>>2862028i agree, its not practical. but that wasnt the question i was answering.
>Theoretical farmers are a fucking joke.worked in ag for a while, operating equipment sometimes, water cannon, bagger, bi directional auger, dummy stuff. i wasnt allowed to run the seeder or the sprayer
i ran a seed cleaning plant for a while too, and worked in a canola crushing plant making animal feed from heated canola
i also was an avid gardener, and i tried the self sufficiency thing for more than a decade
>At the height of harvest ive spent 14 hours in just one day picking and canning green beans from just a 500 sq/ft plotnot a fan of canning myself, all that work for mushy vegetables. i liked freezing, a lot quicker. i fermented some too, never green beans though, mostly just pickles and green tomatoes
>How long is it going to take to thresh that 120 pounds of wheat?i had a large watering tub and i just shuffled my feet over the whole plant, and hand winnowed the seeds. using that method it would probably take a day
i didnt do it in large quantities though, wheat was five dollars a bushel at the time. it was just curiosity, and for seed saving
but there is small scale threshing equipment, if you wanted to waste your time, and ive seen small fanning mills at farm auctions for under a hundred bucks
>You have a flour mill?no, i bought flour
>Youre going to thresh and then press the sunflower seeds for oil?no, i wouldnt do that. but you can buy a hand expeller for 100, an electric one for a few hundred
>Youre going to boil down those beets for sugar?this is something i have actuall tried, peel the beets, cube them, bring the water to a simmer, drain it, do it again. easy
took forever to boil down though
the result was a a rosey red syrup that had a mineral taste. it reminded me of fancy mollases
>How do you prevent loss to birds in the sunflower field?you cut the stalk at an angle, but leave it standing, then you turn the flower upside down and stab it onto the stalk
