fanning mills, using and setting up

pretty neat looking, I’ve never seen one quite like that before. I’m also in a situation of bringing a seed cleaner back to life so I thought that this would be a good thread to ask this question on. Everything on mine works fine with a little tuning, but the previous owner didn’t have any screens that went with it so I’ll be building them. What I don’t know is what size screens to use for different seeds. I’ll be using it for wheat and buchwheat this year and hopefully for oats, sorghum, clover maybe some forage grasses. Thanks for the help, I’m having trouble finding much information.

They’re tearing down an old elevator nearby and with the siding off you can see one or two old seed cleaners – huge ones. Like 6′ H x 6’W and 8 ‘L. Wish I had space for that thing as I have a friend who has one in the family’s elevator and it is really neat to see in action. As the screens are shaking, brushes sweep back and forth across the screen surface to keep thngs moving. The culls and weed seeds shunt off a side chute that you can also bag if you’re so inclined. Think it might be a Clipper brand.

Pennstpitt – the screens my friend has are pretty big (4’x5′ ?) but the holes vary quite a bit. One had trianglular holes punched in it. I’m sure I saw a page on the web that listed screen types/sizes for various crops – all the way up to bean size. Might take a while but I’ll see if I can locate it again.