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dpower 
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JOHN N/IL
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Posted: 10 Oct 2012 at 9:05pm |
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Thats looks like fun but i bet it still takes a lot of work.Are you the one with the nice 8050"s.
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Dave (NE)
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Posted: 10 Oct 2012 at 9:17pm |
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Nice pic's Jason.
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dpower
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Posted: 10 Oct 2012 at 10:00pm |
We have two 8070s that are pretty nice. One power shift and one power director. Fun to plow with 
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SHAMELESS
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 12:39am |
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which one is you?
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 12:40am |
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i had a sheller..just like that one!
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JPG AUSTRALIA
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 2:45am |
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Thanks for the great pics,nice to see a neat farm running old school iron, and well kept gear at that.Also great to see farming on the other side of the world.Keep on farming D power.
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Brian F(IL)
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 7:53am |
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I worked behind a JD#6 corn sheller for a whole summer in 1978. Hardest, dirtiest, and best work I ever did.
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dpower
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 8:24am |
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The big ugly guy unloading the wooden wagon is me. A dirty job it is and i am sure there are few younger guys out there that can even put a drag feeder together lol.
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Brian F(IL)
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 8:33am |
We used a belt drag with a hydraulic orbit motor. It helped a bunch when you were getting toward the end and wanted to clean up. Had to be careful though when starting out or you could load it too heavy and it would slip.
Always seemed to me to be much easier to fill the crib than to shell it out (unless you had a long crib and had to climb upstairs to move the spout several times).
Very nice pictures of good looking AC equipment.
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dpower
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 8:51am |
We use a homemade ear corn auger. Works great. 
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Lynn Marshall
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 9:09am |
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I sure wish that there were more farmers like you out there instead of the megafarms that seem to be the rule around here.It would certainly help my repair business.
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Dennis(IA)
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 9:30am |
Great pictures, Thanks for posting. My Uncle had a MM corn sheller and he did custom shelling also. That was many years ago. I grew up north west of Schuyler, NE. not far from you. Was that corn irrigated (good ears for a dry year)? Really love your pics. Dennis
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 10:11am |
I must be getting old and grumpy! Having had my hands wrapped around a number 14 steel scoop shovel in my very early years(1951-52, 10-11 years old), until we got the first Case 600 Combine in 1967, it just looks like work to me! We had about 4 neighbors that swapped help shelling and baling, and did have fun together, a lotta joking, telling tall tales, pulling outrageous pranks on the unsuspecting, etc. But bottom line, it was a lot of hard, dirty work!
I guess that is why I loved my 78 LII so much! It was so nice to sit in the air-conditioned cab, and just drive, and watch the acres melt away. All the time knowing that the hardest thing I had to do was climb the steps up or down, and stay awake after eating too much at meal time.
Incidently, the shellers around this part of the Hoosier were all JD's mounted mostly Ford truck chasis'. And that was about the only Deere stuff you saw except for the 490 planters.
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dpower
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 12:33pm |
Thanks guys for the comments. It takes awhile to get it done but it shows the hard work we put in especially when we (dad brother and me) all have full time jobs in town to. Alot of late nights on the farm.
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 12:34pm |
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Most of the corn is irrigated which helps alot. Ya schuyler is not far away at all.
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Posted: 11 Oct 2012 at 7:48pm |
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Nice pics Jason ....
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 12:08am |
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now Jason...that's just cheatin...usin that auger in the behlin!! and yo is right...you is ugly!!! but so am i! lol
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 12:13am |
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Love the pic of the corn ridin up the elevator! Brings back memories...
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 8:15am |
Shameless  I still got to go in there and it don't get the edges lol
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 5:10pm |
hey do you recycle them corn cobs? or are times not that hard!! 
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dpower
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Posted: 13 Oct 2012 at 1:00pm |
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Lol nope but a company does come out of Iowa and buys them from us for 5 cents a bushel.
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Posted: 13 Oct 2012 at 1:01pm |
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And for all you rifle reloaders out there crushed corn cob works great for brass cleaner.
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