Corn Sheller Made From 5-Gal. Bucket

Corn Sheller Made From 5-Gal Bucket CORN PICKERS A young FARM SHOW reader caught our attention with his invention of a hand-cranked corn sheller built out of scrap material When Elvin Zimmerman 15 saw a simple bucket corn sheller his cousin made he was inspired to improve on the idea with a stand and motor He made the beater of his sheller with a 1/2-in rod with two rows of bolts with heads welded to the rod in a staggered pattern 3 in apart The bolts are about 1/2 in away from the bucket wall Zimmerman cut a piece of wood for a lid to mount on a wooden stand He cut a hole in the bottom of the bucket and stabilized it with wood and metal to support the rod He purchased a belt and pulley and connected the rod to a motor off a water pump Zimmerman cut holes in the top side of the bucket to drop the corn in through a chute and at the bottom side to fall into a wooden box Shelled corn falls through the screen bottom into a bucket “The hardest part was getting the cob to vibrate out the front ” Zimmerman says He solved the problem by running a wire from the rod to the screen bottom It creates enough vibration to shoot the cob out the front He notes that the sheller is noisy and not very fast as he feeds it one ear at a time But it works quite well “I really like to make things ” Zimmerman says And he’s learning to fix machinery with a part-time job working on diesel tractors Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Edward Zimmerman N15110 Miller Ave Owen Wis 54460 ph 715 229-9804

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