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Peanuts are a great low impact crop
and a great source of protein,
very yummy.
500,000,000 worldwide depend on them,
But there is a catch shelling them by hand without a big industrial scale machine is
a slow and painful process.
Then an armature inventor named Jacques Brandeis took a trip to Mali,
saw the problem and
got involved.
Jacques invented a very simple machine made out of
metal and concrete, that can be run by a hand crank.
Or like this one in the Philippines by pedal power.
and its very easy to raise
Give it one more turn cause these are very fine peanuts.
Lock it down.
No tools necessary.
Alright.
Here we go.
It's durable, experts predict should last about 40 years
and costs about 50 bucks to make.
Using the universal Sheller a village can now process about three quarters of a ton
of peanuts
in the same time they used to produce just ten pounds
It's currently being distributed worldwide proving that sometimes the best tool in the
box
is simple ingenuity.