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frogpatch

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So What is This Iron Thing?
« on: June 24, 2013, 08:03:15 am »
It has a crank and the horizontal plate with the teeth turns. This should be easy. I have no idea however. They guy has two of the and there were a lot of farms in the area at one time. It was wedged between two shelves and I was afraid I would cause a catastrophe if I tried to move it. I would guess all the open work was to help to clean it. The glass jar is not part of it.
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2013, 08:33:30 am »
I know, I know...it's a "Corn Sheller". Put in one ear at a time and end up with a empty cob. Yours even has the little attachment on the outside so you can get those last few kernels off the small end of the ear.

Here's a high priced example:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Primitive-Antique-Corn-Sheller-Husker-Cast-Iron-Really-Nice-/230763047148#ht_350wt_674
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2013, 08:44:14 am »
Wow. You really nailed that one. The only difference is the example you showed had the red paint. The tag on the one in the picture was for 85.00. I could have gotten it for a lot less but my wife was rrrrrr..rr..right. I don't need it.
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2013, 09:11:10 am »
Darn Rauville,, beat me to it !!  I can use one of those now !!  Had enough corn to supply two more families for the winter get tough in the field !!
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2013, 09:12:01 am »
Looks like "farm sculpture." I think your wife was wrong about the rocker but right about this.
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2013, 10:08:03 am »
Yep, nailed it!

So sorry to hear about the corn Mart.  You did good though!!
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2013, 11:05:01 am »
Just had an unusually good year for corn !!  Everything fell right !! Gave corn to half the community,, other half was too lazy to come pick it !!
Same with green beans !!
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2013, 12:30:02 pm »
So what's the weather been like for the corn to be unusually good ?
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2013, 12:37:44 pm »
Ohhhhh  mart if I lived near you I would be pickin till the cows came home!!  ;)  Love my veggies and can never get enough  but there is nothing like home grown!!
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2013, 12:55:34 pm »
Quote from: ghopper1924 on June 24, 2013, 09:12:01 am
Looks like "farm sculpture." I think your wife was wrong about the rocker but right about this.
she was right about both of them.....bosses are always right...even when you may think they are wrong....for as Wendy,says..happy wife.=.happy life....
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2013, 01:01:48 pm »
Nonsense. A spoiled wife is a spoiled life!
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2013, 01:13:38 pm »
Really ghopper my husband spoils me like crazy & he gets waited on hand and foot plus gets whatever he wants whenever he wants!!  ;) ;) ;)
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #12 on: June 24, 2013, 01:29:00 pm »
you,re out on a limb here ghopper...nobody said anything about spoiling....but since you have brought it up,...i,d give Avril the Moon if i could...and she,d do the same for me......but we don,t have a spoiled life.....we enjoy..every waking moment we have together....mind you its a different story when i,m sleeping....She want to throttle me... ;D....she just can,t stand my 76 decibels...belting out continuously....
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #13 on: June 24, 2013, 01:53:00 pm »
I like Wendy' response. 

You however.......  ;D
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Re: So What is This Iron Thing?
« Reply #14 on: June 24, 2013, 01:55:16 pm »
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The only difference is the example you showed had the red paint.


HA, a stiff wire brush and a $2 can of red spray paint and  ;D ;D ;D ;D
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