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In this page i will put the seeds through the machine
and we will see how much seed we have saved.
First i turn the machine on then pour the seeds straight
into the funnel, they will then fall through the machine, as they
do this a fan will blow the husks and any light rubbish into the
dust bag that you can see on the left lower side of the machine.
Because there's alot of husk in this mixture i ran the seeds through
a couple of times.
Because of excessive husk i had to empty the dust bag
a couple of times with this experiment, when the bag gets full
the machine will start to blow the husk into the seed tub at the
bottom and into the air because it has no where else to go so
this is normal.
and so what was i left with >
And there it is nice clean seed there is a couple of
small bits of pooh in the mix which i handpicked most of that
out but my birds didn't even bother with that considering the
fact that they pooh in the seed and water anyway and also lay
in the food pots, they know what they are eating anyway. besides
this is an experiment but saying that its now regular practice
for me being on a budget
so what was the result >>
Well the seed i saved was taken to my kitchen to be weighed,
because my scales are limited in the weight they can take, i had
to separate my seed into 2 tubs.
Above i put my seed into 2 tubs and weighed them separately.
And overall my figures was 1.825 kg / 4 Ibs for the first
tub
And 1.338 kg / 2 Ibs 15 oz for the second tub
and in total that's a seed saving of 3.163kg or 6Ibs
15oz and to me that's amazing
that's what i saved in one week......... 25 kg's divide
by 3 kg's (that's rounded down for ease)
equals just over 8 . so in summary I've saved a 25 kg
sack of seed in 8 weeks costing about £15.00 ( jollyes.co.uk)
52 weeks a year divided by 8 equals 6.5
6.5x £15.00 equals £97.50
In one year with my sized aviary that's a saving of just
under £100 WOW!!
If your interested in the mk2 machine contact
me i currently build 1-2 a week
price £79.00 for the mk2 cleaner, i dont make the
mk1 anymore.
here below is a photo of me cleaning my seed pots on
a daily or sometimes every other day basis it stops me going dizzy
and running out of breath
in summary>Overall the machine worked very well indeed i did
find with excessive husks that there is a little mess but only
very minimal, But in normal use its absolutley fantastic.
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