Bumping up this thread instead of starting a new one - partly so that everyone knows it is not necessary to repeat the information already posted, but I will repeat my situation. Here in Portugal there is absolutely no market whatsoever in used equipment. Buying from another country is not possible, partly due to transport costs, partly import problems, and not least because this is a peasant economy and I am posting on behalf of neighbours as well as myself. Photos and drawings are all very well, but dimensions are needed to be able to make anything that stands a chance of working, especially when I have never seen a corn sheller.
Just about everybody grows a patch of corn, anything from a quarter acre up to maybe two acres. It is pulled and shelled by hand. That is a lot of work for old people. I am past retirement age, and just about the youngest around these parts. I felt that if I could make a sheller, preferably hand cranked or motor driven rather than pto, then I could save my neighbours a lot of work. Hand feeding the sheller is no problem.
Can anybody give me good enough leads to at least attempt to make one?
