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Post by 12540dumont on Oct 19, 2011 11:41:13 GMT -5
Walk, I saw the pdf photos.
Sometimes Joseph takes measurements and gives a little more guidance. This is an old farm. The "junk" pile is large. It helps if I know I'm looking for two 2x6x3 and two 2x6x4, what gauge wire, how many bolts...how many washers.
Also, St. Joe also makes improvements to things that I might not think of. Last night I got out a hotel pan and started rummaging.
This is such a cool thresher idea. I've already shelled out all the beans, but there's still milo!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 19, 2011 22:21:04 GMT -5
You would ask on the eve of a market day.... But it's alright, I wanted to take beans to market anyway, and I hadn't thrashed them yet. I had a screen that I use for washing rocks. It's made out of 2X4 board and 1X4 board. The screen is 1/2" hardware cloth with a rubber coating on it. And in honor of Larisa's post I used a shoe as the crusher. A washtub was an OK size for catching the thrashed beans.  The end of the screen towards the front of the shoe is open, so that I can tip the screen and dump what's on it out without turning it all the way upside down. That end has the 1X4 on it attached to the bottom of the 2X4. I just nailed the screen onto the bottom of the 2X4.  Before I use this for much thrashing, I'd want to add a 1X2 over top of where it had been nailed to provide better support to the screen. It took a fair amount of pressure to crush the beans. Some bean pods shriveled up and fit tight like a glove on the bean. These just broke up and went right through. If I set the screen on a table before rubbing the crusher over them then those threshed just fine. I then used a broom to sweep them into the washtub. Setting the screen on a table also worked great with a black wheat that I had previously been unable to thrash. I couldn't open the seed pod in a mortar and pestle. I couldn't rub it by hand. The wheat berries fell to the table after thrashing which protected them from the crusher. I have a similar screen with a smaller mesh in a different shed that I'll try on the wheat later. When I originally built these, I made them so that they nest. That might be a good trait to have for thrashing.  And of course, no post about thrashing would be complete without a photo of the winnowing process:  By the way, I'm quite uncoordinated about winnowing and taking photos at the same time. p.s. I am a monk and lived for years in a monastery, but i'm not typically called a saint. |
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Post by steev on Oct 20, 2011 0:52:32 GMT -5
What size shoe do you recommend?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 20, 2011 1:32:19 GMT -5
Whenever I need a shoe, I go for men's size 12W. That just seems to be the most useful size for all kinds of projects around the farm. For thrashing I'm partial to rubber souls and ribbed tread.
Although women's size 10 and 1/2 comes in quite handy. Wish that size was better at squashing spiders. It's got like a million to one weight ratio over the spider. I don't know that the 1,000,200 weight ratio of the size 12W really adds all that much efficiency, but it must cause we always use the 12W for squashing spiders. (And for digging holes, and for running mice out to the trash can, and for climbing ladders.)
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Post by steev on Oct 20, 2011 10:41:37 GMT -5
For squashing noxious insects ( I mostly don't do spiders ), I think a spike heel is the tool of choice; it's a zen archery sort of thing. The critter I nail was meant to be nailed and I but the Hammer of the Great Recycler.
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Post by 12540dumont on Oct 20, 2011 20:50:06 GMT -5
Steev, I believe this whole time your trouble with women has been the attraction to spiky heels.
No good has ever come from spiky heels...
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Post by Walk on Oct 21, 2011 8:32:28 GMT -5
Thanks Joseph for the photos of your setup. This helps make the concept clearer. Glad it's working for you. As to shoe size, my feet are only a men's 8W, so maybe that's why I needed to make the rubber coated paddle. First time in my life that the size of my feet could be considered to be on the small side  |
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Post by steev on Oct 21, 2011 10:53:46 GMT -5
Thinking back, and back, I don't remember any women who wore spiky heels. That could be the problem; that I don't remember them. What trouble with women?
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Post by spacecase0 on Oct 21, 2011 12:05:55 GMT -5
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Post by Walk on Oct 22, 2011 9:13:31 GMT -5
There are no new ideas! However, my neoclassical design makes use of contemporary, ultra modern industrial cast-offs, introducing a bit of whimsy to its functionality while preserving its commanding presence in your decor. All of this is available for much less than $650.  |
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Post by steev on Oct 23, 2011 21:33:25 GMT -5
Trust a woman to bring esthetics to the job of threshing crops! What WOULD we men do without women? Rub stuff through a screen with an old shoe, that's what. Adds that piquant touch of 'je ne sais quoi' to that pot of frijoles con puerco.
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Post by 12540dumont on Oct 23, 2011 22:09:00 GMT -5
And note Steve, she's from Minnesota, where all the women are good looking (and smart).  |
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Post by steev on Oct 24, 2011 0:26:48 GMT -5
Um, really? All of them? MinneSOta, you say?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 14, 2011 1:43:03 GMT -5
I've been threshing this week. These are working really nicely. They were sold as gold sieves. They nest inside each other, and fit inside a 5 gallon bucket. They are very strong. They are made of woven hardware cloth. There is one with 1/8" holes just the right size to let onion seed through and one with 1/4" holes that worked great with wheat. A coarser mesh would be nice for beans/peas.  |
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Post by steev on Dec 14, 2011 11:29:14 GMT -5
How optimistic to make a gold sieve that fits a 5-gallon bucket!
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