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Post by MikeH on Jul 25, 2011 2:52:47 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Jul 25, 2011 12:35:04 GMT -5
Sweet! Just in time to try out on my Einkorn, which is starting to dry in the patch; next year a field!
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Post by steev on Oct 15, 2011 1:16:12 GMT -5
I tried the drill-bucket, using a lighter drill and lighter chain. It beat the Einkorn heads apart well, but didn't knock the seeds out of the glumes. I assume this is just the Einkorn living up to its reputation for threshing difficulty. Good enough for re-planting, but not for eating.
It looks like this method will be just the ticket for less stubborn grains.
If I ever get rice, I doubt this will work on rice.
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 3, 2011 17:06:37 GMT -5
Winnower Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 3, 2011 17:07:27 GMT -5
Pedal thresher Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 3, 2011 17:16:40 GMT -5
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Post by MikeH on Dec 11, 2011 6:09:19 GMT -5
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Post by oxbowfarm on Mar 30, 2012 4:14:26 GMT -5
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Post by MikeH on May 26, 2012 5:09:15 GMT -5
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Post by 12540dumont on May 26, 2012 22:26:22 GMT -5
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Post by MikeH on May 27, 2012 3:09:58 GMT -5
How is it supposed to work? I can figure out where the input and outputs are. but it's a bit difficult to figure out what's going on inside from the pieces.
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Post by raymondo on May 28, 2012 0:26:01 GMT -5
I can sort of see how it might winnow but how it threshes escapes me! Mind you, I'm technically challenged!
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Post by 12540dumont on May 28, 2012 18:39:01 GMT -5
Men, I haven't read the instructions because it is not assembled. So, I'm not sure how it works.
I did however speak to a bean expert in Minnesota who with a little fiddling with the ratio of the belt (and adding a little extra metal shield to the output used it all last season to thresh dry beans.
Paula's farm is Encore Farm and she grows dry beans for restaurants in Minnesota. Now I'm hoping to do both grain and beans with it. Last year I hand shelled some hundred pounds of beans and I really really don't want to do that again. Especially lentils and vignas. No No No!
Paula's Farm was featured in "Minnesota Cooks" Food from the Farm 2012 Calendar.
She spent an hour on the phone with me and assured me that this little machine works great. I plant to mount mine to a table. Paula did say it's a messy process, so it's not something you want to set up in the living room....ah shucks.
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Post by MikeH on Nov 19, 2012 12:52:12 GMT -5
I shoulda paid more attention in shop class.
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Post by steev on Nov 19, 2012 22:46:52 GMT -5
I paid attention in shop class, but it was wood shop, mechanical drawing (can we say obsolete?). and print shop (which I loved, but, again, so obsolete). Were I rich, I'd enjoy a letterpress print shop, just because the equipment and proceedure are so concrete and "present". I respect his apparatus, and admire it, because it is also in that mode of functional practicality. I can see how it works, and that is a comfort to me, in a world that is ever more opaque and technologically abstruse. I feel a rant coming on...
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