How to Shell and Grind Ear Corn by Hand | Chicken Feed, Bird Food, Cornmeal | Old Sheller, Grinder
Вставка
- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- This video takes us back to November of 2021 when Ozzie gets out the antique corn sheller and grinder set up, and shows us the old way of shelling seedcorn with a hand crank. Then he sends the kernels to the grinder and grinds them up for bird food. All of Ozzie's videos are a little corny, but this one is literally the corniest yet.
Thanks for watching!
We're just thrilled to know that we're nearing 100 subscribers and we're grateful every day for all the support you've shown us!
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
uppbeat.io/t/j...
License code: PQCNMNWUZYDAOE1K
Boy am I glad to find you on you tube. I remember shuckin and grindin corn for chicken feed when I was a boy. I used a machine just like the one you show here. Oh how I wish we could go back to those days when life was as simple as a hard day's work and a great supper.
Thanks so much for finding us, and glad you enjoyed it! It's not every day, but occasionally I'll have a day that simple and there's nothing better. For me the best days are when I have a reason to use a tractor, but not all the stress of full out farming.
On my grandfather's farm we had a 16X16X12H corn crib in the huge barn & a hand cranked sheller mounted to a 3 ft x 3ft x 3ft D wooden box with sheller attached & every ear was done by hand & all the corn stalks bundled & harvested by hand to feed livestock from fields plowed with horses
Isn't that something. Just think of everything you got done with your own power. Now you hit a button on the screen on the air conditioned cab and put your feet up. I'm sure happy we got to farm the way we did. Seems more satisfying to drive your own tractor but not as grueling as farming with horses. But there are folks who get plenty of satisfaction out of bot and I respect that.
I have that exact corn sheller,mounted it on an old wooden box.Amazing stuff man has invented through the years.
I just love the old machines. Thanks for commenting. I trust yours is still doing the job.
That was Awesome!! God bless the old timers willin to teach the few that still care to learn. I'm 28 3 kids they all watched this and said they want try it!
Wow, you brought back some hidden memories. I'm 63, I think I must have been 4ish when my parents took me to see visit a relative on a farm. For some reason I enjoyed using the corn sheller. I remember my grandpa taking the time to show me how it worked. I totally forgot that memory, until I saw this video. Thank you.
That's so neat. That's really been the most fun part of youtube is folks sharing nice personal stories with us like that. I can imagine your 4 year old self liking the corn sheller. We used to do demonstration days with it and the kids would just crank and crank. They didn't so much like to grind but they wanted to watch the cob run through and kick out. Glad it brought your memory back. Thanks for sharing!
My Grandfather had one of those crank corn shellers, but I never saw him use it. As far as I know, he didn't have a hand corn sheller. He would just put on a pair of leather palm work gloves with the high gauntlets and shell the corn ears by twisting them in his hands. He had a pretty good size wooden corn crib that was used to dry the corn. Thanks for the video. Take care.
Those wooden corn cribs sure were something. That's a neat story about your grandfather. Those old-timers could shell off the seedcorn on the ends with their hands if they needed to. In the days farmers and even their kids picked corn by hand and threw it into the grain box, usually pulled by horses. By the time I came into farming in the early 50s, we already had a single-row corn picker and sometime a little later we added a Minneapolis Moline corn sheller that hooked on the PTO and boy did we go to town then. We'd take silage too. Even into the 90s we'd take both ear corn and shelled corn with the combine. It would depend on our needs and the storage we had. I made really good friends with a pig farmer who would come pick up our shelled cobs for bedding. A lot of work, very little waste.
Need more of this kind of living 😂
We got more of it than we can handle.
Fun video, thanks for sharing it.
My pleasure, I appreciate you watching.
Very interesting Oz 👍. Amazing the inventions and the manufacturing that went into these old day machines
And if you keep this stuff out of the rain they last forever!
and then you can use the cob when you go to the outhouse! I've got a sheller, but I don't have a grinder... I need to get a grinder!
