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[quote]Originally posted by lquade
stillhope, they are small more like a bush, come in dwarf sizes. but it takes ALOT of beans to harvest. if you have a small lot might do better with other things or grow some of the teas? if your a tea drinker too. they are rather a pretty plant though... maybe a hedge?
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Tea hedge? Very interesting.I'll probably,should start another thread,but just a quick ?,please.
Jasmine tea -anyone grows?
Thank you for you time.
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Lquade,I will most likely take your advice,but still curious,how many
trees are enough for 1 person with moderate coffee consumption?
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Is anyone on BI, using mechanical harvesting?
For the skin around the bean, some kind of simple rock tumbling system(dry) with washed gravel, should clean em in hours!
Cant beat the air popper!
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Is there an inventor in the audience? Some simple low cost mechanism that takes the husk off the coffee bean could make some money. I know I would buy one.
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I saw an article in one of the local papers (Damon, maybe you saw this) about guy on the Big Island who invented a machine to shell Mac nuts by oscillating(?) them (that's what it said in the article). Barney, the Mac nut and coffee grower down past Waiohinu said that this guy's machine actually shoots the nuts out at a hard surface at a measured velocity to crack the shell without damaging the nut. This guy might have the smarts to do the same for coffee beans, but don't count on him providing a low-cost solution. Barney says that he only leases his equipment for lots of cash.
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I found a machine that would be perfect for milling our backyard coffee. It's called a morteador. Here is the web site and quite a few pics of the machine. I'm hoping they still have stock left and ship to the USA!
http://joypix.blogspot.com/2008/02/small...inery.html
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Found
this document about small-scale coffee processing from Texas A&M. Turns out there are several coffee milling machine manufacturers, but none in the US! Denlab, McKinnon, and John Gordon are all in the UK.
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I think that's the guy, William Keith Whaling. It says that he's from Haaleha, HI. Where's that? Is that a misprint? Hmm, this patent's about 10 years old
Patent-speak is kinda funny in the way it describes functions.
I may have seen the article in the Hawaii Island Journal or the Hawaiian Airlines inflight mag, Hana Hou. I haven't been able to tease out the article from Google.
