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Chicken Tractor
Parked next to its big brother, the permanent chicken coop.
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Uploaded on Sep 11, 2011
Detail of Roof Assembly
Sun-Tuf polycarbonate panels screwed to 2x2 cross-members, attached to 2x2 "rafters". At...
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Uploaded on Sep 11, 2011
Chicken Tractor
Chicken Tractor Completed
I added the roof assembly at last. Revised plans call for adding some wheels on one end, but the original plan is now complete.
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Uploaded on Sep 11, 2011
Leftover husks
I reserved these because there are still some seeds in there. My first threshing attempt was good,...
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Uploaded on Jul 31, 2011
The Sheaf
The bundle of rye stalks and seedheads I gathered. It has been drying on our front porch, at the end...
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Uploaded on Jul 31, 2011
Threashing machine
My 'Extreme Appropriate Technology' threshing device, a.k.a. a pillowcase. Seedheads go in, end gets...
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Uploaded on Jul 31, 2011
Final Product
My first batch of harvested rye. The contents of the pillowcase/thresher is dumped into these...
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Uploaded on Jul 31, 2011
Sample basket of seed heads
Four Lines of Seed
Each seed head has four rows of seeds, arranged in two pair of parallel rows. (Yeah, OK, so it's...
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Uploaded on Jul 16, 2011
Green
This head is still pretty green. Others have started to dry out.
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Uploaded on Jul 16, 2011
First Sample of Rye
This is the product of just a couple of seed heads I cut yesterday from my front yard rye patch....
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Uploaded on Jul 15, 2011
Close-up of fresh rye grains
Chicken Tractor in Progress
Tall plywood panel is a door. A roosting branch will go in the open area to the left, which is why I...
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Uploaded on Jun 28, 2011
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