DIY pellet mill
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- This is my pellet mill that I build , hope you guys can improve on the design , I made this video because I could not find a video on TH-cam that shows how the DIY thing works, only videos of pictures
hope this helps
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Hi Phillip. Very nicely explained demonstration. So often people put things on you tube but keep the important things a secret. Well done for the a to z explanation. Nice to see a good old South African boer seun on you tube.
thank you for the kind comment and thanks for watching
Good build. I used to operate a pellet mill making chicken feed. They were California Pellet Mills with rotary dies. I've always wanted to build a pellet mill at home with a rotary die myself. You did well, same principles involved.
As an engineer, I can tell you, we use quite a bit of different methods to fabricate pellets, mostly mineral ones, but the idea is the same. It´s awesome how your built does exactly what you want. This must be great to feed rabbits. Thanks for taking the time to share and upload. And the recipe of your mixture is a plus that deserves a ton of likes!! thanks again.
I am looking to fabricate pellets where the pellets don't break easily. Could you advice on the machine?
I love how u said it at the beginning, "I don't have money to buy one but will build ur own " so that set me for a challenge I will send u mine once done
👀
Meat grinder disks are readily available in any size. I am sure you can double them up for a thicker height. Thank you for the instruction. Exactly what I needed.
Brilliant idea 💡 thanks so much
What a good idea and execution. I’ve wondered how to build a machine to make pellets from the sawdust generated in my work shop.
Thank you so much for the video. I was trying to make this much harder than it has to be.
Great job. Thanks.
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Solid design! Thanks for helping me understand this kind of machine!
Youre a one man army. The right hand is the camera guy. The left hand is the actor.
Nice job thanks for showing.
Lots of folks will tell you what you should have done.
It's great to see what you Have done it will inspire many !
thank you but it is good if folks tell what you have should have done i do take the info to heart and build a better one thanks for your comment and thank you for watching my video
+Phillip Fourie hi did u ever make a new mill
great comment
Nice video.. 👌. Could you please tell me the thickness of the plate you used as die?
Awesome build. Thanks for sharing!
I think that if you drill a flare on the top of all the holes in the plate the pellets will be more compressed. Also once the plate gets hot from production, the pellets will stick together better.
love the ambiton for creating out of necessity. love the haywire. you cant have a fine tuned machine without some haywire involved 😝👍
mooi man .
Thanks you helped me alot now i can do pallets from different woods . i can't buy in cape town pellets for my smoker .
thanks again for your hard work .
thank you for watching
Starch is usually added as a binder. Make sure all the holes have a slight taper. You won’t get good pellets until it gets up to temp.
Good subject. good demo. Thank you showing your machine working.
thank you sir and thanks for watching
Great work... thanks for explaining.
Well done fella! Congratulations
I like this - very well thought through Phillip - nicely done
+Frans Badenhorst Thank you Franse and thanks for the comment
Love the video boet, much simpler than what I thought it would be. I think I might attempt it myself as well, but just use a thicker plate for longer pellet (and have it machined). Thanks for sharing!
you made a very good observation that was my problem i needed a thicker plate
Thanks a lot for your video, people love you man...great vid
yea...but the machine have to be improved
Well done Phillip. That is a really neat machine you built there. Very well explained.
+Hennie van der Merwe Thanks Hennie hope it helps some guys
Great video! I'm doing a project similar to this and I wanted to see if you did wend up creating a 2nd version with the input from all the comments? If so, what did you end up changing?
very well done. thanks for all the info. with this video anyone could build one.
+bos dad thank you and thanks for watching , I posted this video to show people that it can be build and it would help them to build their own so thank you again
Mate, I know this video is quite old and you probably have figured this one out already but maybe for someone watching your video:
To increase the strength of the pellet use a thicker top plate and drill slightly tapered holes. This easy and minor modification will make a longer and more durable pellet. All in all a great mill you put together in here.
