Watched Indians from India, threshing Rice by pounding with light small logs maybe 3-4in in diameter. Google hand pounded rice. Rice is hard to de-hull in general, so this technique appealed to me. They pounded a hole maybe an inch or so greater in diameter set inside a vertical hollowed log but also a horizontally oriented log with a similar “hole” women pounded their hand held poles, sometimes three women at a time, in rhythm, steady pounding seemed to do the trick. Periodically one of the women would scoop out the pounded rice and winnow it using a big almost scoop shaped flattened tray about three feet in diameter. Simple. Effective. Time tested.
I've seen a metal comb thrasher used for turning flax stocks into linen fiber. It looks like several metal combs affixed to a sawhorse with the teeth pointing up vertically. The sawhorse is bolted to the ground. You hold the thick end of the stock, thrash the stock downward onto the comb and pull the stock to detach seeds from the stock. After detaching the seeds you can thrash the stock on another set of combs that have teeth closer together and thrash it closer to where your hand is holding the stock to create long thin fibers which can be woven to make linen cloth. there are several more steps to creating flax fiber which I have skipped over but I thought that the metal comb thrashing might be a good inspiration for developing thrashing techniques.
This is awesome. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Is it a very insightful video. I have a question regarding bean and grain weevils in storage. Have you had problems with these? Do you know how to prevent them from damaging stored crops, especially in organic production? Thanks.
Regarding grain storage I suggest looking to the Vikings, and Olde England and old Europe as well. With foundations of Staddle Stones (google them) to discourage rat and mouse intrusion from below, they formed essentially tightly woven giant wicker baskets with thatched roofs. This is how granaries were routinely made. So it can be done lo-tech… its just that those skills have all but died out as to make them hi-tech because nobody knows how to do them any more!
Since corn comes from Native Americans, maybe we should take a page out of their book. For example, Hopi corn is planted at a depth of 18 inches, yes you heard that right. It is not irrigated. By the way, the Hopi lands receive about 6” of rain. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I'd like to see a profit/loss statement to see that this is economically viable. Cost of land, cost of equipment, cost of labor, cost of marketing the product, etc. vs. the income. It's not just about putting a seed in the ground.
with all the food shortages and supply chain mess we are having right now, I don't think profit matters. Just gotta grow food to survive at this point.
more than just profit, we learn more every day about how corrosive modern industrial food is to our health. health is far more expensive to fix than growing your own.
Mark Thank you for posting, I learned allot from you.
Watched Indians from India, threshing Rice by pounding with light small logs maybe 3-4in in diameter. Google hand pounded rice. Rice is hard to de-hull in general, so this technique appealed to me. They pounded a hole maybe an inch or so greater in diameter set inside a vertical hollowed log but also a horizontally oriented log with a similar “hole” women pounded their hand held poles, sometimes three women at a time, in rhythm, steady pounding seemed to do the trick. Periodically one of the women would scoop out the pounded rice and winnow it using a big almost scoop shaped flattened tray about three feet in diameter. Simple. Effective. Time tested.
I've seen a metal comb thrasher used for turning flax stocks into linen fiber. It looks like several metal combs affixed to a sawhorse with the teeth pointing up vertically. The sawhorse is bolted to the ground. You hold the thick end of the stock, thrash the stock downward onto the comb and pull the stock to detach seeds from the stock. After detaching the seeds you can thrash the stock on another set of combs that have teeth closer together and thrash it closer to where your hand is holding the stock to create long thin fibers which can be woven to make linen cloth. there are several more steps to creating flax fiber which I have skipped over but I thought that the metal comb thrashing might be a good inspiration for developing thrashing techniques.
Really appreciate these videos
Do you have a link for the no till push seeder?
This is awesome. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Is it a very insightful video. I have a question regarding bean and grain weevils in storage. Have you had problems with these? Do you know how to prevent them from damaging stored crops, especially in organic production? Thanks.
Very good, from Bangkok Thailand
I imported a stationary thresher and a dehusker from India. Cost about 4000 with import tax and shipping
Regarding grain storage I suggest looking to the Vikings, and Olde England and old Europe as well. With foundations of Staddle Stones (google them) to discourage rat and mouse intrusion from below, they formed essentially tightly woven giant wicker baskets with thatched roofs. This is how granaries were routinely made. So it can be done lo-tech… its just that those skills have all but died out as to make them hi-tech because nobody knows how to do them any more!
Since corn comes from Native Americans, maybe we should take a page out of their book. For example, Hopi corn is planted at a depth of 18 inches, yes you heard that right. It is not irrigated. By the way, the Hopi lands receive about 6” of rain. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I hope you put a hopper on that knuckle buster 4000 thresher lol
this is great information like all the living wed veds
does he talk about adding innoculants for boosting the nitrogen producing plants?
Thanks
I'd like to see a profit/loss statement to see that this is economically viable. Cost of land, cost of equipment, cost of labor, cost of marketing the product, etc. vs. the income. It's not just about putting a seed in the ground.
its not profitable. he says that in part 1. this kind of project isnt for profit.
with all the food shortages and supply chain mess we are having right now, I don't think profit matters. Just gotta grow food to survive at this point.
more than just profit, we learn more every day about how corrosive modern industrial food is to our health. health is far more expensive to fix than growing your own.
Land and (vintage) equipment are investments. Labor is love, and marketing is friendship. If you do it right, you won't work a day in your life.
Manure
Compost
Woodchips
Cover crops
Can also put to much carbon in the ground and take time to break down. All the nitrogen gets locked up in decomposition.
That thresher needs a v shaped slide to feed it
U need pins on your concave and more on your cylinder