Today we cleaned up some of the rye and put it in a storage bin.
The rye first comes out of the gravity box (far left) then is augered up into our fanning mill (center) which cleans the seed. Cleaning removes chaff, weed seeds, grasshoppers etc.
Here's a close up of the rye coming out of the gravity box. The auger is inside the metal pipe.
Rye after one pass through our seed cleaner. This rye will be pig food so running it through the mill once is good enough.
After the seed is cleaned another auger transfers it into the black plastic tub. This auger is a little bit big for the job. We have another smaller shorter one I'll fix and modify this winter.
A third PTO ( power take off) powered auger transfers the rye to the storage bin.
View of the whole operation from atop the storage bin.
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