Harvesting and processing a small Wheat plot by hand
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2020
- I see what it is like to harvest and process spring wheat the old way, by using sickle and flail and winnowing by hand. It is just a small plot but the process is the same. I make a flail just for the job!
I wouldn't bother turning that into flour. I would just cook them the way they are and make a wheatberry salad or wheat berry breakfast like oatmeal.
Honestly, threshing the wheat by foot might have been less labor intensive than the flail.
Fascinating, today in the UK I saw a huge combine and truck harvesting the mechanised way. I bet most people have no idea how to harvest wheat ! With this food crisis this could become a useful skill.
I wonder how many mice are dining under the deck😳
Landed on this, and finally understand sooo many biblical statements! Thank youuuuuuuu!!!
Are you going to have Wheat growing up through your porch next year ?
farmer thing🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for this! The visual was EVERYTHING!
I've struggled with winnowing.
I saw from ukraine i kind of wheat that harvest not seed a kibd of chalk flour inherit beneath the grass its true or not?!
It takes roughly 1/3 of an acre to produce enough wheat for a small family. Not hard to do by hand at all, you will get better with time. There are grain separators that you can make very easily that separate the berries with a fairly high efficiency and all you have to do is drop it into a hopper and keep the machine fed until it’s all done. You can honestly make one with cardboard and computer fans for free if you have them laying around. It can process all the wheat for your entire family for a year in an hour. Get a large tarp, fold your wheat into it, beat it thoroughly (probably will take an hour) just like you did. Remove the stems and larger stuff, then dump the rest into your simple homemade chaff separator. The harvest takes the longest, but it’s honestly not that bad to just go out into the field with a satchel and scissors and just keep emptying the satchel into a wagon or gator until the field is empty. If all you bring back are wheat heads, the process of getting the berries out goes a lot faster. Set aside your seed stock, the rest is yours.
Wow.
Inspiring video. Thank you
Biblical meanings are so awesome. Thanks for sharing
That was a neat experiment. I’d probably get a cement mixing tray and dump the bowl into that so you are less likely to loose the seeds. But now I want to try doing this. I remember when I lived in TN I used to see wheat growing wild. I wish it grew wild in SC.
So how did your wheat turn out this year? I planted last October and harvested a few weeks ago. I planted about two pounds of seed on 577 square feet and harvested a bit less than 55 pounds of wheat (roughly 69 bu/ac yield--not bad for a home garden, from what I can tell). Just a few thoughts... a) If you get a solid stand, wheat does a wonderful job of suppressing weeds. b) That flail really looks like a terrible way to thresh. I mostly did mine just by crushing the heads by hand, and rubbing them over a piece of hardware cloth. One of the better methods I have seen involves putting the wheat in a container and breaking it up with a string trimmer. c) Winnowing is definitely easier if you catch the grain in a larger container so you don't need to be so careful with dropping it!
You might consider moving the on/off switch on your bench grinder; reaching over a power tool as you did at
New subscriber. Just venturing on our own wheat adventure this year for the first time.😂. We’ll be recording for our channel, too. Great job.
that buff wheel is still good just flip it around so it spins the cut closed like a flap disc
Nicee,