pic.Necessity is the mother of invention

This is not the first time,nor the last time we will be using a 1/2 reversible drill for a power source. In the process of grinding hamburger, the counter meat grinder gave up the ghost from stripped plastic gears. Now this was not a cheap Saturday night special meat grinder by no means.
My daughter had a old hand crank vacuum counter mounted grinder that the vacuum didn't hold. My son removed the handle and attached a 1/2 " reversible drill. I'll tell you, it worked for powering the grinder, did it so darned slick it out did the counter grinder when it was operating. Never seen one work so clean, other than the grinder in the supermarket. Ours pushed out hamburger without stopping to clean the cutters and the meat grinder plate, which we had to do with the counter top model every 5 minutes. I sure wished we could find a grinder with the power and speed the 1/2 inch reversible has in a new grinder,it's highly unlikely in a counter top grinder. Our counter top grinder was an OSTER and not a cheapy,had it for over 20 yrs, and never knew it had plastic gears and wondered why the didn't make the gears out of steel, other than built in obsolescence. Well anyway we don't have room in our kitchen for an industrial grinder on a stand lol.We are going to finish up the deer using our mickey mouse grinder,just don't tell OSHA. It takes 2 hands to hold the grinder and another person to feed the grinder and push the meat into it with the push stick, plus another person holding the cord to unplug it,in case of emergency. I would hate to process a moose thru this setup,but it works for us for now. Thought you might be interested in learning a new trick or get a chuckle from our ingenuity.
Regards,
LOU

Hey whatever gets the job done. I've seen my brother mix a cake with the cordless and one beater.

I have a buddy that made a margarita blender out of a weed wacker motor for boating on the Mississippi.

Anyone remember the old "Daisey" brand butter churns? Dad took the hand crank off of mothers and powered it with a heavy duty 1/2" drill. Made many pounds of butter during WW2 with it. clint

Ya just didn't take the invention far enough. One 2x6 or 2x8 about two foot long, two nails or wood screws, two extra large hose clamps, and one electric switch. Drill a hole on both sides of the little stand and screw or nail it to the board, shim up the drill motor till it is level with the shaft and put the big hose clamps around the board and drill and tighten clamps, install the ON-OFF switch next to the motor and Grind Some Meat.

That Ought to work fine Lou ,,.while kids m y brothers and I rigged up meat grinder with big driven wheel off pld ihc grain head reel, used the belt and come along , and strap wrapped the meat grinder to a John Deere L and run at very slow Idle ..was kinda neat to hear the L labor just a little on some tuf stuff,,. LOL

Can you drill a couple holes in that base and bolt it to a big board or sheet of plywood. Add in a holder for the drill. Go to Gander Mountain and get a foot switch for the drill.

Years ago (About 1955) Dad built a big box kite. We had that thing way out there and was having a hard time getting it back in until Dad got a low speed 1/2" drill out. Kite is long gone, but still have the drill.

Be careful my mom lost part of her finger in a grinder like that and when she got mad she would always point it in my dad's face. It always ended with my dad laughing!

In the early 1970s dad made home made butter with an old egg washer. I sure miss that stuff, it was delicious.

Seems like I was always the kid assigned to crank things, including the meat grinder because we didn't have electricity at the farm at that time.

Parts for the Osters are readily found on Ebay and through an internet search, those gears are common. I'm resurrecting our old Kitchen Center and buying new implements off Ebay. Way better machine than the Kitchenaide we spent big money on. When I first got it out of the barn where it had sat for 20 years it took it 8 or 10 minutes running before the variable speed kicked in and started working. I love that old thing.

we have an apple peeler that had a suction cup on the bottom to hold it to the counter top, well the suction cup gave up last fall and it was a PIA holding the peeler and operating it. I grabbed a C clamp and clamped it to the side of the table, it works better then the suction cup ever did.

My job is peeling the apples, my arm starts to hurt after a few dozen and I keep wanting to take the handle off and mounting my drill to it but the misses doesn't like the idea after seeing the youtube video of the guy using a drill and a spade bit to peel apples.

Have not considered a drill. My cousins had a setup where they jacked up there Dad's pickup and attached a shaft to a rear wheel. It worked great when they had hog butchering days it ran all day. It had a nail in the shaft for a shear pin. Personally I love my Kitchenaid attachment.
Ron

My grandfather hooked up a meat grinder to an old drive unit that was used to run cow clippers back in the 1930's or so. The coupling is a piece of galvanized water pipe and the shear pin is a #8 nail. I have that unit and it is still using the original electric motor. The #8 nail is the perfect sized shear pin. It is the only meat grinder we have ever used since before I was born. Used it a year ago and it works as slick as it ever did.