Threshing Wild Rye With A Leaf Shredder?! 

I needed this video today - I find this "back to basics" type of content puts me in a good mood.

I use a pinewood flail on my drill/bucket setup. It's hard on the heads and gentle on the grains. Also I try to limit the amount of hay in the bucket as it kinda protects the heads from the flail. Keeping grains intact is of great importance for me as I'm trying to preserve old grains from my region. Awesome that you found the right tech for your needs though.

Screen door effectiveness: Submarine: Negative 100% Wood chipper/thresher: 80-90%

"using a flail and hitting the heads repeatedly" Wasn't that how the crusades worked too?

Just found you folks via TKOR. I'm adding you to my off-grid and Make Stuff playlists. Thanks for this content. While watching this, I seem to remember a machine I saw on a commune way back in the very early 80s. It was an old round stainless washing machine tub, the type with lots of holes. There was a vertical shaft with a handle that was set up with cross-braces to keep it centred. Attached (welded) to the shaft were a heap of thin rods or blade type projections. It was right near the wheat grinder (I have hand-ground a 50kg bag of wheat seed in the past, yes), but I never knew what it was for. Now I think I do. The people there used to buy their wheat, but they had grown rice on occasion. This was in the tropics where wheat doesn't do so well due to the rain and humidity. I'm now guessing that's how they threshed the rice.

Yikes, $3 an hour and that's with a machine. This feels like a demonstration of how mechanisation increases wealth - either because grain is so cheap today thanks to agricultural machinery, or because you would be paid so little without it.

I would turn the leaf shredder throttle down to idle or just above.

A pair of rubber conveyor belts running in opposite directions at a distance slightly more than a single grain, like rubbing it between your hands. With a good blower perpendicularly on it, it should also clean it up pretty good before the grains come out the end. Thoughts?😉 Especially for bigger volumes.

I would LOVE to see a video of you guys making a DIY Hops cone harvester (humulus lupulus) That stuff takes forever to harvest by hand!

As I sit looking at my trailer full of rye that needs threshed, I thank you for posting this video. Hopefully it works for me somewhere near as well as it worked for you.

Try a different leaf shredder. Worx leaf shredder from home depot uses string trimmer cords and is a cylinder that drops material down into bag.

Clever👌👍

This was really cool to see - I definitely want to try this out!

Great video. Was planning on planting an acre of rye but no one in the region has the machinery. So i thought about improvising some. You just convinced me it is not worth it. Gonna buy my rye, thanks

Hmmmm. What if you replaced the blade (which is designed to cut) with some sort of flat bar that would beat against the heads rather than cut them? Also, you can buy a bag that attaches to the chipper so you don't make such a big mess.

You still have some steps. Malt, ferment, and distill

How about a chicken plucker with the rubber heads? Or a cement mixer with some pea rock tumbling around inside?

I would suggest changing from knives in the shredder to blunt hammers from bar stock maybe

You are doing it wrong! the way to do this is get a guitar amp, put raw material near the speaker, turn all knobs to the right(max) and start playing some Slayer. Should work also with drums or vocals. Bass not so much. Perhaps this is why there's no bass in thrash metal... Edit: Ok 6:58 is pretty close I grant you that :)

Gosh

Could you thresh using a high powered shop vac with an appropriately sized mesh over the hose end which was connected to a hole in the bottom of your 5 gallon bucket?

There is this thing that's made in india quite a lot. It would be a simple build based around a 44gal barrel.

wow!!!

Trivia - 2 grains of rye produce a 1oz shot of whiskey.

Sing a song of sixpence,A pocket full of rye.Four and twenty blackbirds,Baked in a pie.

how about using a flail? :-)

Yo dude, the blonde guy in this channel was my highschool science teacher. Wassup dude!

Still a nice harvest :) Did the winnowing had any negative effect on the broken kernels?

Would running the rye through a huge comb-like thing like the Japanese senba-koki thresh the rye efficiently I wonder?

I have trashed millet...if that counts 😅

watch out for sclerotia

Rye is it you put out such great videos on such basic subjects, they really are the thresh in this field. Sorry, sorry. ;-)

It's too bad you didn't go all the way and bake it into something for this video or as a mini-series!

What brand is that gas thresher?

Im found you guys through The King Of Random , and after a mini binge of learnig about roadside rye and how to make use of it , I am quite impressed. Keep up the good work

Did you, and how/who, get permission to harvest the rye? (I mean, I know no one actually cares, but I kinda want to know the best way to not just ask for permission, but get a response)

why, WHY did you guys trash all of the hay? there is no point as seeds are in the top of it

strimmer

Read this comment if you want to be amazed by modern ag tech. Don't read it if you want to feel good about your day's work. $50 is the retail price for 45 pounds, but wholesale for rye is what most farmers would get and that's only about $0.20 per Kilogram, which puts your 45 pounds at about $4.08 which comes out at about $0.25 per hour (less if that 16 hour estimate didn't include reaping time). But hey, an 8 hour work day puts you at $2 and that's 10 cents above the global poverty line so you're doing better than about 700 million humans on this planet. This US gov report (www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/reports/cropan19.pdf) shows an average of 30.9 bushels per acre rye yield in 2018. This website (www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/html/a3-16.html) says that for corn, the average combine harvester can do 8.7 acres per hour (I'm guessing it's similar for rye). 56 lbs per bushel of rye puts the average combine harvester at just over 15,000 pounds of rye in an hour and would do all of the work that you did in just under 11 seconds. Did your 16 hour estimate include reaping time? I did about 15 pounds this year (most I've ever done) and I averaged 2 lbs an hour for all of the work combined and that was using a sickle and traditional hitting-a-pile-with-a-stick threshing. I have maybe harvested and threshed 45 pounds of rye in my entire lifetime so it's pretty cool that you guys did it in just one season

I can relate to the mask. Pollen allergies are horrible.

6:50 how to put more plastic in your diet

What does winnowing mean?

#graindamage

Back in the socialist days of Romania, rye was considered a very problematic pest