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.

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 ...

If the machine shown above were the most advanced sheller available, at 80 bushels of corn per day it would take 10,562,500 days or 28,938 years to shell that much corn. That’s a lot of cranking ...