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Post by Walk on Dec 15, 2011 10:32:51 GMT -5
Great find! How much "gold" do you need to buy a set?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 16, 2011 18:07:53 GMT -5
I acquired these so long ago that even if my memory was accurate the dollar has depreciated so much that the figure wouldn't mean anything today. But I'd have been very unlikely to buy anything like that if the cost was over $20.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 30, 2012 14:40:09 GMT -5
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Post by davida on Jan 30, 2012 18:02:58 GMT -5
Looks great. Have you ordered it yet? Please keep us posted. |
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 30, 2012 18:21:10 GMT -5
I just spoke to Howe and he's only going to do a limited number of kits this year, no more complete systems. So, he's going to put me on the waiting list for a kit.
So it still looks like I'll have to find someone to put it together for me. Why does this have to be so hard?
Frustration is running rampant here. ARghhh!
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Post by johninfla on Feb 17, 2012 13:18:45 GMT -5
OK, dumb question....other than syrup, what do you use sorghum for?
John
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Post by cortona on Feb 17, 2012 15:35:50 GMT -5
feeding birds, and with the appropriate variety flour for uman consmption...ah pop-sorgum too
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Post by raymondo on Feb 17, 2012 15:36:54 GMT -5
Sorghum can be used like any other grain - as a grain, as a cover crop, as animal fodder etc. In some African countries, it's the principal grain.
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Post by spacecase0 on Feb 17, 2012 22:27:26 GMT -5
I like boiling sorghum seeds like most people cook rice
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Post by raymondo on Feb 18, 2012 5:03:17 GMT -5
Bought a roll of plastic with bumps on it, designed to put in drawers to stop things slipping. I put my barley heads on it, folded a piece over and rubbed. Barley seeds popped out clean as a whistle. Still had to winnow. It was this that prompted me to buy the plastic www.youtube.com/watch?v=pylmEzZ4goAI'll use it to make a paddle like the one shown. Should work a treat for smallish quantities. I wouldn't want to do a field this way though. |
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Post by floricole on Sept 13, 2012 19:02:15 GMT -5
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Post by catherinenm on Oct 4, 2012 15:27:05 GMT -5
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Post by oxbowfarm on Oct 4, 2012 20:41:29 GMT -5
Having grown a lot of "backyard" scale wheat, I have to say I'm not really impressed with this machine. Especially at that price point BEFORE shipping.
This machine is basically a direct copy of a pedal rice thresher and accomplishes the same thing. It knocks the heads off the straw. What it doesn't do is break up the spikelets to get the grain out of them. That's why you see the kid with the stick pounding all the unthreshed grain in a bucket. And for them to be getting the quantity of grain threshed that they actually are with this thing that wheat must be crazy bone dry. Those are actually not consistently achievable conditions at wheat harvest time, at least on the east coast.
Threshing machines are actually an extremely mature technology. I am frustrated to see these modern designs that are basically attempts to reinvent the threshing machine without using its most functional part which is the concave. A beater without a concave is like a bike with no pedals. It will get you someplace but you're not going to get home for supper.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Oct 11, 2012 21:04:23 GMT -5
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Post by bunkie on Jan 15, 2013 12:06:22 GMT -5
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