03/02/11, 12:42 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: MN
Posts: 7,610
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Seed cleaner.
Commonly called 'fanning mill'.
Hero and Clipper were 2 common brands around here.
They were built with a hand crank, you dumped oats, wheat, barley, flax, etc. in the top, your kids took turn running the crank at a steady speed, and clean grain came out the bottom ready to put in the drill (small grain planter) to seed a field.
There are an assortment of top and bottom screens the grain goes over. There is an adjustable fan the seed will fall past.
The top screen lets the seed and small stuff fall through, big stuff falls off the back over the screen.
The fan blows the real light fluffy stuff away.
The bottom screen keeps the seed on top, and lets tiny pieces of heavy stuff fall through to the ground.
Newer Clippers are motorized, and nearly every old one has had the crank thrown away & replaced with 2 Vee belts and a 1/4 or 1/2hp motor.
Works for soybeans too if you get the right screens - more of a sheet of tin with round holes in it.
Clean seed had no weeds, doesn't plug the drill, etc.
Doesn't work so much for corn, as corn needs a seed sizer to match up different sized kernals to work right.
--->Paul
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