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The Thresher Plans PDF you uploaded are invaluable! So generous of you to share this freely to anyone interested in replicating your thresher. The winnower seems pretty straight forward (though will clearly take quite a bit of trial and error to tweak and get right), while the dehuller/grain mill seems quite a bit more complicated (for my current experience and skill set anyway). I will have to learn how to tack weld at the very least, and various other skills and distinctions will make a pretty steep learning curve for me to make them just based off your videos on the two different machines, particularly without any diagrams with measurements, etc. If they exist, is there any possibility that you might upload PDF plans either or both those two machines as well? Thank you so much for making such detailed videos and sharing the two PDFs. 🙏

Great work men

Excellent

I absolutely love this. I know it is a DIY but are these for sale?

Incredible movie, thanks for moving me, thanks for the inspiration and congratulations. Democracy will bloom, I can smell it coming around me in France. It almost did during the Yellow Vests movement in 2018/19 who pushed the rights of initiatives and referendums as their main demand, before they got crushed by Emmanuel Macron’s government like I had never seen a movement being crushed before. But the ideas have not disappeared and have only silently grown solid during these years of Covid. Dignity’s around the corner.

As small scale seeds producers, your thresher made us save a lot of time and permitted us to scale up quite a bit our production. We built it last autumn and we have been using it to thresh beans, peas, soybeans, favabeans, lettuces, brassicas and so many different flowers. Everything that needs to be threshed goes in there. It doesn't work well with radish seeds and snap peas/beans, but it is still a lot better with it than without. Basically, we use the metal chain flails with everything except legumes, for which we made rubber mat flails to avoid breakerage. It worked really great. It will be very nice to have it at the beginning of the threshing season this year. Thanks a lot for making the plans available online!

You can buy all kinds of sets of sealed bearings from even our local home and building supply. I wonder why most things have crappy sleave bearings at most when it is so cheap to buy really decent bearings. Planned obsolescense, I guess.

Add a set of discs at the rear to help stabilize forward motion to maintain straight path along furrow. That will stop the swerving.

Great presentation.

Love the idea of the bike powered equipment

What type of welding do you do? MIG/TIG? Also, lathe or mill boring?

There are a LOT of different sort of surfaces you could experiment with - such as more "natural" ones (rather than rubber or sandpaper). How would force substitute or affect the action of various surfaces? For instance, turning the axis of rotation in the mill itself to the vertical would allow you to use weights instead of screws to put a *constant* force on the rotating plates. Too much force would smash the grain. The rubbing would "bring out" the grain of the wood and produce a rougher surface, and various orientations and types of grain (different woods) would affect the amount of shear on the kernels. But on second thought, the rubber may be necessary to prevent sharp stress concentrations between two hard (say, wood) surfaces from shattering some of the kernels.

Get a H F mixer for 150 bucks and an old blower. Toss grain in with blocks of wood. Walk away and come back to clean seed. Works for almost everything. Adjust blocks and blower as need for type of seed. Very easy no waste. But it works best for wheat and oats and that type if you cut the heads from the straw. And it is set up to dump into 5 gal buckets. www.harborfreight.com/1-1-4-quarter-cubic-ft-compact-cement-mixer-91907.html

Изумительная вещь!

This looks like a great way for a farm to experiment with dry beans without sinking a bunch of capital into it. Thanks for putting it out where others can find it.

I wonder how much of the abrasive from the sand paper that's not lasting ends up n your final flour

Thanks for the info

You're my new hero 👍

do you think this work for high revolution of the shaft (connected to an electric motor)?

Доброго дня, скільки коштує такий станок чи можна замовити у вас.

I built your thresher! It's here: czcams.com/video/DYG6QuU8ZCg/video.html Thanks for plans. This year I got 77 lbs of beans from from 1/20th of an acre.

you wont need that grease fitting those bearings will go 60,000 miles with no care on a bike.

fckn genius.

Looks great. Should replace some of the wood with plexiglass or glass so you can watch what you are doing.

"...and there's one other feature, if you come in here. I want to show you two other things about it." I love your inventions and how you describe them.

why don't you just take a lawn mower chassis, put a header and grain thresher on it and a small engine and go with that. lol

does it work with sunflower seeds

Has anyone built a bicycle powered thresher like this anywhere in or near North Carolina? I'd love to get in touch with anyone that has.

Good to see ol' friends pushing the ol' weasel around. GET THOSE PLANS POSTED!

Hah, that's sweet.

is it available for india ??

Have you tried using a high durometer gum or other food grade rubber in place of sand paper?

will that machine be suitable for the oat grains?

This is just what I've been looking for! I just harvested my first wheat crop (a tiny plot 20' x 30') and didn't want to do the 'drill with a bucket" method. Looking forward to building this. Thank you!

Yeoman work. ty

Amazing, thanks for sharing!

Beautiful design. Thanks for the detailed run through and clear explanations.

Hi Lu and friends... how much does that thing weigh? I can't wait to push one of these around!

Have you seen this oat thresher? czcams.com/video/ufT-1fPvQhY/video.html I imagine it may be more effective when powered by a bike style drive system rather than this pump pedal system. It seems to use a series of ribs to beat against the oats rather than flails.

Would it be useful to put the flails on joints that constrain their swinging to a single plane so "stator" rods can be mounted onto the walls of the chamber between the flails? This might make this tool more efficient or more effective for some threshing operations. I imagine the flails would just throw the materials around once everything picks up speed rather than beat them against something if there are no stator rods. But with with short stator rods, a long item such as a head of grain could get broken up by colliding with a stator rod. You wouldn't even need that many stator rods; a single row of stubby stator rods may do the trick.

Thanks, Nicolas! Working on the issue in New York with lowercase d.

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