Dear sir. You are defnetly a nice person. Thank you for sharing your work. Do you think is it possible to build up a bigger machine to make pellets of olive pomace?
bravo, excellent, super fantastic work
Awesome job. Some really smart engineers in the pelleting business and their machines also work. You may try adding a little wheat flour to get better quality pellets. A little cooking oil will also help the pellets to form better. Before and after each run, use 1 kg of dry material and 100 ml oil to clean and lube the moving parts. You can reuse this cleaning material.
Cuánto le agradezco su invento,es genial y con su explicación ya logré entender cómo prepararme uno para mis necesidades del campo agricola...
If your pelleting feed, injecting steam in the mash feed and let it be absorbed for a couple of seconds will give you a pellet that is not as dry and should carmelize the corn resulting in a pellet that has elasticity until it drys. We ran the pellets through a cooler which essentially was a perforated conveyor with air blowing through the trays.
Thank you! Very helpful!
thank you for watching
Do you need the molasses. I thought the lignen in the plants made it bond togeather with the friction of the rollers
I’ve been trying to find one on Amazon but all I’m finding is feed mills thanks for the help
Very impressive, indeed. Especially with your first model. I'm going to try it after seeing this. I've wanted a pelletizer for a long time now. I think I'll try a gas engine with a flywheel.
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Very nice. Between the video and the comments this will be a great start to make my own. Very well done for 1st attempt. ✌️🤟
Thank you so much for sharing this video
Thanks. It's really helpful video. Good work thanks for sharing
yea..correct
I think larger grooves in your rollers would help also.
cool video phillip .got no money to buy pellet press but i can sure build one. thanks man .good job .
+Lorna Nichol hey Lorna i am in the same boat as you thats why i build it , some people dont have the funds to go buy what ever they need , we have to make do what we have and our skills , peace thanks for watching ! and good luck
Thanks for a great video!
Thanks for watching
Baie goeie video. Sal defnitief jou idee gebruik. Dankie Phillip.
really great idea
Very good presentation- helped me a lot!
thank you for whatching , but i think i can do alot better hope it helped you some way good luck God bless
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Sir, nice job, very talented to make that!!! You said in video you didn’t have money enough to buy a mill so you did it yourself!!!! Your a very talented man!! Hard to believe that your so intelligent and not making a fortune! By now you probably have perfected your pellet mill small imperfections?? I’d pay you to make me one?? Any way good luck and I admire you for your ingenuity!!
great comment
Hi there, thank you so much for this information this is very helpful.
Thank you for Watching and your kind comments
You need to increase the angle on the feed shoot so it doesn't clog.You also want to have replaceable plates on the surface of your rollers. Gearing it down to a lower speed and higher torque will also help.
Thanks, yes a agree lower RPM will be alot safer and more torque as you have stated I have received alot of advice in the comments, l have a new design that I want to try out
I love how the _exact moment_ you say "I've gotta getta tripod" there is actually a tripod _right there_ in the background. LOL!
but it is for the brick layer lazer , it wont fit on my camera , thanks for whatching the video in detail lol!
i got one now for the camera and internet very very costly internet
Aye: noticed that too...and then thought 'there must be a really good reason why he isn't using it'. Thread is the wrong standard - there are so many standards.
Dankie Phillip, het self gedink om n masjien te koop maar soos j sê hulle is ma duur. Watse motor moet ek na kyk?
Very educational. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching and for your kind comments
you need more holes in the press plate as theres alot of flat surface area the rollers will just squash the material to the plate not into it. also try having abit of a counter sink sort of edge on your holes at the top, this will alow more material to enter the hole and be more compact :)
+nathan boardman Wow you know your stuff i will try to build it like you said for my new pelletmill again thanks for watching
+nathan boardman 5 months late
You can also install a mechanical vibrator on the dropout chute ,so you don't have to use your hand
Nice one Philip i will try make my own one day thanks for info more power like it.
