Thinking of buying a Pea Sheller?

[thebayougardener]

There's a new dealer in town, me.  I'll soon be setup to sell the Taylor Manufacturing's "Little Sheller".  So if you're thinking of buying a Pea Sheller give me a few days to setup.  Made in the good old USA.  This is a quality unit that will exceed your expectations.

$399 + $39 shipping anywhere in the continental US.  Usually ships within 10 days.   

Video:    http://www.thebayougardener.com/videos/videos-2011/11-07-little-sheller.wmv

Donald

[Cubman]

WOW....YES....DANG RIGHT....OH BOY....!!!

can ya tell I'm excited...? 

VERY NICE D...!!!

[Lurch]

Donald

In all the demo's I've watched I have never seen anyone shelling English peas.

[thebayougardener]

All I've shelled with it so far are the purple hull and as you can see it'll eat em up faster than you can feed them in there.  Terry Taylor told me that it can shell a bushel of peas in 7 minutes.  I'm not that fast, I usually just take my time with it.  Hopefully, this year I'll try some lima and Lincoln Peas through it.  There will probably be a video.  

Those peas were picked and shelled the same morning, Taylor advises that if you let the peas dry out for a day they'll shell even better.

Donald

[Mr Daniel]

That's quite a machine Donald.  Is that economy model  a pup, or was that an old clip?  When I was growin up we had an Airdale
terrier that was an economy grape harvester,  you brought back some good memories there.

[north country farmer]

don can you shell lima beans with it?

[thebayougardener]

Daniel ... that was part of a video I shot last year.

NCF ... I don't know yet, my limas failed last year so I didn't get to try.

Donald

[1sarge]

I have shelled limas with my Taylor. It did okay, but the beans have to be just at the right stage when you pick them. Was a lot better than hand shelling, might mash a few but not bad.

[ma]

Do I see Donald  Inc. coming?   Had mine for 3 years and no more purple fingers. I highly recommend it. Hope you sell many of them Donald.

mike

[GWDawg1]

I have this sheller and highly recommend it.  Donald's video is spot on, pay particular attention to the feeding technique. 

[bee crazy]

pretty cool Donald, but what I was wondering is what is that machine you were using in your transplanting onion video. You were standing up and it was a square tube, never seen such a thing in my days and believe me,  I have toys. 

[mhpgardener]

That economical version at the end is kinda slow. A lot like me picking strawberries.....pick one, eat 2...pick one ..eat 3...

Looks like I'll be calling Twilleys Monday morning and ordering a few pounds, or 10    ...of those TP PE's to go with my regular PE's. I probably should plant me some Alaska's too, if it don't rain too much this week.

I'm gonna check with Santa Claus and see if I can get an advance on my Christmas present ! 

Bobby

[bigwad1]

Would be interesting to see how the Taylor sheller does with the green sweet pea.
I'm assuming it would tend to smash the soft peas rather then shelling them.
Has anyone tried to use the Sheller for the sweet peas?

[thebayougardener]

Bee Crazy ... That is what's called a Hatfield Transplanter.  I use it to transplant onions and plant seedlings in 2 1/4 inch peat pots.  The one in the video is the 2.5 inch model.  Johnny's Select Seeds has them.

Donald

[AlaRedNeck]

Donald,
           they ought to be paying you a commission on them Hatfields. When I saw you using that one while planting your onions; if they'd a been one of those electronic signs sitting next to you, SOLD! would've flashed up on the screen. I planted 19 bunches ( 900-1100 sets ) from Dixondale, in about 2 1/2 hrs, with a neighbor dropping them in for me. Haven't regretted buying it yet. Got 500 sweet potato slips coming from taterman in late April that I plan on using the transplanter on, too. The only problem I had with the onion sets was that they were a little small for the 2 1/2" model--the littlist onions had a tendancy to lay over on their side, instead of staying upright. Nothing wrong with the transplanter, just me using the wrong sized one. Since I can't justify buying all three sizes, I'm working on a pvc pipe insert to handle this the next time it comes up. The pipe insert will work, just got to tweek it a bit.

Thank you for all that you do.

Danny

[thebayougardener]

AlaRedNeck ... The PVC insert is a great idea, you've just saved people some money.  Buy the 2.5 inch model and use the PVC to turn it in to a 1.5 inch.  Could also use it to transplant plugs, outstanding.

Donald 

[donjrhatcher]

Any pic of PVC insert?

[AlaRedNeck]

No pics yet. My wife is the bed with her back out, so I have to hang close by. I will attempt to get some pics this evening, but it will most likely be tomorrow. I know pics will explain it better, but here's a quick idea of what I did. Started with a piece of 1 1/4" pvc (just happened to have that size).I cut a piece that was long enough so that, when setting inside tube with the transplanter in the "ready to be put into the ground" postion, it stuck up above the top of the tube of the transplanter about 4 or 5". I then cut an angle in the bottom end that sorta matched that of the "door" in the bottom when it's in the closed ( ready to plant ) position. That will take about 1 to 2" off the total length. Then, with the pipe pushed into one of the corners of the tube, I took 2 or 3 pieces of foam pipe insulation and kinda worked it in along side the pvc, to hold it in place. It worked real good. The only reason I stopped using it was because the onions, being curled somewhat, had a tendancy to hang up in the pipe, and my helper didn't get the hang of pre-straightening the sets. I did that to some, and it worked better. I had to hurry and get them planted before it rained, or I would have fooled with it more. Different size pipe could be used, depending on what was being planted. I will say, the extra weight was hardly noticed---I used sch. 40, so something lighter might be even better. I'm also trying to come up with a funnel-shaped end for the top, maybe a cut-down oil funnel that matches the pipe diameter, so that the person dropping the sets doesn't have a hard time trying to center the smaller pipe each time. 

Danny

[pawper]

how do you think it will do with butterbeans and butterpeas donald?

[bee crazy]

than ks for the info Donald and the pvc insert is a super idea.

Looks like  a birthday present coming up. lol
pawper, I use a 3/4 inch pvc conduit piece about 5 ft long to plant seeds like beans and corn, helps  to tape a funnel on the drop in. I have a planter but it skips so bad.

[thebayougardener]

Pawper ... I've only had experience with purple hull (which works great) so I really don't know about anything else.  I don't want to steer anybody wrong, maybe someone who has tried em can help here.

Donald

   

[bkwoods]

Donald that is a must have. Will it shell butter beans and limas?

[bkwoods]

Donald that is a must have. Will it shell butter beans and limas

[thebayougardener]

bkwoods ... All I've shelled with it so far are the purple hull peas. Hopefully, this year I'll try some lima and Lincoln Peas through it.  There will probably be a video.  


Ouote from 1sarge:

"I have shelled limas with my Taylor. It did okay, but the beans have to be just at the right stage when you pick them. Was a lot better than hand shelling, might mash a few but not bad."

[bigwad1]

Looking foreward to the Lincoln pea video.
Love to eat, we just don't like to shell them by hand.........