Hemp - boil or no boil whole or crushed?

[laguna]

Crushed without soaking and boiling for me has proved very successful lately, plus it keeps for ages.

 

[chrissh]

Boiled hemp all the time for me … I boil my own hemp and keep the water in a plastic bottle to take with me and use it to mix my ground bait

 

[sagalout]

Crushed

How do you crush it Chris?

 

[Peter Jacobs]

For the hook or loose feed then for me it is always boiled.

If to be added to a ground bait then I lay it on a large baking tray and grill it in the oven.

Allow it to cool and then "wizz" it up in the food mixer ¹

That way you keep and release all the attractive oils contained in the seeds.


Note ¹ assuming one knows how to use said "wizzer" of course

 

[laguna]

How do you crush it Chris?

I use a 5 ton bottle jack mounted in a frame Andy.

For the hook or loose feed then for me it is always boiled.

If to be added to a ground bait then I lay it on a large baking tray and grill it in the oven.

Allow it to cool and then "wizz" it up in the food mixer ¹

That way you keep and release all the attractive oils contained in the seeds.


Note ¹ assuming one knows how to use said "wizzer" of course

Yeah absolutely Peter - its a wiz!
I love the smell of toasted hemp and remember the first time doing it in an open pan... pop corn has nothing on these fellas when they go!

 

[sagalout]

I use a 5 ton bottle jack mounted in a frame Andy

Isn't that a bit OTT for a grain of hemp

 

[laguna]

Isn't that a bit OTT for a grain of hemp

Lol 1/2 Kg at a time

 

[thecrow]

Boiled and whole every time, twice that I have purchased the larger hemp I have been unable to get it to split didn't seem to bother the fish but I have more confidence in it when it has split.

 

[sagalout]

5 ton bottle jack mounted in a frame

So do you have metal plates in the frame? How do you get the crushed hemp out? Any pictures?

 

[laguna]

So do you have metal plates in the frame? How do you get the crushed hemp out? Any pictures?

No pics of that but its a simple setup. It consists of 2 threaded tube sections and a block of steel with a mesh in between. The block of steel jacks up inside the bottom tube full of particles which gets squeezed through the mesh into the top section. I just mount it on the cross member and it gets compressed up against the top of an engineers bench.

We had another way to produce bulk (5Kg) using our sand Muller mixer (substituting sand for particles) but the motor burned out. We originally used that for mulling over ground baits as well and for sand casting clays for some foundry work.

 

[sagalout]

It consists of 2 threaded tube sections and a block of steel with a mesh in between. The block of steel jacks up inside the bottom tube full of particles which gets squeezed through the mesh into the top section. I just mount it on the cross member and it gets compressed up against the top of an engineers bench.

I am obviously being dense but I can't picture that.

 

[laguna]

I am obviously being dense but I can't picture that.

Okay again..
2 hollow tubes screwed together with steel mesh placed between them and a solid block of steel acting like a piston slides up inside the bottom tube section only.

The bottom tube is inverted and filled half way with hemp seed
The block of steel is placed inside
Then it is flipped over and placed on the bottle jack
The bottle jack is jacked up crushing the hemp and forcing it through the steel mesh into the top section of pipe.

 

[sagalout]

It is the very simples!