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Dehuller/Flour mill

Complete step by step plans for building a bicycle powered dehuller that is also convertible to a bicycle powered flour mill.

Complete plans for building a bicycle powered fanning mill. The fanning mill sorts, cleans, and grades seeds with two shaking screens and a winnowing tower. It is adjustable for all sorts of crops and operations. It can clean up to ten pounds per minute.

Bicycle Powered Thresher

Complete instructions for making a bicycle powered thresher. Thresher works on various crops including dry beans, wheat, rice, rye, einkorn, and lupine. Threshes about one pound per minute. This is the first of three tools for small scale grain processing designed to allow small farms to dabble in grain. The other two tools are the bicycle powered fanning mill and the bicycle powered de-huller/flour mill.

bicycle powered thresher,fan mill, and dehuller

Links below to the complete plans for bike powered tools for small scale grain processing; a thresher, a fan mill/winnower, and a dehuller/flour mill. The plans guide a farmer or a fabricator through step-by-step instructions using wood, metal, and scavenged bicycle parts. The cost of materials is $200 per machine and the machines process about 1# per minute for each process. In a well equipped garage/shop the machines can be built in 20-40 hours each.

TricTrac- Tricycle Tractor

The TricTrac is a pedal-powered tractor made from a modified bicycle which can be adapted for various low-power farming operations.

Pedal Power Hydraulic Log Splitter

Uses pedal power and a hydraulic power unit to split fire wood.

Biketractor

The biketractor: ergonomic weed management, planting, harvesting and mechanical hoeing, row marking,...

"Folding Farm" Bike driven mobile produce trailer and display module

"Folding Farm" is a bike towable and deployable produce delivery trailer. It was developed by the Sustainable Student Farm (SSF) and the Small Studio at the University of Illinois Urbana-Illinois. It has a tounge weight capacity of 500 lbs, which means a total towable payload of 300 lbs. It is used by the SSF to haul produce to a farm stand on the quad, an approximately 6 mile round trip. It folds down in transport, and then is deployable to look like the picture provided.

Low cost pedalpower rootwasher

Low cost root washer that can be pedal powered. It should be easily constructed on-farm.This is suitable for carrots, potatoes, etc. Can handle how many pounds/bushles per hour? This rootwasher was demonstrated at red planet vegetables 3/10/2012.