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| Ron, when I was in HS and for a year or two afterwards I work on a shelling crew. One crib we did held 100,000 bu, yes that's a 1 followed by five 0s, and was owned by an elevator. In one end they had built a cage that held a IH Cub with a front blade. A tunnel ran the entire length of the crib for the drags. WE would start shelling on the end with the Cub and after you got shelled past it you would get it out & use it to push the corn into the drags. Usually only took two men working in the crib itself. One running the Cub & another using a shovel to clean up. Probably the easiest shelling crib we did.
I have shelled in some pretty nasty places. Worse was probably a double crib that the guy ran hogs down the middle of. Hog dust penetraded all thru the corn & it was a yellow cloud the whole time. Another bad one was an old dairy barn that had stalls with cement walls & floors that the guy had filled with ear corn. Only way in was thru the a door for each stall. Rats would stand up on their back legs & snarl trying to get out, which was thru the door behind you.
WE used a JD sheller, don't remember the model #, powered by an IH 560.
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