Mobile flax decorticator

A mobile flax processing machine comprising, a mobile frame mounting said machine, means to collect flax straw, a shredder, means for directing collected flax to said shredder, means to rotate said shredder, a first conduit means directing flax from said shredder to a disc type flax decorticator having a rotating disc enclosed within a housing, means to rotate said disc, said flax decorticator having a working space formed between a working face on said disc and a working face in said housing, working elements projecting into said working space from said working faces said elements comprising pins sloped radially outward and tangentially so as to facilitate travel of flax straw through said working space while decorticating said flax straw into bast fibre and dross, impellers on said disc, a separator, a second conduit means, said impellers drawing air through said first conduit means and aiding transport of flax straw to said decorticator and from said decorticator through said second conduit means to said separator, said separator being a cyclone separator having a pair of axial outlets and and at least one opening through an outer surface thereof means to retain said bast fibre by inhibiting said bast fibre passing through said opening while permitting dross to pass therethrough, said separator rejecting a bast rich fraction through one of said axial outlets, and means for packaging said bast rich faction for transport.