Chicken plucker biuld

[City Farmer]

Whats VFD and why do you suggest a 3 phase?

3phase 1hp motors can be found really cheap. The VFD (Variable Frequency Drive) will convert your single phase power to 3 phase power. Then, you can fine tune/adjust the speed of the drum to anything you want.

 

[rasorbackq]

Variable Frequency Drive. Very common in industrial situations. A three phase motor is designed for variable speed applications and a VFD is the perfect way to control them.

However, that would require a source of 3 phase power. Normal residential service is single phase. Upgrading to 3 phase is EXPENSIVE! and highly impractical for a single application.

I expect he refers to using a VFD to convert single phase input to three phase output which is fairly practical in relatively low power applications.

I suspect the cost of a three phase motor would be prohibitive however.

I understand.
But I thought a house wiring was 2 phase so 220 can be had.

 

[PHPaul]

I understand.
But I thought a house wiring was 2 phase so 220 can be had.

Not quite. Residential wiring (in North America) is 220v split into two 110v "legs". Either leg to neutral is 110v, leg-to-leg is 220v. All single phase.

If you look at a breaker panel, the breakers on each side alternate legs to balance the load. That is , breaker 1 is on the "A" leg, breaker 3 is on the "B" leg, etc. A 220v breaker spans two legs, one from the "A" side and one from the "B" side, again to balance the load.

 

[EddieWalker]

We are raising chickens mostly for eggs and will butcher the males when they get big enough. My wife wants another chicken house just to raise them for eating and she doesn't want them to be in with our two existing chicken houses. When I butcher my chickens, I cut off their heads with an ax, then skin them. We freeze them and then cook them in the crock pot when we want to eat them.

Friends raise chickens for meat that they sell locally. They dedicate the entire weekend to processing them, which means a lot of plucking with a machine similar to what I think you guy are using. We don't understand why people want the skin on them? What am I missing? Why pluck a bird?

 

[MMagis]

A lot of people like the skin. Ever see skinless rotisserie chicken? Or skinless fried chicken?

 

[PHPaul]

Of the 60 birds we process each year, 12 to 15 of the smallest ones are left whole for "boilers" for soup and other dishes. These would need to be left skin-on as the fat under the skin adds flavor and makes excellent soup stock. We also like our wings with skin on for deep frying.

The rest of the birds we cut up. Neither of us care for (or can tolerate...old age and digestion ya know...) the dark meat so drumsticks and thighs are boned and ground for "chickenburger" which is mixed with hamburger (10% chicken, 90% beef) to stretch the burger and not waste the chicken.

Breasts are filleted and frozen, scraps are saved for stir-fry.

So while the majority of the skin is tossed, I can't think of a way to automate plucking just the wings so I'll continue to pluck the whole bird.

 

[BHD]

I understand.
But I thought a house wiring was 2 phase so 220 can be had.

you do not have two phases, you have a split single phase, the 220 is the single phase, the 110 come from splitting the phase in the center, and grounding it or putting the neutral in the center of it, Single-phase Power Systems : Polyphase AC Circuits - Electronics Textbook

two phase does exist, or did, but not in the resident home. and I do not think it is used currently in a commercial capacity, the standard now is three phase, three phase, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_electric_power

 

[rasorbackq]

We don't understand why people want the skin on them? What am I missing? Why pluck a bird?

Chicken skin cooked just right all crunchy and greasy:dance1: yummy. Not good for you but still tasty. The skin keeps the meat most

 

[rasorbackq]

Not quite. Residential wiring (in North America) is 220v split into two 110v "legs". Either leg to neutral is 110v, leg-to-leg is 220v. All single phase.

If you look at a breaker panel, the breakers on each side alternate legs to balance the load. That is , breaker 1 is on the "A" leg, breaker 3 is on the "B" leg, etc. A 220v breaker spans two legs, one from the "A" side and one from the "B" side, again to balance the load.

Was thinking that the 2 120 volts were 2 different phases but they are out of phase by 180 degrees?

 

[joefromga]

Chicken skin cooked just right all crunchy and greasy:dance1: yummy. Not good for you but still tasty. The skin keeps the meat most

It is good for you. It's the flour that's bad for you. Why would anyone NOT want the skin on their chicken? That's crazy.