Home Made Dehydrators

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the past
https://www.backwoodshome.com/for-large-quantity-food-dehydration-try-this-homemade-gem-from-the-past/

  (SNIP) ... unless you’re living somewhere like one of our southwestern deserts, where you can depend on plenty of hot, dry weather for lengthy periods, solar dryers (whether purchased or owner-built) just aren’t dependable enough for real backwoods-type use. As a result, I fooled around with several other ideas, but none of them worked out to our satisfaction.

I might have given up on the idea entirely had it not been for the intervention of an elderly friend  ...  he also showed me what was left of the big wood-fired fruit dryers that his father and grandfather had used in the days before electric refrigeration, large commercial canneries, and such. While he explained how they were used, we looked them over. Remembering from his early youth, he also told me how his family, and other large commercial growers, would dry many tons of fruit every year. Demand always outran what they were able to supply.   ---CONTINUED---

*Homemade Food Dehydrator*
http://www.alpharubicon.com/prepinfo/dehydratorstryder.htm

  If you’re like most survival folks you’ve got a commercial dehydrator or two that you use to preserve foods. . . . I went to get the dehydrator to make some and then just decided – what the heck – I’ll make a home made dehydrator . . .   ---CONTINUE---

How To Build A Solar Dehydrator
https://www.askaprepper.com/how-to-build-a-solar-dehydrator/

  If you want to get the benefits of dried fruit without spending a lot of money at the grocery store, you might want to build your own fruit dryer. A fruit dryer is easy to build if you have the right tools and you use the right materials.

Here is a list of the tools you will need in order to build it easily:   ---CONTINUED---