This Lehman’s corn sheller is the off-grid, no-electricity answer to processing ear corn — popcorn, seed corn, feed corn, and dried walnut hulls — at homestead scale. The clamp-on cast iron body attaches to the side of any sturdy box (you supply), feeds an ear of corn through the rotating head, and shells the kernels off the cob at a rate of 10 to 15 bushels per hour with steady cranking. The 10-inch flywheel pulley stores momentum and reduces the effort needed to turn the handle through the toughest ears.
Adjustable spring tension lets the sheller handle ear sizes from small popcorn ears through full feed corn without re-tooling, and a separate setting handles husk walnuts past their first dry-down. Once you’ve shelled an ear, it’s a simple matter to bucket the kernels for storage, animal feed, popping, or grinding into cornmeal. The mechanical design is the same one used in early-20th-century farm shellers — fully understood, fully repairable, and built from heavy cast iron that will outlast the homestead.
For households raising backyard chickens or hogs on home-grown feed corn, kitchen gardens with sweet corn or popcorn, and prepper or off-grid operations where ‘plug it in’ isn’t an option, this sheller is the right purchase. 11-1/5 inches tall in the working position. Lehman’s catalog selection for serious home processors.
