Alvan Blanch Crop Thresher

The Alvan Blanch Midget Crop Thresher is a portable thresher designed with heavy gauge welded steel with lifetime sealed bearings and anti-corrosion paint, and a bolted tubular square support frame with feet. The product has dimensions: 1420 x 580 x 1900 mm with a total weight is 190 kg. The machine has a 317 mm Peg drum with an adjustable concave, a feed table, and a side discharge spout. The drive is a PTO shaft from Power Tiller, including an attachment for speed conversion to 540 rpm.

Cleaning is done through manual rotation and raking. The crop is fed directly into the drum from the table, and the separated grain falls through concave via the collection chute. The remaining grain, recovered as straw, is discharged from the drum onto fixed sloping sieve for secondary cleaning by manual raking.

Technical support is provided by the Alvan Blanch or its network of approved dealers.

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Testing performed by scientists from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and Kansas State University found that the machine worked satisfactorily for paddy and sorghum threshing but was not suitable for millets, groundnut, and maize.

Potential hazards related to the operation of this product include sharp and fast cutting tools.