Thank you for watching and your time to comment, and for the complement
Very good l have learnt so much will try making one
please do thanks for watching
This is excellent I work for a factory here in new zealand called nutrimix we do 1000kg=1tonne of mineral pellets a day we have a lot of issues with our pelletiser due to the consistency of formula mixture to dry so have be precise
Beejay Dixon
Just a suggestion, you may want to rig up some sort of steam source. A adjustable amount of steam would allow you to cook your pellets and it will help the mix bind giving you a harder pellet when they set up, instead of a crumbling one. But I'm sure your pellets there meet your needs. Great build thanks for putting this up.
Thanks for watching , the only problem for me with steam is i have solar panels , and dont have the KW to hookup i steam source
@@PhillipFourieZA for steam from solar: perhaps a parabolic collector from an old satellite dish or make a longitudinal one with central tube and reflective mylar? or a small pressure cooker pot on a small wood fire/rocket stove? But I suspect you can avoid using steam if your die is hot and your feed stock has a moisture contact you verify is proper for your material. You might consider a hot water coil around the die area to help heat the die if you need it (run a tiny pump off a contact wheel off your main pulley or with contact-type bicycle generator?) I think too hot for feed pellets and some nutrition is lost.
How thick is your die plate please? What kind of steel did you use? Have you ever run wood through it for fuel pellets? Was great to see your work, thank you for sharing it!
I couldn't place the accent until you said that it was draaibank in afrikaans. Stay safe out there.
Awesome job guy
+Virginia Eichholz hey man thank you and thanks for watching
Awesome 👍
Could potentially use aluminium instead of steel as milling the holes would be easier and significantly cheaper, could even use a thin steel plate for support if you're worried about pressure cracking. As for steam you could heat a pressurised tank with the outlet going Into the lower compartment or upper. Could use a old fire extinguisher and modify the pipe to release the pressurised air. I've got a few sheep and just been looking up Mills to reduce cost on buying store pellets, think they're about 8mm x 20mm, what mix do you use and what's the difference in cost buying the raw materials? I think a bag of feed here in the UK is around £10 for 25kg. Cheers
Very nice job,budy. You need to ad some water in material,from 11-15% moisture.
Thx for sharing!
Hello, it's a wonderful machine; how thick is the perforated plate? Best regards.
nice attempt man thank you
thank you for watching
Keep the trommel filled up with more material and you will get better pellets.
You want friction when the pellets are made so a little bit of heat will get in the hole plate.
This "friction heat " will bond the lignine in the fiber and help to get better pellets.
Also a smaller poelie on the electro motor will give you lower rpm but more torque ... and therefore more power 👍😀.
You need to taper the holes on the top of the top die plate. That will result in pellets that are harder and not as crumbly. The material is compressed much better with tapered holes.
Thanks for the comment , hope someone reads your post, and it helps them , thank you again for watching and for your comments , God bless
That's pretty cool working machine!
Can you make leaves into pellets?
Thanks for the idea !
good now go build one
I am. Currently scrounging for materials, which as you can agree...are somewhat hard to locate after all the scrapping that has been going on in recent years.
Very informative video.Thanks for sharing. God bless you
Thank you
Thank you. Very so much.
this was 5years ago any other ideas since then ? Thks again for Sharing
How did you get your feed material chopped so finely? Have you tried un_chopped?
Howdie ya make it Easy to build thank you for Sharing Your Ideas Will keep ya Posted on my Plan of your Design What Size is The Motor ya using is it 220 or 110 Amp
Hi did u ever build a new mill would like some info to
Build one
sir have doubt in thickness of top plate and rollers weight. motor capacity
Pretty neat
Thanks
can you recommend to me any handbook that can help me design a coffee husk pelletizing machine?
Very nice bro.
Would that method work for wood smoking pellets for bbq smoking?
