Foot-Powered Mini Thresher

Foot-Powered Mini Thresher COMBINES Miscellaneous A foot-powered thresher is the perfect match for family-sized grain plots or on-farm research plots Until now hand threshing was the only alternative for people growing grain in plots too small for a combine “Producing small grains such as wheat and oats in 1/2 to 1-acre patches often requires harvesting and threshing by hand ” says Jim Smith at The Back to the Land Store “These units are much faster and are being made by a Tennessee farmer who is fabricating them in his shop ” The small-scale thresher consists of a foot treadle an enclosed threshing reel and a winnowing screen When the treadle is pumped up and down connecting rods turn the reel and shake the screen Grain heads fed into the thresher enclosure are struck by U-shaped beaters mounted on the spinning reel The grain and trash fall to the vibrating screen The seed falls through to a sloped discharge chute while other materials slide off “Some chaff will fall through the screen too so the grain will require a final winnowing ” says Smith “The screen will thresh out about a pound of grain per minute on average ” Smith adds that chaff and debris does have to be removed from the screen periodically The thresher is priced at $780 New chain drive and bearings Contact: FARM SHOW Followup The Back to the Land Store 545 Salmon Branch Rd Erin Tenn 37061 ph 931 764-0034; toll free 866 764-0034; contact@backtotheland com; www backtotheland com

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