2023.01.04 "Extra" Pic

Kaelble tractor

Puzzle: https://jigex.com/hgjvv

What is the machine that it is driving ?

Wondering that too. The chips don't look right for a shingle mill.

Corn sheller? Looks like cobs with a lot of husk.

44 years ago this city boy thought the country would be good for the brood so we moved to the country. A longtime several
generation, senior neighbor had a good time teasing me in the process of teaching me some farming techniques. He had several
unstyled JD of early alphabet series. In my quest to find what I needed I stumbled across a large, belt driven hammermill and had
raised some corn. The corn was put away but the 7-8' stalks were still standing.

I asked him about chopping them up and he agreed. 6 AM sharp he was at the farm with one of his JDs and a 20' as I recall belt. He
got things all hooked up and cranked up the Deere getting the mill to humming....noisy thing. He put the Deere in wide open throttle
(I guess) and I started feeding wads of stalks into the mill. The mill would suck them in, the RPMs would dip, the Deere would grunt
and the mill would spit out a wad of chaff. Was great sport.

Since we are all killing time here is another story in his teasing: Wife and I were raising 4 chillins at the time and he figured we
needed a good supply of milk. A neighbor had a sideline of raising Holstein heifers and selling them at breeding age to another
neighbor with a dairy. On one occasion another neighbor's White Face bull tore down the fence and nailed a cow at the dairy.

The friend of mine bought it for a song. Problem was the beef cattle genes got to her spiggots and they were only about 2 long
as compared to the normal length for dairy cows......milking machines couldn't deal with the short length.

He comes over one day and says he has a milk cow that he will let me borrow for as long as I want and give it back to him when
finished with it......setting me up!!!!! I milked the cow 6 AM and 6 PM, working my professional job at the time for a couple of
months. Next thing you know I am at his house asking him what he wanted for the cow......he said $800 and that was back in early
1980 time line with a milk cow that was useless otherwise. He said I could pay it out so much a whatever....forget.

Due to the genes, the milk had a very high butterfat content. On one occasion I put about half a gallon of raw milk in a clear plastic
container, in the fridge one afternoon after milking. The next morning when I opened the fridge and looked at the container, I had
about a 50% butter fat floating on the skim milk. You talk about a treat on corn flakes or rice crispies.....absolute heaven. We kept
that cow till I got tired of milking her....whenever that was.