Did you taper the holes on the die plate?
ive watched quite a few designs. most have wheels on the surface 50 % touching parts and 50 % cutted out
and the distance between the holes are as far as the cutted out pieces. bit hard to explain lol
but the reason they do that is the material can be pushed in the holes. and between the holes it can escape in the cutted part of the wheel. it also adds more heat and it cuts the material a bit more..
I think I understand lol , I want to build I new unit have a design that I want to try alot lower speed less moving parts but thanks for the comment I check other designs also before a attempt my new unit
For reference, a commercial (Templewood) mill produced about 500 pounds/hour per motor horse power. dies were about 2" thick and holes tapered. hope this helps
Ha! You're a genius!
Works great after you clean out the holes
What about after the holes get clogged up ?
How long can you run it before clogging up again?
I just pour water on the mills and then it tends to loosen
I love the video
Thanks so much
Hi Phillip ons bou ook nou n home made een. watter compression ratio het jy gekies of wat is plaat dikte en gate diameter.
dankie
Werner
Hi, I'm from Belgium.need some information please.How manny bearings did you us on the driving axle?? I supose one on the bottem plate??How do you do that??. Hope to get answer. THX
Flare the drill holes with a larger size drill bit for better compaction and smoother pellets also it will reduce stress on the motor.
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Works for me ,, nessity the mother of invention
Thank you so much
The pellet machine's i've seen, its the rollers that move not the strainer, but I guess works both ways. Also, pellets for feed can use a starchy liquid (potatoes, rice etc.) as a binder or if you're making pellets for stove burning same dif using dried grass clippings & shredded newspaper etc. I''ve also thought of using an old hand crank meat grinder and a drill! could motorize it and modify a hopper for it too! Just thinkin outloud!
+R Pace i think i saw someone who used a meat grinder design just google it and it worked very good thanks for watching
Nice job, what did you do with the hole's in the plate? One size or did you drill half 6 and half 6,5mm?
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Hi phillip
I have your advice about pallet mill
I actually made it and taking a 1st trail with wood saw and engine oil mixture and it doesn't work pallet doesn't come out can you please help me to correct them
Really good video. Your proof of concept is good and the comments added by others seem like good ideas to improve on your project. Thanks for posting this for the rest of us DIYers.
I'd love to see your upgraded version when you "finish it". That's a joke, of course, because nothing like this is ever truly done! Well done.
hi Brad i made i smaller unit works great but cant handel a heavy load will post soon thanks for watching
Phillip,
"... gravity has its way..." That's one of the most interesting ways I've ever heard of expressing the effects of gravity!
I enjoyed the video! Thank you!
Would you do anything different if you were to make the pellet machine today?
Thanks again,
Old Matt
what he meant to say is centripetal force
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This is awesome. Can make a video on how you did it
Buenos dias amigo que velocidad de trabajo tiene la maquina (rpm)
wonderful job Mr Phillip. Do you have a video showing how you build the interior part Under the plate and what did you use to make that middle shaft stands straight while the rollers are pressing the material to make pellets. I want to make also for my goat and pigs feeding and maybe for the tilapias if the die has smaller holes. About the die plate. Did you drill the holes yourself or you had special Tools for that. Thanks a lot for your help. Much appreciated.
i use two pillar blocks to hold the shaft straight from the motor , the plate i drilled it myself takes alot of time and drill bits
se puede hacer pellet de papel y cartón?
Great video. Just one question if the raw material blocks the holes on the disc what Can i do
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What is the mechanical process that crushes sawdust and turns it into granules?
Hallo Phillip, stuur ASB vir my die mates and sizes,Wil een probeer bou! Fotos,motor ratio en fanbelt pulley en plaat sizes sal Baie help? Great job 👏. Groete Gert.
I have a suggestion for you. add a hopper that tappers down to a slide valve. this should limit the feed and allow you to fill the hopper with more material at one time.
+bos dad Will do thank you for the info will try and sort this thing out