DIY pellet mill
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2015
- This is my pellet mill that I build , hope you guys can improve on the design , I made this video because I could not find a video on UA-cam that shows how the DIY thing works, only videos of pictures
hope this helps
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Hi Phillip. Very nicely explained demonstration. So often people put things on you tube but keep the important things a secret. Well done for the a to z explanation. Nice to see a good old South African boer seun on you tube.
thank you for the kind comment and thanks for watching
I love how u said it at the beginning, "I don't have money to buy one but will build ur own " so that set me for a challenge I will send u mine once done
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Good build. I used to operate a pellet mill making chicken feed. They were California Pellet Mills with rotary dies. I've always wanted to build a pellet mill at home with a rotary die myself. You did well, same principles involved.
Awesome build. Thanks for sharing!
What a good idea and execution. I’ve wondered how to build a machine to make pellets from the sawdust generated in my work shop.
Thank you so much for the video. I was trying to make this much harder than it has to be.
Great job. Thanks.
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As an engineer, I can tell you, we use quite a bit of different methods to fabricate pellets, mostly mineral ones, but the idea is the same. It´s awesome how your built does exactly what you want. This must be great to feed rabbits. Thanks for taking the time to share and upload. And the recipe of your mixture is a plus that deserves a ton of likes!! thanks again.
I am looking to fabricate pellets where the pellets don't break easily. Could you advice on the machine?
Solid design! Thanks for helping me understand this kind of machine!
Meat grinder disks are readily available in any size. I am sure you can double them up for a thicker height. Thank you for the instruction. Exactly what I needed.
Brilliant idea 💡 thanks so much
Nice job thanks for showing.
Lots of folks will tell you what you should have done.
It's great to see what you Have done it will inspire many !
thank you but it is good if folks tell what you have should have done i do take the info to heart and build a better one thanks for your comment and thank you for watching my video
+Phillip Fourie hi did u ever make a new mill
great comment
Nice video.. 👌. Could you please tell me the thickness of the plate you used as die?
Youre a one man army. The right hand is the camera guy. The left hand is the actor.
Well done fella! Congratulations
Thanks a lot for your video, people love you man...great vid
yea...but the machine have to be improved
I love how the _exact moment_ you say "I've gotta getta tripod" there is actually a tripod _right there_ in the background. LOL!
but it is for the brick layer lazer , it wont fit on my camera , thanks for whatching the video in detail lol!
i got one now for the camera and internet very very costly internet
Aye: noticed that too...and then thought 'there must be a really good reason why he isn't using it'. Thread is the wrong standard - there are so many standards.
really great idea
Great work... thanks for explaining.
mooi man .
Thanks you helped me alot now i can do pallets from different woods . i can't buy in cape town pellets for my smoker .
thanks again for your hard work .
thank you for watching
Good subject. good demo. Thank you showing your machine working.
thank you sir and thanks for watching
Well done Phillip. That is a really neat machine you built there. Very well explained.
+Hennie van der Merwe Thanks Hennie hope it helps some guys
I like this - very well thought through Phillip - nicely done
+Frans Badenhorst Thank you Franse and thanks for the comment
Love the video boet, much simpler than what I thought it would be. I think I might attempt it myself as well, but just use a thicker plate for longer pellet (and have it machined). Thanks for sharing!
you made a very good observation that was my problem i needed a thicker plate
Baie goeie video. Sal defnitief jou idee gebruik. Dankie Phillip.
Very nice. Between the video and the comments this will be a great start to make my own. Very well done for 1st attempt. ✌️🤟
Cuánto le agradezco su invento,es genial y con su explicación ya logré entender cómo prepararme uno para mis necesidades del campo agricola...
very well done. thanks for all the info. with this video anyone could build one.
+bos dad thank you and thanks for watching , I posted this video to show people that it can be build and it would help them to build their own so thank you again
I think that if you drill a flare on the top of all the holes in the plate the pellets will be more compressed. Also once the plate gets hot from production, the pellets will stick together better.
love the ambiton for creating out of necessity. love the haywire. you cant have a fine tuned machine without some haywire involved 😝👍
I’ve been trying to find one on Amazon but all I’m finding is feed mills thanks for the help
bravo, excellent, super fantastic work
Thanks for a great video!
Thanks for watching
Starch is usually added as a binder. Make sure all the holes have a slight taper. You won’t get good pellets until it gets up to temp.
Very nice bro.
