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Clipper Fanning Mills ability to grade shelled corn

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Farmallb

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I never heard that they could do this. IF so, do they do a good job. I always thought that all they did was to blow chaff and stuff off the seed.
 
I have an old one here that has different seed grates you put in. I bought it many years ago to be able to clean and size OP corn and beans. One more thing I just never got to.
 
I've got an old Hance Vac-A-Way that can sort corn but I don't have all the screens. I have the slotted screen that will separate flats from rounds and the screen that sorts small rounds from large but there were other screens to grade the sizes of flats that I don't have.
 
Got one here but have not done corn yet.
A friend has one and he cleans corn with his before grinding into meal.
Just need correct screens which are still available from A. T. Ferrell, Co.
Richard in NW SC
 
I think with a good selection of screens you could do it. I take it this is just to save some seed to replant and you are feeding the rest? You would have to select a top screen to scalp off the large stuff and a small screen to let fines or real small seed fall through.
Josh
 
NO you cannot grade corn with a Clipper type mill, To grade you have to first be able to seperate round and flat kernels, then seperate them for length, then width and thickness and the Clipper can do none of this. You can clean good enough for feeding use or even for grinding cornmeal to eat. For that you would need screens close enough that it would sort of grade to small, medium or large kernels but you could not seperate rounds from flats as you would need to do for grading.
 
IS your corn already shelled or is it on ears??? How much seed are you going to need???

When farmers saved their own seed they where still picking corn. They saved the best ears for the next crop. Then they shelled the ears by hand. The would do the tips and butts first. Then they would shell the flats for the center of the ears. If you did a good job sorting the ears to ones about the same size then your seed would be pretty well sized.
 
My dad and granddad at one time farmed and rented 400 acres. I would suspect that they grew at least 50 acres corn. I can see them cutting off the butt and point ends of the ear, But, im having a bit of a problem in them shelling/grinding the middles on a corn sheller.
 
How much seed do you need to do? If not a lot just pour it on a flat table. I mean flat. Not a card table or one with any dips to it. You could then just put a plate on top of the corn if clamped lightly so as not to crush the kernels it would sort the large rounds out by tipping the table to dump it in a pail. Repeat to get more. Then you might be able to use a screen to sort out the small rounds. Or use a plateless planter and problem solved.
 
You did that by hand, not with a sheller and that way your eyes is what graded the corn to different buckets as you were shelling.
 
Never done it that way.

The fanning mill would need 2 screens of just the right size, and it would do a fair job of sorting out one seed size.

There would be some variation, but acceptable.

The trick would be finding the right sizes of screen.

Paul
 
I have one as is in the picture. Likely from the same company. I didn't know IF it was indeed a grader, or just something to winnow chaff from corn seed. It has NO marking on it to tell me what size corn it does grade. I assume, that IF it indeed is a seed corn grader, that the seed needs to fall down through the slots from the side of the kernel. BUT it seems also that in doing that that Med and large flats would both fall at the same time leaving the corn only 1/2 graded. I have plates for all size corn, BUT if the med and large flats were together, Id have to use my large flats plates to plant it, and then the med flats would either fall at a couple at a drop, or one or both get cracked.
I am in NE Okla
 
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