new video of home scale threshing inventions

Paul Wheaton · #1 09/03/10, 09:24 PM

Two threshing inventions plus a demo of winnowing with a fan

http://www.youtube.com/paulwheaton12#p/u/0/oDr8VF2QIPM

myheaven · #2 09/03/10, 10:16 PM

I must say that is pretty dang cool. Getting my mind going.

Rick · #3 09/03/10, 10:21 PM

Very nice Paul.

The things we are capable of, and don't even know!

**clovis** · #4 09/03/10, 11:48 PM

Paul, I'm on dial up, and can't find it on my iPhone.

What can I search under?

**clovis** · #5 09/04/10, 12:11 AM

Paul,

I found it. Pretty cool!

I like what the guy did with the old chipper. It seems like a person could fit a screen below the chipper, allowing it to catch most of the chaff, but allowing the seed to fall thru to a pan placed beneath the screen.

I wonder if you could find a wheat screen, or any other sized screen from an antique Allis Chalmers All Crop.

The AC All Crop leads me to my next point: If you had enough wheat to harvest, or anything down to the finest of all seeds, the Allis All Crop is an amazing machine. As long as you can find an All Crop with good or repairable drapers, the machines are super cheap, generally in the $200 range or less, and easy to get running. Just a few weeks ago, I saw a guy's thread about harvesting clover seed, here in Indiana, and he used an All Crop.

Callieslamb · #6 09/04/10, 07:56 AM

I don't EVEN want DH to see that! Great Video!

Paul Wheaton · #7 09/04/10, 08:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clovis

Paul, I'm on dial up, and can't find it on my iPhone.

What can I search under?

"grain thresher designs"

or go to youtube.com/paulwheaton12

Windy in Kansas · #8 09/04/10, 08:23 AM

I like the low tech flail machine. Expect a hedge trimmer would make quick work of harvesting just the heads of the crop---unless you could find an old header barge to resurrect. "On the Dry Divide" by Ralph Moody tells all about harvesting with them.

The wheat shown and threshed is much much different than the hard red winter wheat grown in Kansas. I suspect that ours is much easier to thresh.

geo in mi · #9 09/04/10, 08:47 AM

I would appreciate seeing safety shoes--at least leather shoes---while using the flail on a drill......

geo

myheaven · #10 09/04/10, 12:50 PM

a 55 gallon barrel with a weed trimmer. Have a screen on the bottom for the seed to go threw with a door to open and remove the seed. Hows that plan sound?

Rick · #11 09/04/10, 03:10 PM

I don't think the string would do the job the chains did

myheaven · #12 09/04/10, 08:28 PM

we use metal wire on our weed wacker. But I see your point. Wouldnt take much to rig up a metal pole for our big drill. I have a copmost tumbler I never use that has a siftig grate May be able to do something with that.