What to Know About Cleaning Seed! The Start of The 2022 Oat Crop!

hello and welcome to gear rock farms in today's video we are gonna be cleaning some oats we're gonna be using our old fanning mill it's pretty unique i know there's uh large scale setups out west where they still clean their own seed but uh something like this there's not a whole lot of those around anymore so that's what we're going to be cleaning we use oats as a kind of as a cover crop over the top of our our new seeding alfalfa nurse crop you could also call it we're going to dig it out of here get it all set up and then we'll kind of go over uh some of the things about the fannie mill enjoy the video [Music] how do you like this deal they got this wood pulleys just three different ones we had to use duct tape to give it some traction but the belt broke and this is the belt off a 98 pontiac but anyway don't pull much it just runs the fan so at home where i grew up my dad had a a hero about the same size the grain pretty much came out onto the floor instead of this one it's going to be underneath on its own platform but pretty much the same age and everything of it while i was using my dad's for a while we'd bring it here and clean our own oats and then take it back but then i found this from a guy that retired and then his son he retired and he wanted to see it go to a good home so he told me about it and we bought it from him i had this for what i don't know maybe seven eight years now and do a little fixing yeah so how old do you think this is well that's good what do you think this would have been built i think the first ones had a crank they got modernized a little bit they might have had like a crank somewhere that geared it up so that you didn't have to crank really fast but you know that would run the pulley but i think that's with the original ones but 1900 1910 1930s they're pretty much good forever if you never let them get you know wet or keep them shedded now this one we we don't have it here but i have like uh so the green comes out after it's cleaned it comes out under there's a hole there and there was this little like wooden elevator and you see these two bolts here would bolt to here and it came up about this level and then there was kind of a spout on the end that you could fill up like your gunny sacks with but there's like a belt in there that is getting so bad that it wouldn't work right it was more trouble trying to make it work so we just use scoop shovels and shovel it into the sacks that way yeah see here's the original belt it's still so that went like here for instance yeah and here they had to rivet it together so i'm thinking this is an original belt it looks like something someone probably made out of some different belt not surprising at all back in the day when they were trying to keep these things going but anyway then that ran that elevator so you got your pulley ran the elevator and then went to that pulley and went down to the fan and basically just shakes the grain through it and you'll see how it works when you get it going yeah so those are you that aren't familiar with like grain cleaning or like a combine but this is a lot like a shaker deck combine right yeah it's doing the same thing it's just a finer you so when you you set your combine it's okay to have a little bit of straw in there you know just you know you might see a few flakes of straw in there because you really want to save all the grain and a few flakes of straw is not going to hurt the grain otherwise you're dumping good grain out the back so the cleaner tries to make it the more that goes to waste so like here whatever goes through this machine and flies out our our stuff that isn't as good we put that to their mixer goes to feed yeah it goes so this is just like you know because it obviously this was harvested with a combine but then this is getting it even cleaner than it already was coming out of the combine so then it runs through the planter nice and that's why someone would clean their seed and so and so that's the thing and the planters where it goes through the flues and the tubes and that straw eventually would plug it yeah see so that's really why and then the other reason is there's weed seeds and there's there's weeds and everything but sometimes it's worse than other years this is just some nice grain we had this last year anyway so if you had like we've had trouble with that yellow mustard that's got a little seed it's almost like a i don't know it's not really as small as sugar but it's small yeah that'll go right into your grain and then this thing will sort all that out so that you're not planting weeds with your grain again so you try to break that cycle the best you can so that's really what we're doing and this costs none this is just time it's too wet to do other things because the frost is still in the ground we got a trailer we stack it on and gunny sacks and uh i think we should wait we should get one of our house scales down here we we never really waited way one of them yeah just to get a better feel of what because so then when we seed i don't know what are we you know between 80 and 100 pounds acre we put in you know so that gives us a better gauge of how much do we need because you don't want to run short and have to set this whole thing up and we're trying to see then if we're got a couple extra bags well we could either feed them with with with a grain mix or or save them put them in a drill for cover crop or for next year yeah next year or if we have to do a