Montana, makes a good one, but boy are they expensive ,I got one about 6 years ago.
Paw Paw used it for corn mash for the still.
That's neat! Hadn't given too much thought to that!
I have a similar setup that I use to grind cornmeal at a farmers market. My sheller is a Fulton (my guess yours is too) and an Apache mill. Doing it this way makes the best cornbread you'll ever had.
That's neat! Is the cornmeal pretty successful at farmers market? I ask because that's something we've thought about kind of dabbling for fun. We used to take this rig to festivals and sell "cracked corn birdfeed" to kids for about 50 cents for a 2 pound bag. Different times, and it was mainly to find a farm antique that kids liked to play with so they'd learn a little history. But I'd be curious kinda how you package and market your cornmeal, and what else is in your market stand?
@@OzziesOddities it does fairly well, just sold 7 bags so far. First hour in
@@OzziesOddities I do produce I grow, infused salts and sugars and hand carved spoons. The cornmeal is packaged at 10oz weight with a recipe on the label. Sweet southern cornbread for the fine ground, and yellow corn grits (polenta) for the coarse. It's a workout, but not many of us are still milling by hand these days. But I must say, once people hear you milling the corn, they flock to your booth!
@@gabec2494 Such a good idea! When we used to take ours around the kids would crank and crank. Back then it was more of a novelty. Local food wasn't all that popular around here in the 1990s. Now I'm sure they purchase it for baking and as a souvenir of your demonstration. Turns their cornbread into a conversation piece. I've carved a few spoons too. I be your booth would be my favorite at the whole market by a longshot.
@@OzziesOddities I appreciate that! I'm just an big fan of the "old fashioned" way of doing things. Hell, I still hand grind my coffee with my 1800s wall grinder. Carving spoons was a necessity for millenia. Now it's a dying art.... people just don't realize how much history there is that's slowly getting forgotten.
Corn just started to be in the market. thank you for sharing with us. God bless.
You are so welcome. Thank you!
As for a sweet corn variety, we planted a variety called Jubilee for many years. It has a long, fat
ear and is mighty fine tasting. The frozen corn tastes just like fresh picked and when ground makes good cornmeal. I think Ozzie is shelling field corn in that video.
Kind of a relaxing video!
Thank you! Appreciate you watching.
Thank you for the video! I was reading a book, and I couldn't understand what they were talking about! This was very educational.
Glad it helped and thanks for finding us. Can I ask the book?
I bet those school kids loved that sheller /grinder. I like the pinstriping and lettering on the box.
Nice looking ear corn, too.
Thanks 👍
Back in the early 70 , I have done that Corn seed by hand just like that with a manual machine for a 525 acres land , we where 2 young guys and my sister we were paid something like 3.25$/hour, that was a lot for that time , it would have been more economical to bought by bulk but the farmer was very rich and was teaching manual labor …
Wow must have been a neat experience. That's a whole lot of cranking!
@@OzziesOddities yes imagine the quantity it take for 525 acres ! It was taking about 2 weeks.
Now imagine planting corn with a 6 row pulled with a 1947 John deer model 40 just above walking speed , there was a custom made standing board behind the planter with some bags of seeds and I was making sure each hoppers has seeds in it. I was in the dust sometimes when it was very dry , but here in Quebec Canada it’s rarely very dry .
You must have worked for a very honest and generous man, in today's dollars, that would have been almost $18.00 per hour for farm labor. Hope you gave him your best effort.
@@donaldatkinson7937 yes that man was very generous , he was extremely rich , with a fortune cash at the bank in several millions and he was very respected by the police , city council, and other authority, you know when you have more money than the city has ever seen in their entire life in taxe collected so far , and you has paid from your own pocket for some playgrounds , then when that farmer caught a thief and he hangs him by the feets in the barn all day while the polices are waiting at the barn door asking the farmer to bring him down ….
