Old Time Corn Sheller Revived - Popcorn

International corn sheller from 1950's era, put back to work shelling popcorn. Modernized with an electric motor, this is a massive upgrade from hand-shelling last year! Shelled 1200 lbs of popcorn with it in an afternoon.

[@SinisterMD]

I've always been fascinated with the simplicity of this design but the impressive effectiveness at the same time. OSHA workers have nightmares about machines like this.

[@fuzzyprosl]

It was cool to see the time laps footage of the catchers filling up at roughly the same rate.

[@jackgraham3393]

When we were younger, we had a good business selling popcorn on the cob. The idea was to pop it right off the cob.
If you put the cob in a brown paper bag and place the bag in a microwave for about three minutes it will pop all the corn off the cob. The real sticker is having the correct moisture content. Thirteen percent seemed to be the magic number. Our little "Mom and Pop" operation was sell 900 to a 1000 ears a year. The ears were wrapped and sealed. With todays modern vacuum sealer this would be much easier.
We picked with a regular single row corn picker. Never noticed much damage to the ears.

[@TheCajunHomestead]

Nice job. I actually have two of those, in different stages of disrepair. I have four total, and one of those is a two hole feed tube. I started collecting about 30 years ago. I’ve always wanted to do a pop, corn side business. We can actually have two crops a year one in spring time, and one in the fall in southwest Louisiana. I am still looking for a corn picker, though. Nice video..

[@raweyhrichimagery2609]

Nice setup. You should have called me I would have come shelled all your popcorn for you. I love running the sheller. Do you see much/any kernel damage with the metal teeth? I'm assuming not as popcorn is really hard.

[@ptnelsonster]

I shell at 13.5% moisture so grain is hard and pretty durable. But I don’t restrict the throat as much as I could which let’s some grain through on the cob but prevents damage.

[@jeffpurdy2347]

Do you sell the popcorn?

[@ptnelsonster]

Selling. Yes.

[@user-pi8us8dp3b]

I am watching this video to see the shell that corn comes in. All my corn comes on cobbs.

[@user-pi8us8dp3b]

OK OK so you are grammatically correct. I think my question still stands. 🙂