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JW in MO 
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 Topic: Shelling popcorn on a new level
Posted: 01 Apr 2019 at 7:55pm |
Got the old sheller out, darn thing threw popcorn everywhere so I fabricated a chute out of flashing. Finally figured out how to adjust it so it wouldn't leave the cobs half full and had to make belt for the fan, my uncle said the original was a round leather one but poly rope was as close as I could get. Hey Ted J, I got those white corn cobs you said you needed.
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Posted: 01 Apr 2019 at 9:23pm |
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Good job on the rope trick..that braiding together looks good...how many tries did that take?..I'm guessing the white corn cobs are for the 'outhouse'!??
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Posted: 02 Apr 2019 at 5:46am |
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That's the third rope, tried to melt the first one together, the second was too short.
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Posted: 02 Apr 2019 at 7:28am |
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My grandpa could weave barn rope back together when they broke, but this is a new one to me. I would never in a million guess you could make a belt out of one. Nice work, but how did you get the length right?
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Posted: 02 Apr 2019 at 8:32am |
I'm thinking if you get it 'close', remove, toss in water overnight, then let dry, it's shrink up just enough to be tight ?
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Posted: 02 Apr 2019 at 10:37am |
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I'm thinking if you get it 'close', remove, toss in water overnight, then let dry, it's shrink up just enough to be tight ?
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For a poly rope? Hmm...
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Posted: 02 Apr 2019 at 3:07pm |
Unit3 wrote:
My grandpa could weave barn rope back together when they broke, but this is a new one to me. I would never in a million guess you could make a belt out of one. Nice work, but how did you get the length right? |
Oh yeah, that doesn't make me feel old at all.  Poly rope is the the worst to deal with, you can't ever get all the strands melted together but it was all I had lying around that was the right size. The first one I made was too small, went on ok but where I braided it together wouldn't go around the small pulley, tried to loosen it but decided it was easier to cut another and start over.
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Posted: 02 Apr 2019 at 5:15pm |
Michael V (NM) wrote:
Good job on the rope trick..that braiding together looks good...how many tries did that take?..I'm guessing the white corn cobs are for the 'outhouse'!?? |
them white ones is "finishin" cobs. If it stays white after the last wipe, yer done! 
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Posted: 02 Apr 2019 at 9:24pm |
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What brand of sheller is that? I have 1 that looks the same that was made in sandwich, Il I believe.
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Posted: 02 Apr 2019 at 10:19pm |
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Back in the day, dad would heat up a scoop of lard and melt it down in the pop corn pan. Then a itty bitty of salt and a cup of corn. He would stir it with the handle through the lid. Then it would happen, the corn started popping and he would then dump some out and stir it again. He repeated this a few times, until he had it mostly popped. Then he melted up some butter and stirred it into the corn. 2-16 ozs bottles of RC cola and we were ready to go.
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Posted: 03 Apr 2019 at 4:20am |
DiyDave wrote:
Michael V (NM) wrote:
Good job on the rope trick..that braiding together looks good...how many tries did that take?..I'm guessing the white corn cobs are for the 'outhouse'!?? |
them white ones is "finishin" cobs. If it stays white after the last wipe, yer done! |
Now,,,that right there is FUNNY,,,,,,,, We use to sell all the corn we grew,,,,so we had to use rocks or a small branch,,,,,,,
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Posted: 03 Apr 2019 at 4:29am |
So that's why your such a hard aah never mind.
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Posted: 03 Apr 2019 at 6:37pm |
farmboy520 wrote:
What brand of sheller is that? I have 1 that looks the same that was made in sandwich, Il I believe. |
This one is also, can barely make out the lettering of Sandwich but we have one at our club show grounds that has perfect lettering and paint, never been redone.
I shelled 2 gallons of popcorn last night, my belt stretched and was useless, but it was pretty much useless anyway, didn't get rid of much of the chaff anyway but that may be due to my chute but I doubt it.
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Posted: 04 Apr 2019 at 2:13am |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2019 at 8:39am |
JW in MO wrote:
I shelled 2 gallons of popcorn last night, my belt stretched and was useless, but it was pretty much useless anyway, didn't get rid of much of the chaff anyway but that may be due to my chute but I doubt it.
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If you look close, I think you can look in the sheller and see the fan. It is not much of a fan. You would probably be better off to have a box fan or something blowing on the corn after it comes out of your chute. I usually just have a short rubbermaid tub under the sheller and a fan blowing over it to try and get what chaff I can. If it still has some that you want to get rid of, I pour from tub to tub in front of a fan or outside on a breezy day.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2019 at 8:44am |
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And how hard was it to make that chute?
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Posted: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:27am |
JW in MO You can buy a round leather belt at a store that sells and services sewing machines. About 7 bucks, and you cut it to length and join the ends with the staple thing that comes with it. Same belt used on the old treadle sewing machines.
I just bought one to replace mine on my old Sioux valve grinder machine and it works great!
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Posted: 05 Apr 2019 at 8:50pm |
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Well thanks JW!! But I don't need em anymore. The GALS decided to pitch in some $$$ and put it in there. Now I don't have to worry about it anymore.....
Yeah, rope is not a good idea. It doesn't matter what kind, it'll all stretch in time. That idea with the sewing machine belt is probably your best bet.
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Posted: 19 May 2019 at 7:52am |
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Well the chute was was a good idea gone bad, worked good for a while though. Was shelling white popcorn today and the cobs are smaller. The adjustment to shell it is ok but there is no adjustment on the back end to eject the cobs. The smaller ones tend to fall down below the wheel and out the bottom with the kernels. With the chute in place the cobs can't fall out so they end up blocking the chute and when I finally figured it out there were over a dozen cobs and about 3 pints of corn lodged in there. Come winter I will work on a different design.
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Posted: 19 May 2019 at 8:41am |
A nylon rope might work, nylon stretches, so make it a little short. I grew up making rope halters for training and dairy cattle in 4-H. Splicing rope isn't very hard.
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Posted: 19 May 2019 at 8:49am |
shameless dude wrote:
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For the outhouse???🤣🤣🤣
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Posted: 19 May 2019 at 3:52pm |
The sewing machine belt has a little steel hook, You just cut it to length and hook the ends together. Just remember, you measure once and cut twice!! 
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Posted: 19 May 2019 at 11:40pm |
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after running the smaller ears thru once and if they still have kernals on them, run several thru together again and that should take the rest of the kernals off, we had to do that several times with regular size corn using the old green sheller.
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