Got a nice day today (threatening to rain) and decided to take advantage of the oportunity and fill the storage drums with nut shells.
The processing plant will be finishing up the crop from the fall very soon so timing was important.
Got about 2500# this run which makes a very small pile in the truck.
I filled everything that was empty so I can get through the final part of this season and be ready for fall.
One piccy shows the scoop and the screened bottom bucket that I strain the shells through.
Very common to find sticks of varying sizes in the material. These little devils can jam an auger.
"ASK ME HOW I KNOW THIS" :ahhh: 20 years ago, I had a stick jam the feed system on a Earth stove we had and break the coupler.
I was 2 am on a Sunday morning too, and a cold one at that.
Here are some piccy's of todays little Shell piggy expedition.
These are the good ones that are fairly coarse as far as size goes.
The stuff I got back in December was from a different supplier and is much finer.
The larger material burns far better in the stoves with less fly ash
Snowy
The processing plant will be finishing up the crop from the fall very soon so timing was important.
Got about 2500# this run which makes a very small pile in the truck.
I filled everything that was empty so I can get through the final part of this season and be ready for fall.
One piccy shows the scoop and the screened bottom bucket that I strain the shells through.
Very common to find sticks of varying sizes in the material. These little devils can jam an auger.
"ASK ME HOW I KNOW THIS" :ahhh: 20 years ago, I had a stick jam the feed system on a Earth stove we had and break the coupler.
I was 2 am on a Sunday morning too, and a cold one at that.
Here are some piccy's of todays little Shell piggy expedition.
These are the good ones that are fairly coarse as far as size goes.
The stuff I got back in December was from a different supplier and is much finer.
The larger material burns far better in the stoves with less fly ash
Snowy