Fall is just around the corner and with fall comes harvest time. This week’s historic treasure is a corn sheller, a machine designed to make the farmers work a little easier. Corn shellers came in a ...

In the market for a 1900s fainting couch or a headcheese sausage grinder? How about a brass blowtorch or a hand corn sheller? In his 60 years of auctioneering, Clarence Schlimpert has rarely seen such ...

Bruce D. Bomberger, curator at Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, say that these two tools are corn shellers. "Shelling" is the process of removing the hard, dried kernels of field corn from their ...

Mick Gallagher feeds copious amounts of corn cobs into the old and aptly named 'hit or miss' petrol-engine-powered corn-sheller for the benefit of on-lookers at the Maffra show in Gippsland, Victoria.