I will alway remember when he told the 3 police officers IF YOU BRING HIM DOWN , YOU WILL LOOSE YOUR JOB . The poor guy spend about 6 hours upside down about 20 feets height …
That was the real Justice back in the 70 here in Quebec .
Damn!!
Wow that is neat. Thank you. God bless.
Thank you and blessings to you!
Thank you for this video! Makes me miss my grandpa.
Appreciate you watching. I'm sure he was a good man.
Enjoyed that.
Thank you!
This was so satisfying and delightful to watch. Thank you for sharing such a helpful video. I love that your using a hand crank for this and not a machine 💕 Have a wonderful day! I'm a first time chicken owner and I'm making my own corn feed for the chicks. Can't wait.
Good luck with your chickens! These crank shellers should be perfect for that. Thanks for stopping by.
I love your old sheller and grinder. I've never seen the hand sheller before. I'll have to keep an I out for one.
Yes! They're out there. They seem a lot more spendy the last five years or so. Used to be one or two at every farm sale. Hope you find one reasonable.
My grampa had one of these hand crank corn shellers. We would shell corn for the sheep and chickens. He told us to not stick my hand in it when my brother was cranking it.
That's the first rule! haha Thanks for stopping in.
I like your style Mr Ozzie !!
Thanks Mike. Actually we shot a little more about corn shellers, and youtube sorta fell off the radar for a while. But we've got that video ready to go now. Hope you might tune in.
Very nice video!
Thank you!
I'm a little slow but I sure do appreciate you finding us.
I like your mill set up Ozzie. I have seen shellers on an old wagon box. Having everything together makes it so much more convenient, only problem is the weight for picking up and moving.
That's exactly right! It works fine for us. We don't haul it around much anymore. But if you're going to build one of these things, make the box a 2 wheel cart. That way you'd never have to lift it, and it would set your cranks up a little higher so your back didn't have to bend as much.
I was thinking a four wheeled wagon using old iron wheels from shop carts would be nice. That or if you can find or make one, one of those baggage/freight carts they used to have at the train stations back when railroads carried most of the passengers and freight to smaller town America.
@@kevinbaker6168 Yep I think I can about picture either one you're talking about. You're way ahead of me putting it on wheels. The other thing: It is fun scooping the kernels into the mill, but it's kinda hard to scoop the bottom kernels. There are times I thought I should have made a shoot off the sheller box into the hopper on the mill. Maybe with a door. That way the shelled corn could just slide right on through. You'd just have to watch for stray cob pieces once in a while, and pick them out before they got ground in.
@@OzziesOddities the cob doesn't matter for chickens or livestock. The wife might not want extra fiber in her corn meal or grits.
Thank you for the education.
Thank you for finding us and taking the time!
Would love to have a burr mill like that one.
Thanks for saying so! One will turn up for you at an action or a farm sale when you least expect it.
And if you don't have a sheller, you can use a second ear of corn to shell the first year by gripping one against the other.
That's good thinking!
What is the name of this sheller and grinder? Love the video. So relaxing and I formative at the same time.
Thank you. The grinder is an enterprise. I don't run across them too much. That sheller doesn't have name on it. I actually cleaned up two sheller for my son to offer up to Etsy for people who want to grind their own chicken meal and birdseed. One is a little giant but this one is simalar to the one in the video, oiled up and ready to go:
www.etsy.com/listing/1661830820/antique-hibbard-spencer-corn-sheller?click_key=4b848f9f7f6a3e0ceefd96a0a613bf8c10071a9c%3A1661830820&click_sum=5e5d5075&ref=shop_home_active_9&frs=1&cns=1
@@OzziesOddities thank you so much for the info.
Tittle = How to Shell and Grind Ear Corn by Hand.
First line of speech " let me show you the Machine" LMFAO.
Sorry if that wasn't what you were looking for. I guess I consider it by hand because it's a hand crank rather than motorized. Maybe I should have added the word "crank" after hand. Certainly wasn't trying to mislead you.
