Did he ever use the corn sheller, I asked, or was my mind playing tricks on me?
In some places, the barn houses a corn crib and a corn sheller.
In 1872, Patch patented his first pole-mounted corn sheller.
We used a hand-cranked corn sheller to crack them.
The corn sheller can be either casted in aluminum or made from a sheet of metal.
It is equipped with the original water powered stone grinder and corn sheller.
An old-fashioned hand-cranked corn sheller will work, if you happen to have one down in the root cellar.
In later years, there also was a corn sheller and lumber yard.
Carter developed his friction-drive system with parts from a corn sheller.
Their mill had an elevator for moving grain to the upper floor, and they had a mechanical corn sheller.