I see one around occasionally but I think they are disappearing fast. Most people who want to own a sheller now don't want the hassle of maintaining a truck as well as the sheller - it's just easier to get a PTO operated model and run it with a tractor. Also, most truck-mounted shellers had a hard life of custom work and are generally more worn out than most PTO shellers which were more likely to have been owned by an individual farmer. I have even seen shellers that were obviously a truck-powered sheller and after the truck itself went to pot someone cut off the cab, removed the engine and front axle and then shoved the front of the truck frame together to make it into a hitch so it could be pulled with a tractor. Then they cobbled up some type of drive on the front of it so it could be powered by the tractor PTO.

 

Dig thru past posts on here - there are some nice truck-mounted shellers still out there being used (mostly at corn picking shows and such). I think they are neat also!

Also check out YouTube - there is a video on there of a Cook sheller mounted on a Dodge truck being used to shell corn at an event somewhere. That is one corn-eating machine!

Did you see this post of mine from a couple years ago?

cornpickers.activeboard.com/t51935949/more-sheller-photos/

Andy

These are neat photos! Thanks for posting them. Thanks also, Andy, for the link to your earlier post. I only joined this forum last summer, and so had not seen that.