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Butter Bean / Pea Sheller Pictures
Pictures Below are from 2005. The
metal drum has been discontinued.
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Shelled Beans |
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Up Close |
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Hulls
I no longer include a hull tray as pictured.
Most of my customers and I find it easier just to dump the hulls on
the floor and clean up later. The floor can hold a lot more hulls than
the tray. Not having to mess with the hull tray saves time.
These beans were run for 5 minutes. Running longer will get all the
beans shelled but you will start to get more trash. When shelling
you can remove shelled beans after 3 minutes. Place another bean
tray in the machine and run it another 5 minutes. This will assure
you get all the beans and most of the trash will be in the second
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Same Machine ~ Shelled Purple Hull
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Close up ~ These Peas had been picked at least a week and kept in
refrigeration. The hulls were weak and soft causing more shells to
break apart and fall into the bean tray. I will mention I got 100%
shell rate with these and very fast.
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Pea Hulls |
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Hand pick trash out on a cleaning
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Example of a cleaning table |
| Basically, a cleaning table is any kind of blower or fan mounted or
placed to force air through a bean tray which blows out 80 – 90% of
the trash. This was a standard store bought box fan which turned out
not to be powerful enough. I like to use squirrel cage fans out of
central units. The 110 volt fans are hard to come by so I tried
this.
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Old Cleaning Table |
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This Cleaning Table is my Grandfathers. It’s probably 25 years
old.
The fan is an old kitchen exhaust fan.
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Feel Free to contact me anytime if you have any
questions.
Cell# 252-562-4300
Email
fbyrum@cottonman.com
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