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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 28, 2010 9:08:57 GMT 12.75
I need another grinder. Dad's got two ancient hand grinders, but they take forever and will wear your arm out worse than an ice cream churn.
My last two electric grinders both burnt out and now I need to get a good one for sausagizing wild hogs. Dad wants to go halves with me and get a decent one instead of them fifty dollar models that burn out after half a hog.
Any suggestions on a GOOD one that won't break us?
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Jun 28, 2010 11:48:55 GMT 12.75
Post by brittonfaith on Jun 28, 2010 11:48:55 GMT 12.75
You'd make me pull our grinder out of storage, wouldn't ya??? Mike's dad, my folks, and us all have setups like this. Have used them for years. Just make sure to use some c-clamps to hold it onto the counter/work bench. We've even clamped this out across a couple chairs. Grinder is a No.22 Enterprise. Motor is a 1/3 hp off an old Maytag ringer washer. Pully is 12-inch from the hardware store. It's held on with the same wing nut that we use for the crank handle. There's 16 inches between the mounts for the grinder and motor. Belt was salvaged off a lawnmower. It's all mounted on a 2x8 plank. A piece of chain is mounted on the motor end of the plank and is attatched with a bolt to the motor mount (as a safety should grinder gets bound and to keep motor from flopping around while grinding). This set up does not work for sausage making. It runs too fast and blows out the casing. We still have to hand crank sausage. (I didn't go there did I?) But I suppose if you changed the motor and pully sizes, you could get it to grind slower. I'm sure there are charts on the web to calculate rpm on either end.
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Jun 28, 2010 13:09:57 GMT 12.75
Post by brittonfaith on Jun 28, 2010 13:09:57 GMT 12.75
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Jun 28, 2010 13:18:05 GMT 12.75
Post by OLKoot on Jun 28, 2010 13:18:05 GMT 12.75
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Jun 28, 2010 18:44:21 GMT 12.75
Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 28, 2010 18:44:21 GMT 12.75
" I don't want to blow the sausage casings and have to go back to hand cranking my sausage... I already need reading glasses! " Faith, I ain't going to touuch that one. But if he is well,Paws will!
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Post by brittonfaith on Jun 29, 2010 1:53:09 GMT 12.75
Know what you mean about fingers. Rule #1: start counting your fingers before you plug-in the grinder and don't stop counting them until you go to bed that night. Still have all mine. The h.p. is what provides the force to push the meat through the grinder. Motor rpm really don't matter as much as what the rpm of the auger is. That's going to depend on how much the motors rpm is reduced. A higher rpm usually means more pounds/hr being ground. 10-15 lbs and hour is a nice steady grinding pace for most home butchers. But, try shooting out breakfast links at that rate. You'll still be splitting your casings every time. That is unless you're willing to accept a slower pace and feed the grinder little bits of meat one........cube.......at.........a..........time. So you might ask why we didn't reduce our grinders rpm so we could work up sausage. Well....This setup was rigged together by the Britton men. That's two strikes against me right there - not being born Britton, and having curves - which the guys here equal with lack of brains or machanical skills. Actually, I think it has more to do with drunken dares between the guys while grinding. I've been wanting to bring the speed down and craft a quard for the belt/flywheel. But orders are to not tinker with their "perfection" .
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Post by brittonfaith on Jun 29, 2010 9:55:18 GMT 12.75
Now you've got me to thinking about how I can improve our grinding system. So I started looking up web images of motorized meat grinders for suggestions. Saw a couple that are even shafted directly into the grinder. Lots of different layouts and by far, our system is the crudest and least safe of them all!! Definately a true redneck model! 1,2,3,4,5......6,7,8,9,10...yep there all still there. Whew!
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Jun 29, 2010 23:48:15 GMT 12.75
Post by Paws on Jun 29, 2010 23:48:15 GMT 12.75
Tobes you know that Othmar has got to be our best source of info for that. Now at the level that you do work I'd knock around the used butcher shop market to find maybe a rebuilt something or the other even. E-bay wouldn't scare me off but I'd be real careful.
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Post by azslim on Jun 30, 2010 4:13:12 GMT 12.75
Check on restaurants going out of business, lots of times they have good ones, keep your eye peeled on the bargain cave at Cabela's or whatever the Bass Pro version is - I picked up my 1.5 hp from Cabela's for $200 because it had some cosmetic damage. You can get by with the counter-top versions if you work in 9 to 12 lb batches and let them cool after a batch - about as long as it takes to drink a beer is sufficient. I use a stuffer for links, easier on my grinder that way.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jul 2, 2010 19:58:07 GMT 12.75
Sportsman's Guide has a ban saw/grinder combo with stainless steel table and 3/4hp motor. Looks great, but would like to talk to someone that has one first, before shelling out the $250.00.
Dad's got an idea that that's exactly what we need; hard to argue with him, but still I've burnt up too many cheap ones to risk getting another hunk of junk in disquise.
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