Grain Cleaners

Josh in Pa · Oct 2, 2011

I would like to clean my own rye to plant for a cover crop. I've been spinning it on and this works well for me, but next year I would like to sell some, and I think it would be more marketable if it was clean enough to drill. I can get it very nice with the combine, but not good enough to drill. What kind of grain cleaner do I need, how do they work, and what do they cost? I've never seen or been around a grain cleaner before. Thanks in advance,
Josh

John_PA · Oct 2, 2011

where in PA are you?

I know of a Feterl 85 for sale on this end of the state.

For cleaning rye, you want to get a small rotary screen cleaner that goes in line with your auger. instead of emptying your gravity box into the auger hopper, you unload into the cleaner hopper, the grain goes roundy round in the rotary screen, then drops out the other end into your auger hopper and up up and away. the process doesn't slow down unloading very much. You just have to be sure to get teh right sized screen for hte crop you are doing.

Leroy · Oct 2, 2011

What you want is commonly called a fanning mill and good ones will take out both oversize and undersize cleanings. I do not think the rotary type would take out pieces of straw and that type of material, only dirt smaller than the seed as it would have to have 2 screens for that. Look for A.T.Ferral, (Clipper Fanning mill) they still make new fanning mills and are located in Bluffton, Indiana. That should give you good ideas to go on. And there mills are what the sead companys used for years. Once you know what to look for there are farm sized used units avaible used.

Josh in Pa · Oct 2, 2011

I am in Chester county. Which side of the state are you on?
Josh

mazemeister · Oct 2, 2011

i also harvest my own rye, for my own use. instead of a fanning mill, i just auger the rye back into the combine separator. i close down the seive and chaffer a tiny bit, also close the concave one notch since i don"t have to worry about breaking up the straw anymore, then dump the grain into the top of the straw walkers. just got to angle it forward enough so it doesn"t throw out the back. i find that to get the grain clean in the tank, a tiny bit will go out the back, but that"s easily scooped up afterward.

JDseller · Oct 2, 2011

I have a Clipper grain cleaner that will do wonderful if you have all of the screens for it. I have found them at farm sales over the years. I use mine every year on wheat and oats. I usually only buy new seed every other year and clean my own the rest of the time.

Charles Stodollka · Oct 14, 2011

I have a J. W. Hance fanning mill. It is in good condition will all the screens intact. I have run some rye through it and it seems to clean well. But I think it is running backward as the fan is sucking air across the screens instead of blowing it up through.

Has any one operated or have operating instructions for a Hance? Also the screen size vs grain card on the machine is too deteriorated to understand so I am guessing on whether I have the right screens in the machine. This is the only fanning mill I have seen with two oscillating stages and its engineering seems quite modern. The fan is a steel squirrel cage and not a wood paddle type.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

TimWafer · Oct 14, 2011

Here's my video explanation of a clipper 2B

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUE2IiBtKrw

Tim

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