John Deere 71 corn sheller

tomstractorsandtoys · Sep 25, 2020

I picked this up today from an online auction about an hour away. It looks to be in very good condition and runs nice and quiet. I have a manual ordered and hope to shell some corn this fall with it. Anyone else have one or any experience with a 71? Guessing by the decals it is one of the latter ones built. Tom

Roger Tomfohrde · Sep 25, 2020

Ran one like it for years. We had 40 feet of drag line. If set up right it could do a lot in a hurry. Only one lever for adjustment opening or the cage. We put canvas down where the hogs could not clean up afterwards.

Bob Bancroft · Sep 25, 2020

Looks like a copy of an MM. I've never seen one. The JD we had was a boxy little thing, with no intake elevator, and a tiny little blower to push the shelled corn up a pipe, which was always plugging.
So what you have is a stationary rotary combine!

NY 986 · Sep 25, 2020

I don't think that I have seen a 71 until now.

db4600 · Sep 25, 2020

After the dairy cows went Pa got one to shell out the cribs. He liked it and if I recall it did a good job.

J. Schwiebert · Sep 25, 2020

My cousin had one. He also made an enclosed wagon that the husk would blow inot. He ran it with his new John Deere 50, The year was 1956.

flying belgian · Sep 25, 2020

How did you get it home with that tire? We had a couple MM. Some custom sheller went around here with a JD. sheller on a 50 Chevy. Don't know what model.

55 50 Ron · Sep 25, 2020

I agree with Bob B. It looks a lot like a copy of an MM. We ran our MM model "D" just recently (Sept 18 at Farmamerica) and I was thinking the similar thing that the "modern" rotary combines are patterned after some older corn shellers.

tomstractorsandtoys · Sep 25, 2020

I hauled it home as I knew the tires were bad and the wheels have cage roller bearings. Tom

coonie minnie · Sep 25, 2020

Not a 71, but I've worked with my father-in-law's #6's a few times. They are bigger than the 71.

fastfarmall · Sep 26, 2020

All i know is i need the cob's, for my Alkali spots, on my farm !!

swindave · Sep 26, 2020

that is a neat find! looks like it is in good shape.
pieces of old equipment is getting harder to find,
im glad people can still find stuff like this before the scrappers get it!

NEKS · Sep 26, 2020

We had one of them JD shellers like Bob Bancroft described. I guess when the intake elevator quit working (I left home) dad got rid of it.

Jegs · Sep 26, 2020

This may sound like a stupid question but ... what does a corn sheller do?

Rich'sToys · Sep 26, 2020

(quoted from post at 07:46:57 09/26/20) This may sound like a stupid question but ... what does a corn sheller do?

Not a stupid question.
Back in the day when corn was picked on the ear and put in a corn crib, you would need to run it through a machine like this to shell it--in other words, separate the kernels from the cob. Then you could haul the shelled corn to town and sell it. Now days, this is done right in the field by the combine.
Hope that helps.

ztrmowers · Sep 26, 2020

i ran a corn sheller for several years for a guy it was mounted on truck chassis,do not remember the model seems like it was single number. oh those were the days when had lotsa energy and met alot of the surrounding folks in about 50 mile radius. now days most do not know what ear corn is

Jegs · Sep 26, 2020

Thanks Rich, That's what I was thinking just wanted to know for sure.

2late4me · Sep 26, 2020

We ran both Moline and JD custom shelling. Jd would usually provide a cleaner sample and was a good machine, just don't want any rocks in it. The main shaft ran lengthwise through the machine with no center support bearing. getting a rock in the threshing cylinder would bend the main shaft and it was a bugger to get straight again. Usually meant dismantling and removing shaft to get it in a press.
The Moline however had a carrier bearing ahead of threshing cylinder and would keep the shaft straight limiting damage to cylinder bars.
Rocks would get in the corn through the picker which was running close to the ground. Cultivating corn would provide an opportunity to roll rocksi into the row awaiting an opportunity to cause havoc to the picker or sheller

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