Awesome 👍
Thank you! Very helpful!
thank you for watching
cool video phillip .got no money to buy pellet press but i can sure build one. thanks man .good job .
+Lorna Nichol hey Lorna i am in the same boat as you thats why i build it , some people dont have the funds to go buy what ever they need , we have to make do what we have and our skills , peace thanks for watching ! and good luck
Thank you so much for sharing this video
Very good presentation- helped me a lot!
thank you for whatching , but i think i can do alot better hope it helped you some way good luck God bless
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Hi there, thank you so much for this information this is very helpful.
Thank you for Watching and your kind comments
Dear sir. You are defnetly a nice person. Thank you for sharing your work. Do you think is it possible to build up a bigger machine to make pellets of olive pomace?
Mate, I know this video is quite old and you probably have figured this one out already but maybe for someone watching your video:
To increase the strength of the pellet use a thicker top plate and drill slightly tapered holes. This easy and minor modification will make a longer and more durable pellet. All in all a great mill you put together in here.
If your pelleting feed, injecting steam in the mash feed and let it be absorbed for a couple of seconds will give you a pellet that is not as dry and should carmelize the corn resulting in a pellet that has elasticity until it drys. We ran the pellets through a cooler which essentially was a perforated conveyor with air blowing through the trays.
I love the video
Thanks so much
Pretty neat
Thanks
Great video! I'm doing a project similar to this and I wanted to see if you did wend up creating a 2nd version with the input from all the comments? If so, what did you end up changing?
Awesome job guy
+Virginia Eichholz hey man thank you and thanks for watching
Thanks. It's really helpful video. Good work thanks for sharing
yea..correct
Ha! You're a genius!
I think larger grooves in your rollers would help also.
you need more holes in the press plate as theres alot of flat surface area the rollers will just squash the material to the plate not into it. also try having abit of a counter sink sort of edge on your holes at the top, this will alow more material to enter the hole and be more compact :)
+nathan boardman Wow you know your stuff i will try to build it like you said for my new pelletmill again thanks for watching
+nathan boardman 5 months late
You can also install a mechanical vibrator on the dropout chute ,so you don't have to use your hand
Awesome job. Some really smart engineers in the pelleting business and their machines also work. You may try adding a little wheat flour to get better quality pellets. A little cooking oil will also help the pellets to form better. Before and after each run, use 1 kg of dry material and 100 ml oil to clean and lube the moving parts. You can reuse this cleaning material.
Very impressive, indeed. Especially with your first model. I'm going to try it after seeing this. I've wanted a pelletizer for a long time now. I think I'll try a gas engine with a flywheel.
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Nice one Philip i will try make my own one day thanks for info more power like it.
Thank you for watching and your time to comment, and for the complement
Very educational. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching and for your kind comments
Thanks for the idea !
good now go build one
I am. Currently scrounging for materials, which as you can agree...are somewhat hard to locate after all the scrapping that has been going on in recent years.
Thx for sharing!
Sir, nice job, very talented to make that!!! You said in video you didn’t have money enough to buy a mill so you did it yourself!!!! Your a very talented man!! Hard to believe that your so intelligent and not making a fortune! By now you probably have perfected your pellet mill small imperfections?? I’d pay you to make me one?? Any way good luck and I admire you for your ingenuity!!
great comment
nice attempt man thank you
thank you for watching
I couldn't place the accent until you said that it was draaibank in afrikaans. Stay safe out there.
Do you need the molasses. I thought the lignen in the plants made it bond togeather with the friction of the rollers
Very good l have learnt so much will try making one
please do thanks for watching
Just a suggestion, you may want to rig up some sort of steam source. A adjustable amount of steam would allow you to cook your pellets and it will help the mix bind giving you a harder pellet when they set up, instead of a crumbling one. But I'm sure your pellets there meet your needs. Great build thanks for putting this up.
Thanks for watching , the only problem for me with steam is i have solar panels , and dont have the KW to hookup i steam source
@@PhillipFourieZA for steam from solar: perhaps a parabolic collector from an old satellite dish or make a longitudinal one with central tube and reflective mylar? or a small pressure cooker pot on a small wood fire/rocket stove? But I suspect you can avoid using steam if your die is hot and your feed stock has a moisture contact you verify is proper for your material. You might consider a hot water coil around the die area to help heat the die if you need it (run a tiny pump off a contact wheel off your main pulley or with contact-type bicycle generator?) I think too hot for feed pellets and some nutrition is lost.
