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bicycle powered thresher,fan mill, and dehuller

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Submitted by luseedhead on Wed, 01/28/2015 - 8:59am
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Primary problem statement:
I am a These low cost grain processing tools give small farms the opportunity to dabble in grain and dry beans and I want a tool to make the cleaning of grain and dry beans possible on a small scale because my customers want pancakes and tacos .
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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.
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The complete plans to build these tools are now on Farmhack! Here are the links:

youtube video playlist

And here are the links to the webpages and the PDFs of the plans

The introduction

The Thresher: tool page and PDF

The Fanning Mill: tool page and PDF

The dehuller/flour Mill: tool page and PDF

To link to the full project description and pictures of the first prototypes, go to the SARE project page. This project was supported by the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program. SARE is a program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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