My most recent batch of corn is very very dusty, with lots of cobs and stalk pieces. Anyone have a link for a good DIY cleaner handy? I tried burning the corn as is, but the dust hangs up on the chute, and starts on fire there. Not a good place for fire to be burning. Not sure how likely I am to have a hopper fire with corn, but I'd rather not find out.
Dex used to sift his fines out of his pellets...maybe his setup would work on corn? Good luck we no want a fire in our hoppers! Ate some spicey chili a few weekago and my hopper was on fire for two days!!
I got this one to do a small batch of wheat to see how it would burn. Now that i know it burns well I'm switching to the fanning mill. It works pretty well in my opinion. Certainly much better when you have a vaccum hooked up. http://m.ebay.com/itm/281489499964?nav=SEARCH
This is the one I used to use.......was discussed on the "other" forum extensively. Should work fine for corn, with the addition of a piece of 1/4"(?) screen in the bowl on top to catch stalks/cob pieces. Also has a adjustment to raise or lower the amount of vacuum. Works best w/ a small shop vac. Approx. $20-25 with parts from big box store. Other ideas for the bowl were cut down 5 Gal water jugs.....both round & square ones have been used.
Here's the exact parts and prices, and diagram. The screen mesh was just a piece of expanded metal "gutter guard" that I cut into circles w/ tin snips. 1/4 dowel rods are criss-crossed to knock more dust off pellets/corn as they tumble through. The top 180* elbow in the pic above were just extra's I added to get the vacuum hose down lower: 1. 1 - 1/4"x3' dowel - $0.98 2. 1 - gutter guard - $1.94 3. 1 - 3"x2" PVC adapter - $3.36 4. 1 - 2"x45° PVC - $1.32 5. 1 - 3"x3"x2" "Y" PVC - $3.38 6. 1 - 3"x2' PVC pipe - $4.29 7. 1 - 2"x2' PVC pipe - $2.38 Total: $17.65 plus tax (approx.)
mithesaint Also, as you can see in the 2nd pic, I took a piece of spare 3" and cut a piece out that I snapped over the section where the holes were....you can slide it around and adjust the vacuum so you don't get corn sucked up into the vac. Trial & error on that. Small-ish shop vac works best.
I still have mine if you wanted it? Yours if you want it. I am further than Lowes, but it's already in operating condition. Just add a Shop vac.
And I made mine off of imacmans design as well. I don't have a pic on my phone, but it's in a boxed frame. (Edit- I Google sifter and I found my pic)
Already put together and used. Worked pretty good, but the corn was so dirty that I had to keep cleaning the screen on the sifter. Takes a long time, but I don't have much choice. Gotta get the corn cleaned or I'm gonna have a problem. Thanks again Imacman!
No problem! Glad you got it together. Did you put a screen in the feed "bowl", or did you mean the screens in inside got plugged?
I think you're onto something here.. Because corn has chunks that are much larger than the corn, I would place a screen large enough for corn and some smaller cobs/etc to pass through and then have the other screen to catch that smaller stuff. With pellets it's the opposite. Everything you want removed is smaller. So the screen in place now is enough.
It's the screen on the inside. I have a screen in the bowl, but that's no problem. I also have a screen where the 3" to 2" adapter is, and the "bee wings" and other fines/dirt are plugging that screen. I have one piece of gutter guard in place for that screen. This corn is just really, really dirty.
