Looks like your wheat was low in protein maybe in last video, dense bread. Maybe a bit more N? As far as mechanization I use a #4 copper ground wire as a flail in a drill press to thresh. I use a 4” exhaust fan to blow chaff out. Your set up looks neat too. My Mockmill kitchenaid attachment will grind about 3 cups of flour in 6 minutes, a guy should of gotten a bigger mill like the Mockmill 100 maybe.
Like to know this crop went. I'm growing wheat again her in S.W. Michigan. Did it before about three years ago. This time I got late. So It is my time to try planting spring wheat. The plot has a been fallow from weeds. Really looking forward to get it in the ground this spring. I have a scythe I need to set up with a cradle to help harvest the grains. I've got my threshing figured out but I would like to find a thresher like the one you showed here which I could barrow the time comes.
Hey, Really appreciate your project. I think it's a very necessary undergoing, and I'm glad that you've taken it upon yourself to restore these heritage wheat grains. When you're finally ready to distribute it, it will be a blessing to us all. It's a shame we so much content on organically grown vegetables on RU-vid, but see so very few on wheat. Many people I've seen have struggled with grain harvest and losing their yield. It seems you've developed a solution with the wide grate on your scythe; does this stop the grain heads breaking up when harvested? Thank you. The wife watched this with me and loved it. God bless.
This makes me think it might be cool if there was a mill at the local store or something. If people were to grow their food on a small scale themselves and then take it in to the local store for processing. But, that’s awesome you have the equipment now to do it yourself more efficiently. I really hope you no longer get black lung, that was horrible sounding. Hope you all stay healthy, and I think it’s great to learn this. I’d like to learn too, starting out with a small garden. My family is kinda split between city and country. My dad grew up in the city whereas my mom grew up in the country on a farm. I always like the country a bit more. I like making something with your own hands and the peacefulness. It just feels more like home.
Thanks Narnia. As to your first paragraph, that is exactly how life was prior to about the 1960's. Most communities in the American South, had a water-powered mill nearby, where farmers brought the wheat and corn they grew to be ground into flour and corn meal. The truth is I only have minimal equipment to do all the tasks that growing wheat requires, but I do have access to an 1800's water-powered mill that has been restored and is in operation, that can grind the wheat into flour. For that I am blessed by God. One more thing - as to the "black lung" comment: that was sarcasm and a play-on-words. There is a real disease called black lung, which is generally associated with coal miners. I used that term in jest - only trying to express that after working the dusty operation of wheat threshing, sometime coughing produced dark phlegm. It is not uncommon. Country living is more suited to humans as created by God. Humans can adapt to city life for sure, but will find the most peace in rural environs. Thanks for watching!
Not many places still make them, and those that do in the USA are very expensive. It is better in my opinion to find an antique one, like in this video, and rehab it. Another option would be to buy one from overseas - through alibaba, but then you have to pay freight, customs, and hope that what you ordered from China is what is actually delivered. Because sometimes it's not. The hand-crank machine in this video is actually called a "Fanning Mill", so if you look up that term you will see more responses than googling "thresher & winnower". What this video does not show is that it didn't really work for us. You can kind of tell this because in the time-lapse video me and my son alternate turning the hand crank and feeding the wheat. This was because it wasn't doing the job and I was trying to figure out what to adjust. It was missing a belt that would have turned the drum screen. Thank you for watching and good luck on the wheat project.
Seems you’ve ramped things up from sustaining a family to sustaining a town. I like the idea of preserving the wheat berries up until use rather than milling a bunch of flour. Both videos I’ve watched were enjoyed. Now I’ll watch the others
Thank you Supramby! I am working on other videos explaining the journey from 2017 to 2021. There has been as much victory as defeat - as much loss as gain. I have learned much. Your comments are endearing to me.
@@baneverything5580 Only once I put whole wheat berries in a soup. I boiled them until they became soft and added them to the soup for content. Other than that no. I have wanted to see if someone with home brew equipment might try to make a wheat beer out of it, but I have not pursued it much. Thank you for your comments and the other comments about callouses on hands. I love playing drums also.
This is a very well done and incredibly informative video. It should have more views. I hope you make more videos, the few you have are packed with less common but helpful information for large gardens and micro farms. Thank you!
