How well does a sheller do with shelling if their is snow on top of the corn? Would the snow break up enough before it got in the sheller so that it wouldn't fill up everything? I have corn in a pickett crib and might need to shell some corn for feed. It has a fair amount of snow on top already and we might be getting almost half a foot more within the next couple of days. Next week it sounds like it will warm up. Would it be better to wait for a warmer day or would everything work?
You probably want to shell it either when it's really cold or wait until all the snow has melted. If you do it when it's really cold the snow breaks up and is grainy like sand. Most of it will just fall out of the shaker sieve or get blown out by the fan.
Like Tom said , do it cold or dry. You want thinks cold enough that it blowes or sieves through without getting damp and sticking to metal and covering up the sieve so the corn can't fall through. If you had a leafblower or maybe the shuck blower of the sheller to blow as much snow as you could first. Do you hsve a model E sheller? good luck Don
Yes that is a model E Minnie Mo. I might give that thing with the shuck blower a try. I never thought about blowing the snow off. I thought I'd probably have to go and scoop it off. Thanks for the ideas.
