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Ever used a pecan vibrator
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
... Farm1 wrote: "Steve B" wrote in message ... "zxcvbob" wrote A pee-can is something totally different. Bob And it identifies the person as clueless. I disagree. Anyone who can't spot the difference between a peecan and a pecan should be in an institution where they can receive guided help to get to the toilet or the table. this conversation is getting more and more piquant LOL. Isn't that the nature of usenet these days? |
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Ever used a pecan vibrator
"songbird" wrote in message
... Derald wrote: David Hare-Scott wrote: ... this conversation is getting more and more piquant oooow; still groaning here peek quant, what certain types of physicists do when firing up the LHC. as this is a gardening group i much prefer to give peas a chance. Groan! oh, and is chimp change banana peels? i give those to the worms and they are happy. Worms like coffee grounds I've found. I wonder if the wait to eat them until morning........... |
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Farm1 wrote:
songbird wrote: .... as this is a gardening group i much prefer to give peas a chance. Groan! hee! oh, and is chimp change banana peels? i give those to the worms and they are happy. Worms like coffee grounds I've found. I wonder if the wait to eat them until morning........... they do the jitter bug all night. songbird |
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Ever used a pecan vibrator/update
Went to a friend of mine's house today, and he has a lot of pecans on the
ground, and two trees FULL. My last test of the shaker did not work too well, as I put the vibrator in line with a chain, and exerted a sideways force. My new plan is to simply make a hook out of 1/2" cold rolled steel, and a 1/2" electrical conduit 10' pole. It will be raised up into the tree, and hooked over a branch of no more than 4". A lot of long branches are in the 2-3" variety, and I am fairly confident that the vibration will cause them to fall. The vibrator device is right at 30#, and I have a hook under it that I can hang a pail of 35# of water. So, I think it will be raining pecans. I brought back two bags of pecans in shucks. I ran them through my vacuum, and the outer shucks were removed from most. I then made an angle iron piece that the shells will run into at full velocity, and hopefully be the right force to knock off the four part hull. I have a couple ideas of cracking that I'm going to work on as the next step. That is where you get the real money, in the pecan halves. I have some pretty good ideas where separators, classifiers, crackers, and sorters can be made out of simple screen sizes, and yard sales vibrator sanders and car polishers. Plus a couple of vacuums or blowers here and there to clean out the last of the waste at one part of the process. This is fun stuff to work with, and thinking up the ideas to solve the problems is fun, too. I think I'll make a lot of it out of metal, as that is what I have and know. Will take some youtube videos when I go shake the trees and pick up the pecans with a vacuum. Then some on the shelling/cracking/sorting part. Steve |
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Ever used a pecan vibrator
"Rick" wrote You may have already seen this site or similar. Yhey sell used equipment. You might get some ideas just from looking at what they have. Site did not come through here, Rick. Steve |
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