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    Finger spacing for barrel chicken plucker

    I'm planning on sharing once I've finished and tested it. I have to determine the finger spacing for the barrel and get those in, and finish welding all the frame work. Then it should be completed.
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    Finger spacing for barrel chicken plucker

    I've read where some people set the fingers 2.5" apart on the barrel and some people say theirs is 3" apart. One individual said they put theirs at 3" apart, then they tried 4". They seemed to think the wider 4" spacing did a better job plucking. Some people say 2 rows around the barrel and...
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    How to get the feather plate out of a barrel chicken plucker with bottom on barrel.

    Well, I finally figured something out on the problem of getting the featherplate out of my plucker. I cut the barrel off just a little below the featherplate. I then cut a 3" wide ring out of another barrel and bolted it inside the bottom of the barrel I cut off, and it set right down in the...
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    How to get the feather plate out of a barrel chicken plucker with bottom on barrel.

    I'm in the process of building a chicken plucker out of a plastic 55 gallon barrel. I read many articles online about building one this way and several versions of it, so I decided to build one leaving the bottom on the barrel and putting a feather shute on it so the feathers and water did not...
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