burr mill


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burr mill

[′bər ‚mil]
(food engineering)
A mill for grinding crops, in which two ribbed plates or disks rub or crush the material between them.
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The GrainMaker, manufactured by Bitterroot Tool & Machine of Montana, is another burr mill.
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On the other hand, they're inexpensive compared with burr mills.
Delicious, homemade whole-grain flours: invite new flavors, textures and nutrients into your baking adventures by picking out a home mill and grinding a range of grains into super-fresh flours
Rural Zimbabwe's peanut butter groups that adopted the manual Omega increased the amount of peanuts processed each day from four kilograms via traditional methods to around 50 kilograms of peanuts per day with the manually operated burr mill.
A different option to overcome cranking difficulty would have been to shift from a horizontal axis to a vertical axis grinder akin to many of the original wind power grist mills in Europe and many modern burr mills.
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Country Living and GrainMaker are two examples of hand-cranked burr mills.
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When the run is complete, the clean grain is ready for the burr mill.
Threshing with horses: treadmill, powers once drove harvest operation
Left: This 2-hp 1912 Reeves stationary gasoline engine provides belt power for Fred Nason's stone burr mill.
Below: Fred's David Bradley stone burr mill grinds corn for spectators at Farm Days in New Hampshire last August.
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Hit-and-miss engines are used to operate various implements, such as burr mills and pump jacks (even ice cream freezers
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Cattle stanchions, seed corn graders and burr mills.
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Second, because all his engines actually run, he likes to have them working at shows, hooked up to pump jacks or burr mills or corn shellers.
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