In some areas it was traditional that if a young man found a red ear they got to pick out a young lady to kiss. I read an account of one fella in east Tn. that he ran across a bushel of red corn for sale. He would stick several in his coat pockets at each bee. Others couldn't figure out why he was so lucky. He seemed to think it was a good investment.lol

IaGary · Oct 15, 2018

I believe most of the old taller free standing shellers would husk and shell.
Grandpas McCormick as well as our New Idea would husk and shell.

The smaller ones you fastened to a broad or something, may not.

Gary

formerly ny bill · Oct 15, 2018

Better be quick, she might not like it...

SVcummins · Oct 15, 2018

Always been a dream of mine to farm with horses but I don?t know if I?ll ever get to .

greenmech · Oct 15, 2018

I don't think he caught on. Ron MN

IA Roy · Oct 15, 2018

If you have a hand crank give it a try. If you can borrow one of the brand that others say will work is another option. If you don't want to husk by hand, see if a neighbor will run it thru his combine after he is done for the season. Would probably have to shovel feed it or dump into loader bucket first. If you do it again, see if you can find a hook and peg or whatever they called those husking tools and find an old guy to show you how they work. Dad could show you. He is 90 and bought a one row Woods Brothers picker somewhere between 1952 and 1954. I think he bought the WB combine in 1953. I think mom had to cook for the threshing crew 1 year after they were married. She would have been over 6 months pregnant at the time. I have seen the tool hanging in one of the old buildings sometime in the 60's. We had to pick a wet spot by hand in the 1970 and dad not bring out the tools so they must have disappeared. Our gas delivery man had been state picking champion at one time.

aFORDable · Oct 15, 2018

My old hand crank New Idea will.

Geo-TH,In · Oct 15, 2018

There was a leather device you strapped to your wrist and it had a metal hook on it. I think it was called a shuck-n-peg. While the corn was still attached to the stock in the field, you swung your wrist at corn and when the metal hook hit the corn, it would fall out of the shuck. You would catch the corn with other hand. I've used one. May not be calling it by the correct name.

Can't find anything on google. Perhaps someone knows what I'm talking about.

Leroy · Oct 15, 2018

I know what you are talking about and if you have correct spelling or not I do not know but you are close anyways. And I have tried to use them and they just slowed me down as they did not work a da. Probably some still around.

Ron/PA · Oct 15, 2018

Here's a husking peg that we can still buy from a store that serves the Amish community. Not so many years ago we were using these and picking by hand. Kind of a family day or two when we'd pick and husk by hand and eat and drink very well.

Miss the times.

used red MN · Oct 15, 2018

Husking hook, see link. I figured if you handle is Big Red you should know all about Corn Huskers. Lol. Luckily for me I have no experience in the operation of such items, I could probably learn if I needed to.
Husking hook

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