Look what I got

[jon f mn]

Picked this up today.

All complete with several screens and in working order. Now I'll be busy screening oats the weekend.

 

[Bruce from Can.]

Fanning mill

 

[used red MN]

Looks like a nice one. I am not sure what was so special about the soybeans we raised on the farm in KS back in my younger days ..late 60s early 70s.. but I sure am familiar with using one of those machines as well as a scoop shovel to clean a bunch of them to sell for seed. Then we would bag them up in paper Moormans Feed hog supplement sacks. Here is a funny story. One of our customers was known as a tight wad. We just would fill the sacks to a certain approximated level so we could crunch it together and twist it then, tie it with bail wire. The customer knowing we did not weigh every bag said he would feel better if when he got home he would weigh the bags and then pay for the exact weight of seed he was getting. Of course he was hoping to pay less because he thought the bags had less in them then what we said. Ended up he was as honest and well as frugal. He came back and ended up paying for almost 1 complete extra bag of seed then he would have if he would have just taken our word for it. Call it a little slanderous, but of course the story was shared with many of our other seed customers.

 

[number 9]

That looks in great shape! A long time ago, we had a Clipper but I dont remember the model #. Back then, we used bin run soybean seed and cleaned our own. We werent set up to be very automated and I remember a fair amount of time behind an aluminum scoop shovel. I still can remember the sounds of it.

 

[matthies]

As a kid I thought is was a waste of time. We shoveled out of the mill into a stock tank then filled feed sacks with the beans, it might of got rid of some pods and weed seeds, but I think we made just as many cracked/half beans if we left them alone. On Grandma's sale I looked in the building where we kept the beans and it was just storage for aunt and uncle, but Dad's brother forgot about 50 bushels of oats in the second story, by this time bugs had them ground to nothing.

 

[SVcummins]

Guy I worked for had one I wish now Id have tried to get it . It wasnt very fast but it did a nice job

 

[Olliejunkie]

Nice find!

 

[caterpillar guy]

We have on set up with leg to fill bin over mill and then dumps into other leg, to bin cleaned grain whether seed or for sale grain. I've milled beans and still had some dockage at the elevator. a lot of weed seed was milled out. We used it more for clover seed and timothy seed when I was a small kid in the 60's and early 70's than we do now.

 

[P I Pete]

I had a M2b, it is the same basic machine but is all steel sold it last spring to a fella up in the direction that Jon lives. I had put an auger bagger on it I had used it to clean corn for corn stoves.

Pete

 

[MSD]

Tended to one off those when I was a teenager. Dad cleaned and sold a lot of seed grain and us kids ran the thing. Hated the dust it made.

 

[Richard G.]

Got one here on the farm that our son uses.
I made him a double sack holder with a diverter valve to hang sacks on and an auger brings the clean seed up from the bottom to the sack holder I made.
Richard in NW SC

 

[Super H Mike]

I tried to buy a really nice fanning mill off an elderly farmer friend, he obviously hadn't used it in forever and had no intention of using it anymore. He told me he just couldn't sell it because it was a wedding present to him from his wife, now deceased. What a different time it was then, he is now gone too sadly. I hope the mill is somewhere it is being used or appreciated and better yet if who has it knew that story.

 

[tomstractorsandtoys]

I have the one my great grandfather bought new. My dad remembered when it was still hand crank. They cleaned lots of clover seed with it. I have done oats,wheat and barley with it. Tom

 

[TimWafer]

Looks good! Here's mine I use every year.

https://youtu.be/ZUE2IiBtKrw

 

[Paul from MI]

Cleaned lots of soybeans for seed with one of those, before Round-up.

 

[Wheat47]

I picked up a small David Bradley fanning mill a while back.
Very nice and clean, bright paint and bout 10 screens to go with it.
Need to get it set up for a demo someday.