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The Markham Farm Chicken Plucker
If you are processing only 1 or 2 chickens for meat, just
plucking by hand is fine. But we usually process 10 to 15
chickens at a time, and under those conditions plucking
becomes too time-consuming for efficiency. I had tried the
cheap drill attachments with no luck, and building my own
tub-style chicken plucker seemed awfully
expensive—hundreds of dollars—to make economic sense.
We needed something that could be built much less
expensively and still do a good job; thus arose our own
chicken plucker design that I'll be sharing with you.
Construction
1 Use the two 7-1/2-inch pieces and two 12-inch pieces of 2
× 4 lumber to construct the drum holder as illustrated, using
two deck screws for each union. The center of the second
cross-piece is 3-1/4 inch from the connected end. Drill
3/16-inch holes at 1-1/8 inches and 4-3/8 inches from the free
ends of the 12-inch pieces. When done, paint the piece and let
it dry.
Parts List
12'' long 1/2'' diameter steel
shaft
Grainger Part #
5JW35
1
Grainger Part #
2X897
2
½'' Pillow block bearings
