Mick Gallagher feeds copious amounts of corn cobs into the old and aptly named 'hit or miss' petrol-engine-powered corn-sheller for the benefit of on-lookers at the Maffra show in Gippsland, Victoria.

Bruce D. Bomberger, curator at Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, say that these two tools are corn shellers. "Shelling" is the process of removing the hard, dried kernels of field corn from their ...