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Re: Cleaning equipment

Scott-another type of hammermill device is a re-thrasher from an older
Massey Ferguson combine, they are available from junk yards for a very
reasonable cost.  You would need to mount it on a stand, and power it with
an electric motor and do some modifications, but it might be possible to do
a complete job for about $150.00.  They work very well for species like
Echinacea pallida which is as hard as a rock.  After processing you would
need to screen the material.  We often just plant debris and seed just
incase we missed something in the seed head.  

For small amounts of seed we use a hammer, our feet or our hands with
leather gloves. This is for our planting purposes only, but it does the job
and we get great results.   

Carl Kurtz
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>Does anyone have any references or suggestions for small-scale seed
>cleaning?
>I'm looking for some type of machine that can reduce several hundred
>pounds/year of collected material to a form suitable for seedballs.  For
>example, we'll be collecting little bluestem, and I'd like to be able to
>grind
>it down to perhaps a quarter-inch size.  I've looked at various hammermills
>on
>the internet, but they tend to be industrial size.
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>I've tried cleaning with screens at home, and it's too time-consuming.
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>Any references for simple mechanized seed collecting would be helpful as
>well...
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>Scott Lenharth
>Native Prairies Assoc of
>TX
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