Re: shelling trench in a corn crib

Posted by Migraine on December 05, 2004 at 08:17:54 from (24.18.75.6):

In Reply to: shelling trench in a corn crib posted by mile0001 on December 05, 2004 at 06:10:39:

My father and my two brothers custom shelled corn for the local grain elevators for many years in southern Iowa. The corn was put into these outside cribs in October andwas the whole ear usually with some husks and stalk fodder along. We usually shelled the following spring into summer as the farmers neded the grain. The slatted strips also provided some air movement up through the ear corn and provided a placefor the rain and melted snow to get away out the runway, as we called them. These cribs with tunnels were so much easier to shell out than the alley way corncribs. I remember those days very well as I got 1 penny per bushel and as a very young boy I was in charge of the cob wagon and later on moved to the grain wagon and finally to the shoveling into the moving drag. We could shell up to 4000 bushels of corn on a good day. We used a MM sheller which befor it died had over a million bushels through it. What fun, I think. Oh yes, you had to watch out for the rats all day as well. It.s all coming back to me now. Migraine

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