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EQUIPMENT NEEDS RELATIVE TO YOUR SCALE OF SEED PRODUCTION
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HARVEST EQUIPMENT SMALL TO MEDIUM
• Hand Harvest
• Buckets, bins, blades,
bags, scissors, pruners, weed wacker, bill hook
• Machine Harvest
• Hand held seed stripper
• Modified weed wacker
• www.prairiehabitats.com
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HARVEST EQUIPMENT MEDIUM TO LARGE
• Pull-type sweep harvester
• www.prairie habitats.com
• www.seedburo.com
• Pull-type combine
• PTO driven
• Allis Chalmers
• $2500 -$8500
• Combine
• $250,000 & head
• Plot combine more $
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THRESHING EQUIPMENT SMALL SCALE
Threshing Flail Threshing Grain
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THRESHING EQUIPMENT SMALL SCALE DRY SEED
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THRESHING BOXES
Threshing box for stomping Threshing pea seed on a
threshing box
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CORN THRESHING EQUIPMENT
Seedburo Equipment Company
www.seedburo.com
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
www.southernexposure.com
Decker Corn Sheller $7 -$10
Corn/Walnut
sheller $289
Almaco Ear Corn
Sheller $24,000
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DRILL & BUCKET THRESHER PRAIRIE HERITAGE FARM
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Threshing peas in the field
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I-TECH MODIFIED CHIPPER SHREDDER GRAIN THRESHER – MEDIUM SCALE
• Creating a Grain
Thresher
• By Allen Dong and
Roger J. Edberg, I-Tech,
P.O. Box 413, Veneta,
Oregon 97487
This invention was
declared public
domain August 1994, a
gift to humanity.
$50 - $3000 to build
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MODIFIED HAMMERS
spacers
Flip
hammers
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MODIFY RPM BY SEED TYPE
• 250-400 rpm for
beans and large
seeds
• 400-800 rpm
coriander, radish,
sunflower
• 600-1400 rpm
wheat, oats, barley,
rice and small seeds
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TYPICAL THRESHING RATES
Pounds of seeds per
hour
• Amaranth 66
• Bok Choy 22 to 30
• Oats 94
• Pinto bean 117
• Soy bean 81 to 127
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THRESHING EQUIPMENT LARGE SCALE
Portable belt thresher new $10 -15,000
Photo credit: Micaela Colley, Organic Seed Alliance.
Photo credit: Micaela Colley, Organic Seed Alliance
All Crop stationary field thresher
Allis Chalmers
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WET SEED THRESHING\CLEANING SMALL TO MEDIUM SCALE
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WET SEED CLEANING TOMATO SEED
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FOOD PROCESSOR FOR SMALL TO MEDIUM WET SEED THRESHING
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MEDIUM TO LARGE SCALE WET SEED THRESHING
Millet wet vegetable seed separator, under $4000
AGE Manufacturing [email protected]
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WET SEED THRESHING LARGE SCALE
The ‘Liberty 5000’ from
High Mowing Seeds Tomato seed extractor in use at
Johnny’s Select Seeds
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TOMATO FLUME LARGE SCALE WET SEED CLEANING
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SEED CLEANING EQUIPMENT
Size Weight
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SEED CLEANING BY SIZE SMALL SCALE
Screens and hardware cloth Deep fryer baskets.
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SEED CLEANING SMALL – MEDIUM SCALE
Hoffman Manufacturing www.hoffmanmfg.com
Seedburo www.seedburo.com
$40-$48 US $8 - $15 US
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SCREEN THEORY
• Top screen removes
larger debris
• Bottom screen
retains seed and
allows fine debris to
fall through
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SCREEN SHAPES AND SIZES
http://www.atferrell.com/clipper/products/clipper-office-tester for common screen sizes for seed by type ( tomato, pepper, bean etc.)
The Seed Garden, The Art an Practice of Seed Saving
1/20 screen Round holes 1/20th of
an inch in diameter
11/64 screen Round holes 11/64th of
an inch in diameter
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11/64 x ¾ screen Slot or oval shaped holes that in one
dimension is ¾ inch and the other is
11/64 inch
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6 x 20 screen Wire mesh screen with 6 wires/inch in one
direction and 20 wires/inch in the other
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CLIPPER OFFICE TESTER
$2400 - $3000
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SMALL MODEL CLIPPERS
Clipper Pacer Manual Seed Cleaner • Pedal powered
• Conversion kit
• 50 bushels/hour
Clipper 334
• 3 screens
• $15,000 US
• 120 -250 bushels/hr.
Seed cleaning room at Fedco
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CLEANING SEED BY WEIGHT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY)
• Air /Wind
• Hand held hair dryer with cool setting
• Air compressor
• Fans of all sizes
• Shop Vac
• Air columns
• Gravity table
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WINNOWING SEED WITH A FAN
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I-TECH SMALL ELECTRIC WINNOWER
www.efn.org/~itech/
http://ltras.ucdavis.edu/files
All I Tech designs are public domain, a gift to humanity
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http://vegetables.wsu.edu/NicheMarket/WSU-SeedCleaner.html
WSU Seed Cleaner Washington State University
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REAL SEEDS AIR COLUMN
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HAWTHORN FARM VERSION
Air flow control
valve
Lighter debris and
hollow seeds
Seed intake
Clean seed
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GRAVITY TABLE
Laboratory size gravity seperator $46,000.
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GRAVITY TABLE
Laboratory size gravity separator $46,000.
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Spiral Lab Separator
Profile Industries
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ODDS & ENDS
masks
Magnifying lens
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DRYING AMBIENT TEMPERATURE
Tomato seed drying at room temperature on ceramic
plate takes 3-10 days depending on ambient weather.
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SEED DRYING UNDER COVER
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DRYING WITH ADDITIONAL HEAT
Squash seed drying on a screen above a woodstove. A
small fire keeps air warm and dries seed in 2-3 days.
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STACKING SHELVES WITH FAN
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TRAY DRYER
.
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WALK IN HEATED SEED DRYER
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EXHAUST FAN, HEATER & SHELVING
$3000
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