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Post by DarJones on Dec 23, 2011 20:24:54 GMT -5
I found a used Taylor 675 pea sheller on Craigslist and bought it for $250. Today I got out some peas that I had pulled up vine and all and stored in the greenhouse. When I ran them through the sheller, I shelled out a gallon of dry peas in about 10 minutes. You can't believe how much of a time saver this machine will be next year.
For side info, there are three types of machines available:
Taylor 675 - Cost about $470 new, is a small industrial sheller.
Mr. Pea electric- Cost about $270 new, is a good home machine
Mechanical pea shellers - Cost about $10 to $80, useful if you only have a few peas or beans to shell.
DarJones
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 24, 2011 12:50:59 GMT -5
Great info! When I was very young we used to use the washing machine as a pea sheller. It had a couple of rollers on the top of it for wringing the water out of the clothes. We fed the peas into that by hand. I only remember using it on green peas. We didn't save dry peas. www.maytagclub.com/timeline/Model%20E2LP.jpg |
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 24, 2011 17:58:43 GMT -5
Dar, would it do beans? Dry beans and peas? Or just greenie?
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Post by robertb on Dec 25, 2011 10:02:54 GMT -5
Did it extract the peas without squashing them, Joseph? I know the rollers you mean - we had a freestanding one (known as a mangle) when I was a kid, and I've seen them on washing machines as well. I well remember turning the handle on a mangle and squeezing the clothes through, but it's a bit violent.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 25, 2011 12:15:10 GMT -5
Did it extract the peas without squashing them, Joseph? I know the rollers you mean - we had a freestanding one (known as a mangle) when I was a kid, and I've seen them on washing machines as well. I well remember turning the handle on a mangle and squeezing the clothes through, but it's a bit violent. I think they came out fine... But that was 40 years ago, before I was paying much attention to food quality. It was a dangerous apparatus, so I'm thinking that I would have been banned from feeding it due to my young age. Also, at the time, my village was growing peas for the fresh pea market, so the varieties grown by my family are likely to have been commercial varieties chosen for their ability to survive the processing equipment. |
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Post by DarJones on Dec 26, 2011 2:21:50 GMT -5
Holly, It will shell beans, peas, and cowpeas whether at the shelly or dry stage of maturity. It is a nice machine all things considered. You can find them new at www.peasheller.com/The advantage of the Taylor machine is that it is intended for light industrial use. You can run hundreds of bushels of beans through it as long as basic maintenance is performed. Here is a current auction on Ebay for a Taylor. www.ebay.com/itm/230629032321DarJones |
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 26, 2011 14:44:09 GMT -5
Dar, You are terrific  |
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