How thick is your die plate please? What kind of steel did you use? Have you ever run wood through it for fuel pellets? Was great to see your work, thank you for sharing it!
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This is awesome. Can make a video on how you did it
Thank you. Very so much.
Very informative video.Thanks for sharing. God bless you
Thank you
Nice 😀
Thank you
You need to increase the angle on the feed shoot so it doesn't clog.You also want to have replaceable plates on the surface of your rollers. Gearing it down to a lower speed and higher torque will also help.
Thanks, yes a agree lower RPM will be alot safer and more torque as you have stated I have received alot of advice in the comments, l have a new design that I want to try out
That's pretty cool working machine!
Can you make leaves into pellets?
Hi, I'm from Belgium.need some information please.How manny bearings did you us on the driving axle?? I supose one on the bottem plate??How do you do that??. Hope to get answer. THX
Hello, it's a wonderful machine; how thick is the perforated plate? Best regards.
This is good stuff man thank you very much (Dit is goeie dinge man dankie)
Baie dankie
Dankie Phillip, het self gedink om n masjien te koop maar soos j sê hulle is ma duur. Watse motor moet ek na kyk?
Thank you so much
Dankie vir die deel van die video!
This is excellent I work for a factory here in new zealand called nutrimix we do 1000kg=1tonne of mineral pellets a day we have a lot of issues with our pelletiser due to the consistency of formula mixture to dry so have be precise
Beejay Dixon
sir have doubt in thickness of top plate and rollers weight. motor capacity
Howdie ya make it Easy to build thank you for Sharing Your Ideas Will keep ya Posted on my Plan of your Design What Size is The Motor ya using is it 220 or 110 Amp
can you recommend to me any handbook that can help me design a coffee husk pelletizing machine?
How did you get your feed material chopped so finely? Have you tried un_chopped?
Baie goed gedoen Phillip
Baie dankie
Keep the trommel filled up with more material and you will get better pellets.
You want friction when the pellets are made so a little bit of heat will get in the hole plate.
This "friction heat " will bond the lignine in the fiber and help to get better pellets.
Also a smaller poelie on the electro motor will give you lower rpm but more torque ... and therefore more power 👍😀.
For reference, a commercial (Templewood) mill produced about 500 pounds/hour per motor horse power. dies were about 2" thick and holes tapered. hope this helps
Very nice job,budy. You need to ad some water in material,from 11-15% moisture.
this was 5years ago any other ideas since then ? Thks again for Sharing
Would that method work for wood smoking pellets for bbq smoking?
thanks good job
thank you and thanks for watching
Hi did u ever build a new mill would like some info to
Build one
Hi phillip
I have your advice about pallet mill
I actually made it and taking a 1st trail with wood saw and engine oil mixture and it doesn't work pallet doesn't come out can you please help me to correct them
Hi, can I use part of your video to my compilation homemade inventions and projects ?
MGszaman Vlog sure
Thank You
MGszaman Vlog my pleasure
video is ready Thank You
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nice
Thank you
lekker ding well done
dakie
Hallo Phillip, stuur ASB vir my die mates and sizes,Wil een probeer bou! Fotos,motor ratio en fanbelt pulley en plaat sizes sal Baie help? Great job 👏. Groete Gert.
Did you taper the holes on the die plate?
Hi Phillip ons bou ook nou n home made een. watter compression ratio het jy gekies of wat is plaat dikte en gate diameter.
dankie
Werner
Works for me ,, nessity the mother of invention
Buenos dias amigo que velocidad de trabajo tiene la maquina (rpm)
Could potentially use aluminium instead of steel as milling the holes would be easier and significantly cheaper, could even use a thin steel plate for support if you're worried about pressure cracking. As for steam you could heat a pressurised tank with the outlet going Into the lower compartment or upper. Could use a old fire extinguisher and modify the pipe to release the pressurised air. I've got a few sheep and just been looking up Mills to reduce cost on buying store pellets, think they're about 8mm x 20mm, what mix do you use and what's the difference in cost buying the raw materials? I think a bag of feed here in the UK is around £10 for 25kg. Cheers
Thank you Phillip.
I hope to improve on your work
Definitely hope it helps
Thumbs Up, nice try :]
What is the mechanical process that crushes sawdust and turns it into granules?
se puede hacer pellet de papel y cartón?
Works great after you clean out the holes
What about after the holes get clogged up ?
How long can you run it before clogging up again?
I just pour water on the mills and then it tends to loosen