@@OzziesOddities don't pay that damn idiot, no attention, people always wanting to correct someone, what did he think you were going to do, just use your hands? I have done it that way, but why would anyone make a video about it.
How can purchase it, its good manual machine
My little brother got hurt badly in one of those machines..................................It took two of us to push him through.
I'll bet he came out polka-dotted.
Que bonitacesa desgranadora de maiz dsludos desde Costa Rica
Thank you for tuning in!
how that second machine works
Where can one buy that?
Can you tell me the name of your sheller and grinder? great video
Hi Barry, hope it's not too late to help. I think the grinder is an Enterprise brand. I don't know the exact brand of the sheller but it's similar to the common Blackhawk sheller. I think a bunch of companies licensed the patent to cast shellers exactly like this one.
I have a grinder but it dosent have a flywheel and its hard to grind fine cornmeal. I also have a Wetmore Hammermill
Yeah they're all a little different, aren't they? I'll tell ya, the flywheel is really well balanced and kind of heavy on this one. It cranks pretty darn smooth.
Id put a power drill on in place of that crank handle
That's not a bad idea. This is much better exercise though. Thanks for checking out the video.
Omg!! Where can I buy this set!???
haha, I love the excitement. It's fun. Their's are some old pieces of equipment I fixed up. But you can find ones like them on eBay. The new reproductions on Amazon are called maximizer corn shellers or something like that.
How long do you dry the ears and is there a better type of corn or will any sweet corn work ok? Thanks for the info.
We're using field corn here. We usually don't test the moisture content we just let it dry good and long till it shells off very very easily. As far as sweet corn, we've tried so many varieties over the years. It's always a tradeoff. Some matures very fast, some doesn't. We stopped planting the ultra sweet varieties because those kinds seemed to really bring in the critters.
Where do you find this? ehehehe... that looks amazing.
Thank you for finding us. Look forward to watching some of your videos. Do you crack your corn with one of these?
@@OzziesOddities I’m just now getting started and so far with all the deer around I’m a little worried about trying to grow corn that being said, do you buy corn from people who actually grow it locally so maybe one day!
What make and model are those tools? I’m looking for some for my homestead farm.
The grinder I think is an Enterprise brand. The sheller isn't branded with anything special. they're both old. You can pick them up for maybe $100 on eBay, $20 at a good farm sale. There's an outfit making a new sheller called the Maximizer. I think they're around $100.
what is the make a model of that grinder? I'm a new subscriber!!! thanks for sharing!
I was told it was an Enterprise brand, but I'm not entirely sure.
@@OzziesOddities thanks!
Im supprised u dont have a stand alone sheller, as I have a metal McCormick Deering sheller
That's a good outfit! Did you get it in pretty nice shape or did you have to do some restoring?
Harbor freight tools doesn't sell a corn husker for cheap?
!
I have seen remade corn shellers. I'm not sure the brand or who sells them. I don't recall seeing a Harbor Freight version, but I guess it wouldn't shock me.
I would love to have a sheller, grinder, is there any for sale??
They do have a remake on the market. I forgot who sells it. You can get them at antique auctions, online or in person if you live in farming country. You might have to pay $50 these days for one. Sometimes they'll go north of $100 especially if they're a more collectable model sheller but you should be able to do better than that if you just want a nice one to use.
@@OzziesOddities Thank you Sir, have a blessed day.
under skin control has begun
We literally shelled corn by hand. He uses hand crank machine
we planted corn for the first time.... Our corn stalks turned out to be midgets and not doing well.. Obviously we didnt do something right
Sorry to hear that Melissa. I hope you aren't too discouraged. Seems like the longer you experiment the more the odds start going in your favor.
omg newbie dont let the cobs fall on the ground, you'll get ring worms when you wipe.🤐
Experience is a valuable teacher.
NICE!
Hi Ken, we're just kinda getting back to youtube now. Thank you and thank for finding us.