[Gristmillers] My Seed Cleaner

[Stacey Freeman]

Faber,

The cleaning process for the wheat before it goes into a flour mill using a
roller mill is different from cleaning corn for a stone grits mill.  Seed
cleaners are designed primarily for seed, but do clean larger grain fairly
well for stone grinding...we clean all of our corn on a "seed Cleaner" at a
slower rate.

Before wheat goes into a roller mill, it is cleaned of the outside "husk"
and then for the lack of a better work the shard, dark tip is knocked off so
that they will not clog the silks in the bolter of the flour mill.  You can
see the wheat cleaning process of our mill at
http://www.freemansmill.com/tour/ .  For "Whole Wheat Flour" the cleaning
process does not have to be as extensive, but for a fine, white flour
(Bleached is another story), more extensive cleaning is needed.

Hope this helps!
Stacey Freeman
Freeman's Mill

-----Original Message-----
From: gristmillers-bounces at gristmillers.com
[mailto:gristmillers-bounces at gristmillers.com] On Behalf Of Faber McMullen
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 2:22 PM
To: gristmillers at gristmillers.com
Subject: Re: [Gristmillers] My Seed Cleaner

I think what I have is a "fanning mill".

Faber

On Jun 2, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Jeff Smith wrote:

>
> I am trying to visualize what you are saying, but it sounds like you 
> need a fanning mill.
>
> Jeff Smith
>
> --- On Tue, 6/2/09, Faber McMullen <faber at mssblue.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Faber McMullen <faber at mssblue.net>
>> Subject: [Gristmillers] My Seed Cleaner
>> To: gristmillers at gristmillers.com
>> Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 9:52 AM
>> Hey Fellows:
>>
>> Just thought I'd give you a little update.  Yes, John Baily, I will 
>> probably want to come back to Baton Rouge to assemble the mill, set 
>> the bed stone, etc.  Lou wants to do it here, but if we came that way 
>> maybe a few other folks could watch.  Lou and I could come pulling my 
>> camper.
>>
>> I am harvesting and cleaning wheat.  I am using my M2B reconditioned 
>> seed cleaner to clean the wheat.  This may sound nutty, but I'm 
>> wondering if even after running wheat through the cleaner it will 
>> have a considerable amount of dust in/on it.  I haven't ever used it 
>> until today so I'm just not sure.  It seems like it doesn't get "mill 
>> clean"
>> until I've run it through the machine 2-3 times.  is that normal?
>>
>> I will grind it with my small Meadows 8" stone table top mill for 
>> this year.  I am also starting to supply a small Mormon community 
>> that have found us Brethren folks.
>> Many of them have their own tiny grist mills so that will take the 
>> pressure off of me until I get "big bertha" up and going.  Another 
>> trip to B.R., Louisiana will get it working.
>>
>> Send any info you guys have on experience in cleaning grain, Faber
>>
>>
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