waterway or something later on in the summer so we got some clean oats in the drill but yeah we're gonna set it up and get our trailer over here so we can get to work okay towards me so these screens just have about 10 12 different screens and first it falls through that one and then then the weed seed or whatever would fall through this one and the oats would go on top and so it sorts it out more but you got different size screens for this can do wheat and rye and barley and so this one goes in here see i'm trying to remember from last year i know the small one goes underneath so this spine one goes underneath and then this heavier one goes on top so yeah maybe plywood for there because it's so damp or something yeah maybe we should get a sheet of plywood so he's gonna go get a sheet of plywood because the ground is so damp here so when we start filling our gunny sacks from our clean grain the last thing we want is some dampness to get into sacks because if you get moisture on the seed it's going to germinate and you don't want that then this is the hopper and then we have this these finger nuts that you can adjust this gap here so the seat flows through only at the right pace so it has time to actually clean it every seat is going to flow differently as far as what the crop is but they built an extension for it figure out which way that goes on so these are old cream cans and my dad used to do this where he he put these gunny sacks inside there so the mice didn't get at him one of them's got string in it too so we don't [Music] those old burlap bags these go bad pretty quick these plastic ones ended up being a little better and then here's our oats during last year was ideal for oats you remember that crop it didn't nothing lodged it was i think out of 30 years here that was the best oats we've ever had even the guy that combined he's been around a while and he was quite impressed and the straw and everything about it was good it's almost clean enough when you look at it but there's always if you get a little piece of straw and you get enough of that after seating all day pretty soon that's just enough handful of those will plug up one of your openers and it doesn't look so pretty when that stuff comes up then afterwards but yeah when we're planting the cover crop we don't really care if it's clean or not but yeah for this stuff you want it uh you want to keep your uh your seed clean enough where you aren't going to mess up your planting and plug around well yeah we just pretty much just have one person peeling it in now we could actually one guy could actually run this but the problem would be here is somebody there's nobody to hold the sack while you're shoveling it so you can get quite fun anglish but you can get it done two sometimes three [Music] so my dad tell me how to do this so grab in the middle you always shake your bag down of course and then you kind of pull it from one side hold it from the other side little wad there to hold on wrap around maybe a couple times like that so then all you have to do is pull this string and then unwrap it and you're ready to go there we got one so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] to [Music] [Applause] [Music] somewhere huh off-roading you want some fancy pit in here you want to shake yeah so we finished up here we got how many bags what do we got i think we got a little over 20 here got a couple halves because the bag had a hole in there or something yeah so 20 or so bags and they're probably 60 to 80 pounds a piece but i wanted to take some time and show you guys what we're accomplishing so here is your clean grain and they're all uniformed and the same size and that will ensure that they run through the planter or the drill really well and then over here is our cleanings i don't know how well the camera's picking it up but there's a lot of smaller seeds a lot of chaff a lot of junk in there and here's what the fan was kicking out some bigger pieces essentially what we did is we created a uniform seed and then um if you were worried about it say you had some really old oats that you're trying to use for seed you know you like had them in storage for you know over four or five years and you were worried about how well they would germinate you'd want to do a germination test so you take a handful and you'd put them in a towel in a warm place and then you give them a couple days and see how many of them germinate and that would ensure that you know you're not going to put all this effort into cleaning seed and then it's just junk anyways we got a nice wagon full of seed for this year's uh oats we're gonna clean up and uh we'll check back in when we're done oh and all of our cleanings uh we'll just use it for feed is what we'll do we'll just put it in the mixer you know it's obviously not as nice as the the kernels that we took out of there but um nothing's gonna go to waste here we're gonna clean it all up and uh the stuff we're not using for seed is gonna go for feed so can't complain so all right so we got done with that project we want to wish uh wish you guys luck any of you that are putting in a crop this year and uh for the rest of you i hope you learned something i hope you enjoyed watching make sure to like and subscribe and uh if you know anyone that would be interested share it with them we'd appreciate it but thank you we'll see in the next video [Music] you

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Length: 20min 10sec (1210 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 23 2022