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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: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpWnfLODTZ73Hdx_OTrrD3b5o0fAc24WY

And here are the links to the webpages and the PDFs of the plans The introduction: http://farmhack.org/sites/default/files/tools/files/introduction%20for%20grain%20bikes_0.pdf

The Thresher: http://farmhack.org/tools/bicycle-powered-thresher and the PDF: http://farmhack.org/sites/default/files/tools/files/THRESHER_FINAL_UPLOAD.pdf

The Fanning Mill: http://farmhack.org/tools/bicycle-powered-fanning-mill

and the PDF: http://farmhack.org/sites/default/files/tools/files/FANNING%20MILL%20FINAL_UPLOAD.pdf

The dehuller/flour Mill: http://farmhack.org/tools/dehullerflour-mill and the dehuller PDF: http://farmhack.org/sites/default/files/tools/files/MILL_FINAL%20UPLOAD.pdf

To link to the full project description and pictures of the first prototypes, go to : http://mysare.sare.org/sare_project/one16-277/?page=narrative This project 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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