| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| bodger |
Hand powered grain grinder.I know it a slim chance but if anyone has one of these or hears of one wanting a new home, then please keep me in mind.I'd be willing to pay a good price and would use it to turn whole grain into chicken and animal feed. Thanks. |
||
| bodger |
I've just done a quick Google and come up with this link. How ingenious?
http://www.vedicorganics.org.uk/grinder.shtml Not quite what I had in mind but you've got to admire them. 
|
||
| sean |
Ingenious, but he's wearing socks with sandals. | ||
| bodger |
The picture was two years old, he might have matured a little now. 
|
||
| alandbailey |
Why not? The romans did. 
|
||
| Bodrighy |
Did the romans have socks? pete |
||
| alandbailey |
Apparently so. I saw something on tv some months ago that a fossilised sock had been unearthed with a roman sandal - after seeing that, I wear socks with sandals, keeps my feet cleaner and hides my toenail fungus infection.
|
||
| Bodrighy |
Too much information Alan. You were doing fine up to the hyphen
Pete |
||
| sean |
Maybe the absence of effective systemic anti-fungal medication caused the decline and fall of the roman empire. Probably played havoc with their marching. | ||
| Bodrighy |
|
||
| bodger |
Do you think that Nero was actually picking his feet as Rome was burning ? 
|
||
| Woodburner |
Apologies for dragging this topic back on track  , or perhaps dragging it off in a different direction  , but I have used both a hand cranked grinder and a (rotary) quernstone, and the hand cranked thing was not a patch on the quernstone. Finding a quernstone could be even harder than finding a hand grinder though! MIL's went walkabout years ago  and they were getting rare even then.
|
||
| Slim |
What's a quernstone?
I've helped link up stationary bikes to grinders before. It's fun, and works quite well - particularly if the bike has a heavy flywheel built in, which many of the older ones do. |
||
| gil |
small millstone, in pairs [off to find pic]
|
||
| bodger |
Thanks folks. I'm not really looking to grind flour, but to turn whole grain into a roughish meal. | ||
| RichardW |
Harmmer mill? |