corn sheller rebuild

[DavidBarkey]

New Idea 329 Super Sheller with a 325 2 row corn picker . Sheller needs a shaft and pulley repair due to failling bearings over loading main drive jack shaft

This thing has done a lot of work .

time to take off the auger

this is the failed pulley and shaft

[DavidBarkey]

one rusty bolt at a time , one panel at a time coming off to get to the shafts and bearings .

top end of auger shaft has seen some abuse

[JSinMO]

Wow overall it looks like it’s in pretty good shape. I’m betting it got parked in a shed when not in use. After 60 years I suppose it deserves some new bearings! Can you imagine how many bushels of corn have been run through it over the years?!

[DavidBarkey]

After talking to Chris , I understand how and when these are used . He , like many of the farmers up here back in the day used these but twice a year . Once in the fall to pull enough for the winter , leaving half the crop standing in the field . Then again in the spring as soon as things were dry enough. Storage only needed to be half as big that way . So like many other pieces of equipment used on a farm , it sits about 360 days a year . I guess the number of hours being lower than what a non farmer would expect and the fact that the RPM of most of the bearings is low is why it made it this far , some 60 odd years .

[DavidBarkey]

What my shop looks like right now .

18 bearings done now . 2 idler pulleys taken apart (riveted) and new bearing put in and bolted back together . Today we are going down to the Outlaws parents and change over the mower deck to the snowblower . On route a stop at metal suppliers and the welding suppliers to stock up on supplies .

[Harry]

What my shop looks like right now . 20241111_084220.jpg
18 bearings done now . 2 idler pulleys taken apart (riveted) and new bearing put in and bolted back together . Today we are going down to the Outlaws parents and change over the mower deck to the snowblower . On route a stop at metal suppliers and the welding suppliers to stock up on supplies .

David, sounds like a man on a mission. Harry