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Designs | |
Food dryer: Farm-scale food dehydrator. (143 kb, 11/1998 updated 11/2009) | |
Food
dryer: Solar tunnel food dryer.
DIY*: plans for a solar tunnel food dryer, a modified
Hohenheim design, optimized using the
Penman-Monteith
evapotranspiration equation. Solar radiation is the primary
contributor
to evapotranspiration, hence the solar dryer maximizes the
exposure of products to sunlight with unobstructed air flow to remove water
vapor (it does not maximize temperature inside the dryer). (383 kb,3/2008, revised 11/2009) |
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Garlic:
Hand
operated garlic trimmer. (58 kb, 8/1999) |
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Grain huller: Grain huller for rice, spelt wheat, quinoa and millet. DIY: plans for converting a hand mill to a grain huller (71 kb, 8/1989) | |
Grain huller: Centrifugal huller for sunflower and naked barley seeds. DIY: convert a kitchen sink garbage disposer into a grain huller (120 kb, 1/2010) | |
Grain thresher: Conversion of a leaf shredder/wood chipper to a grain thresher. DIY: plans for a grain thresher suitable for amaranth, bean,oat, rice, wheat etc.(180 kb, 8/1994 updated 11/2009) | |
Grain thresher: DIY Make a corn (maize) sheller/thresher using a leaf shredder. Plans for modifying a leaf shredder into a corn sheller/thresher to reduce kernel damage during shelling (373 kb, 5/2020) | |
Insulation: Skylight insulation: 3 ways to increase the insulation of home skylights (73 kb, 6/2005) | |
Pests: Enhanced electronic black light bug zapper. (77 kb, 11/2000, updated 11/2009) | |
Pests: Mouse guard: a non climb barriers against mice. Revisions: added photos of locations where mice breach metal building (130 kb, 3/2007b, updated 5/2020) revised | |
Pests: Protecting trees from nutria (54 kb, 6/2005) | |
Seed cleaner: Hand operated screen seed cleaner. DIY: plans for a shaker screen seed cleaner. Machine is easy to clean, between change of seed type or seed lot (130 kb, 3/2014) | |
Seed cleaner: Farm scale electric winnower: DIY: seed cleaner using air to separate seeds from chaff (142kb,12/2005) | |
Seed cleaner: Hand operated winnower, added a larger version (438 kb, 2/1986, updated 4/2016) | |
Seed cleaner: Small electric winnower (66kb, 2/1986) | |
Seed storage: Hand operated vacuum packing system for seed storage (15 kb, 11/1989) | |
Weed control: Flex tine cultivator conversion: DIY: convert a spike tooth harrow to a tine cultivator (233 kb, 1/2007) | |
Weed control: Propane flame weed burners (163 kb, 2/1997, updated 11/2009) | |
Weed control: DIY Make a narrow strip rotary hoe cultivator (412 kb, 6/2020) | |
Weed control: Serrated hand hoe and mower blades (62 kb, 8/1991) | |
Weed control: Weeding spade (47 kb, 2/1996) | |
Weed control: DIY Make your own weeding hoe (using scrap steel with high carbon content) (555kb, 3/2022) recent addition | |
Oregon Farm (USA) | |
Bean: Growing organic black beans in Veneta, Oregon: (western Oregon, 17 miles west of Eugene) Planting dates, fertilizer, weed cultivations, harvest and post harvest (295 kb, 10/2009b) | |
Canada thistle: Canada thistle control with mechanical cultivation using sweeps (618 kb, 1/2018, revised 12/2020) revised | |
Dry farming: Vegetable and field crop rooting depths and lateral root distances: data compiled from JE Weaver and WE Bruner, 1927. Root Development of Vegetable Crops. McGraw-Hill Book Co. and from JE Weaver, 1926. Development of Field Crops . Revisions: added root drawings from Weaver and Bruner; estimate crop root surface area at 56 days after planting; and arrange crops according to root growth rate, crops with fast root growth rate are better suited for dry farming (290 kb, 6/2016, revised 1/2021) revised | |
Cool storage room/walk-in cooler: How to modify a window air conditioner to cool a storage room below 60F (16C) (474 kb, 1/2022) recent addition | |
* DIY: "Do it yourself", make your own equipment | |
Something else | |
Koans, part 1: selections mostly from The Gateless Gate, book of 48 koans collected by Mumon (1183-1260). Comments on selected koans by student t (218 kb, 1/2019, revised 3/2023) | |
Koans, part 2: selections from The Blue Cliff Record, book of 100 koans collected by Yuan-wu (1063-1135). Coments on selected koans by student t (431 kb, 4/2019, revised 3/2023) | |
Koans, part 3: selections from The Book of Equanimity (also called Book of Serenity and Shoyoroku), book of 100 koans collected by Wanshi Shogaku (1091-1157). Coments on selected koans by student t (441 kb, 4/2020, revised 3/2023) | |
Koans, part 4, selections from The True Dharma Eye, book of 300 koans collected by Zen master Dogen (1200-1253). Comments on selected koans by student t (576 kb, 4/2023) |