How to make a removable machine from a washing machine with your own hands

Everyone who breeds birds in the household has repeatedly come across such a process as carcass processing. In this case, the carcass is doused with boiling water and cleaned of feathers manually. It is acceptable for small quantity.

But if you are selling a large volume of products, then manual labor is long, tedious and inefficient. It is not necessary to buy special equipment, you can make a removable machine from a washing machine with your own hands.

How does a homemade picking machine work

Before getting acquainted with the types of plucking machines, consider the principle of operation of the technique. The machine consists of a tank, on the sides of which there are rubber beaters. They have a ribbed surface that allows you to grab and pull out feathers, while the bottom of the container rotates. As you can see, the pen-removing machine is a simple device.

How to use the plucking technique:

  • A scalded bird carcass is lowered into the car.
  • The equipment is connected to the network. The bottom rotates – the carcass begins to jump and beats against the “rubber fingers”. Feathers fly off.

At the exit, you will get an almost completely plucked bird, only small feathers on the paws will remain.

Which bird is used for plucking with a plucker:

  • geese;
  • quails;
  • broilers;
  • ducks;
  • index
  • chickens.

Types of bird pluckers

According to the construction mechanism used, they are divided into:

  1. Centrifuge. The container is mostly round in shape, has a vertical hole where the bird is loaded. The beaters on the bottom and sides of the container help to pluck the feathers when the bottom rotates. During operation, water is supplied to the tank for greater productivity of plucking. Suitable for small birds: quails, chickens, ducks.
  2. drum type. “Tentacles” are on the surface of the drum, which is rotated by the engine. You need to bring the carcass to the drum and press it. So you can pluck a large bird, but for small ones it is not very convenient.
  3. Power tool with nozzle. The manufacture of such a plucking machine will be very cheap. A nozzle with “tentacles” is put on the tool and brought in the carcass. It is not very convenient to use it – your hands will get tired. Therefore, to process a large number of birds, use the previous options.

In one hour of work with a bird picker, you can process up to 30 carcasses.

We suggest making a homemade feather plucker from a washing machine.

Instructions: how to make a pick-up machine from an automatic and semi-automatic machine

Before you make a chicken pluck yourself, prepare a drawing. It will help you take into account and calculate all the structural elements, as well as correctly assemble the mechanism.

For manufacturing, you can take a washing machine-automatic or semi-automatic. The main thing is that the washer should be working and with vertical loading. It can be “Baby”, “Fairy” or “Oka”.

You will need to purchase rubber beaters. These are inexpensive parts, and you can buy them on the market or order them in an online store. It should be borne in mind that the size of the beaters depends on the dimensions of the carcass: the largest are for geese and turkeys, the smallest are for quails.

If you are worried that the carcass may be damaged during plucking, then this is not the case. Rubber tentacles provide maximum bird safety.

What tools will you need:

  • set of wrenches;
  • socket wrenches 8-30 mm;
  • small wrench;
  • drill with a step drill;
  • Bulgarian;
  • passages;
  • a hammer;
  • tester or multimeter;
  • marker.

Now get your washing machine ready. It needs minimal alteration, so no special costs are foreseen.

Converting a washing machine into a removable one

All you have to do is take the motor out of the case. Since holes for beaters will be made in the bottom of the case, the flowing water will fall on the engine during operation. This must not be allowed.

Disconnect the bottom and remove the electric motor. Then do this:

  • Remove the activator with the drive mechanism.
  • Take out the entire electrical part.
  • After preparing the washer, take the shower head and put a rubber hose on it.

You won’t need a shower and a hose right now, but you should prepare them in advance.

Do-it-yourself assembly of a removable structure

Now you need to collect all the elements into a single device. Do this:

  1. From a steel corner, weld a support for the motor.
  2. Connect the electric motor to the network. How to do it correctly, we told in previous articles.
  3. From a metal corner, build a frame for the finished device. The body must be at a certain height from the ground.
  4. For the design to work, install pulleys. You can take them from the same washing machine.
  5. Put a small pulley on the motor shaft, and a large pulley on the activator shaft.
  6. Connect the pulleys with a belt. This will allow the motor to transfer speed to the activator, which will rotate the bottom of the device.
  7. Now make sure that the housing and motor are securely installed, as if they are strongly vibrated, they can fly off.

It remains to install rubber beaters. Proceed in sequence:

  • Make holes in the tank using a drill with a step drill. Depending on the size of the beaters, the size of the holes should be three or four millimeters smaller.
  • To allow waste water and feathers to come out, make larger holes between the main holes. Then place a tray or wide container under the tank to collect wastewater.
  • To facilitate the installation of beaters, the holes are lubricated. You can use engine oil. After lubrication, insert the rubber rams into the prepared holes.

To protect the motor from water, make a plastic casing for it from a can or box.

The assembly of the picking machine is completed. In order for water to flow during operation, install the previously prepared hose and shower head on the edge of the container.

Test work

Time to test the homemade device.

Why is it recommended to use watering when plucking? Because within 2 minutes of the beating of the bird on the beaters, all the feathers fly off with the flow of water. While with the dry version, large feathers remain on the bird and more time is spent.

Since a lot of water flows out during operation and feathers fly, carry out the procedure in a specially designated place.

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