Thank you for watching and for your very sweet comment. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 video "starts" , waiting to be finalized and edited but I lack time. Keeping a full-time job, still working now because I guess my work is "essential", and also maintaining the little farming experiment consumes much of time. I need to make time to finish several videos (and post them to my channel) that I have out there in every stage of half-doneness. Thank you for watching!
Your ability to convey information is fantastic. You are methodical and thought provoking in your approach an delivery. Like the others who commented, I want to learn more from you.
Thank you very much! I have dozens of ideas for videos, but lack time. I also work a full time job, etc. BUT I do hope to put several videos to publication this year. Wish me luck! Thank you for watching!
Really nicely done video! Excellent presentation of information, enjoyable editing. Thought I'd let you know the YT algorithm is still suggesting it despite no recent uploads from you.
Thanks for letting me know. I guess I need to get myself making videos again. I have about half a dozen video starts, but none ready to pub. Not yet. Soon I hope. Thank you for watching!
Because the content you have put up is of a very good nature, my only regret is you don't have more videos. But I am subscribed to about 42 different channels, but I still got more out of yours than many of their hundreds of videos combined. Again I find myself thanking you.
Thank you very much for your kind words. I actually had 5 video projects in the works through fall/winter of last year, many were in the editing phase. Unfortunately my CPU crashed in January and all content was lost. I would stick to one video at a time but many of them require time-lapse elements (like showing the wheat maturing, from seed to harvest etc.) so I kind of have to do it like that. At any given time I'll have several projects in the works. The good news is that I have started to collect more content and have started to BACK UP my CPU. ....imagine that.... I should have new videos ready by early-mid summer 2018. Thank you for watching!
Your welcome. It was great hearing from you. Sorry about your loss of data. It is very difficult to do that kind of project over such a long time period. Have you seen the farmhandscompanion? He puts out very little content but it is pretty good when he does. I love his floor ideas, then lazily he waits for rain.. but I bet he uses the hose then films it the next time it sprinkles some rain.. I'd grow too impatient waiting for the rain to set the mortar. I will have a differently named channel up at some point. I have nothing at the moment, still waiting on a probate court settlement before I can begin to really hunt for my future homestead in earnest. But I might throw some plain old talk videos up in the mean time, just to get more familiar with my cameras & editing. If so it will be Ana's Homestead or Ana's Homestead Dream. The last one has an 8 second old piece I was trying to load as a pic or the intro or something like that.. idk. I have a lot to learn about that stuff.
I love Farm Hand's Companion. Probably the first of this class of videos that I watched with great interest. A few years ago he used to put out a video every three months or so and I would wait in eager anticipation. Then there was a long hiatus. But yes, I love his stuff. Because of his historic interest combined with simple living, I feel closer to his work than most other RU-vidrs doing similar things. So get your channel going. I hope it goes well. High interest combined with personal experiments in subject matter makes a good start.
I am making some progress, first I reinstated my 8 year old email that was attached to this account. I thought that was going to be a problem. It wasn't. Then I verified my you-tube account so I could load up videos longer than 15 minutes. Earlier that day, I invested into three different types of el cheapo tripods. The young man at wal-mart said I could not purchase the Go Pro Stick for my little Vivitar camera because it wouldn't fit it. hehehe.. little did he know, it came with an adapter for a regular camera to mount. So the stick has a stand or a carry & walk along 4th option. Then I got one of those short 1 foot tall flexible/bendable stands like the gorilla type. Then I bought some other 'kit' that contained a head strap system for mounting a camera view of what you see.. because I saw it had a device to convert a Go Pro Camera Mount to a Standard Camera Screw Type Mount. What happened is, I got 2 of those Universal Go Pro/Standard Mount Conversions... & 3 Tripods. I don't own a Go Pro. But the nice thing is as I add Camera Types over the years I can convert any 2 Cameras at a time to any of the Tripods or the Go Pro Stick. That cost me $50. all total. I then got a few more batteries. I had only a 16 SD Card, but now I have 2 more 32 SD Cards to add to that. Then I fell into bed exhausted. I just woke. But I still haven't been able to find the option to change that Terrible "T" next to my posts/name. You have a nice picture next to yours. I saw the option only one time when I was creating the channel the first time, but never again have I been able to find it. Can you share where it is easily? Don't go to any extra trouble, eventually I will find it. Maybe I am seeing it but just don't know what it is called? Now off to reboot & find some coffee.
