You see them at harvest collecting lots of peas ready to be frozen, but how do they do it? This video will hopefully show you how these amazing bits of kit work! www.hmcpeas.co.uk
I live in Aroostook County Maine, which is mostly potato country, but when I was a kid there was a Birdseye processing facility near where I live and peas were also a very common crop. I was fascinated by the pea viners as a boy and, though they were quite a bit different than the machine depicted in this video, I believe the concept was the same. Great memories!
I worked on these things after going through a course on them in 1974 , a french woman thought up the idea of two drums ,running at different speeds , the outer one being the riddle drum and the inner one is the beater drum which become closer together as the pea haulm travels along the entire length of the machine . Brilliant machines which stay level in both directions regardless of the terrain they are working on , the levelling system is controlled by Mercury switches on the chassis . The ones I worked on were pulled by tractor , now they are self propelled
@@blairthandi7058 No, this is wrong. Hay is animal fodder made from grass. Pea straw is very high in nitrogen which the farmer needs to grow cereals, which ALWAYS follow peas. It will be ploughed back in as free fertiliser.
