Seed Cleaner - Has anyone every used one of these?

[Betrue2yurself]

Here is the link of the Seed Cleaner

http://www.toysfortweets.com/apps/webst ... ow/2760000

I'm just curious if anyone has used one of these to help save seed and money? What do you guys think? Is it worth the investment?

[Sam007]

$180.00 hmmmm...kind of expensive. I don't know how it will clean the seeds hygienically if the seeds are contaminated with poop.

[KarenB]

I dump the seed daily into a bowl, and at the end of the week I put a quarter cup of it at a time into a shallow bowl and use a blow dryer to carefully blow away the hulls. It's amazing the amount of seed I save. And it's free.

[lovezebs]

KarenB
I do that daily. I dump the seed cups into a shallow Tupperware and blow away the hulls. These seeds then go into a Tupperware container that is placed at bottom of flights for foraging. Seed cups are then washed and re-filled with fresh seed mix.

@Betrue2yurself
Regarding the Seed Cleaner. Not sure if it would be cost efficient. It is kinda expensive like Sam said. I guess it would be worthwhile, if your doing huge amounts of seeds on a daily level, but...
I manage just fine with my 1975 hair blow dryer that still works most of the time

[monotwine]

Some on here and on other forums have come up with fantastic and rather cheap to build DIY cleaners that include using a vacuum.

[lovezebs]

monotwine
How does it work?

~Elana~

[monotwine]

http://www.finchforum.com/viewtopic.php ... andoaviary
Finally found the link to the thread from a while back.

[Smurf]

If you do a google search for 'seed winnower' you'll find photo's and info on a few different designs.

I'd be worried about just how clean the seed would be as it won't clean fungus, bacteria, feaces etc from seed