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Don Mountain

07-05-2006 05:53:06

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I have a small, antique, International Harvestor belt drive hammer mill that I am wanting to grind corn and oats with for my wife"s horses and chickens. Through help from some folks on this site I acquired a right angle belt drive unit for my old Farmall Super C tractor, and have it mounted and running. Now I am looking for one of the drive belts that are about 5 inches or 6 inches wide, and maybe 8 or 10 feet long to run the hammer mill. I haven"t seen any on eBay for awhile. Are these available new anywhere? Or does anybody have an idea where I can get a good used one? I haven"t seen any listed in the local farm auctions here in Southwest Iowa either.

Don Mountain

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Haas

07-05-2006 08:38:41

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Re: Equipment Drive Belt in reply to Don Mountain, 07-05-2006 05:53:06

You can buy new flat belts at the site that has old engine parts and assessories. However they don't participate in the fees for the YT site, so I can't post the link. If you want the website name, you will have to E mail me and I will send it. The new belts are a little pricey though.

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Andy Martin

07-05-2006 07:13:30

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Re: Equipment Drive Belt in reply to Don Mountain, 07-05-2006 05:53:06

Baler belts are the way to go. Look around for an old Vermeer baler with the 4-inch belts. Old used ones will work fine. You will probably find someone who will give you the belts or who has old belting lying around that they will give away.

You want a long belt, even 40 ft is not too long. You use the weight of the belt for tension. It is almost impossible to line up belt driven equipment with short belts, and then get the belt tensioned. With a 40 ft belt the pulleys are only 20 ft apart. Of course 30 ft will work fine, but you really want the belt to droop a little due to it's weight. The longer the belt the more the tractor or hammermill can move and you still will not lose tension. With a 10 ft belt, 5 ft between pulleys, 1/8 inch in pulley separation will affect tension. With a long belt, 1 inch will not affect tension much.

The pulleys are crowned and the belt wants to go to the high point so they will try to run into the center of the pulley. With a long belt, the pulleys just have to be aligned pretty good where with a short belt they have to be almost exact.

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RustyFarmall

07-05-2006 06:23:41

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Re: Equipment Drive Belt in reply to Don Mountain, 07-05-2006 05:53:06

Don, where ya at in southwest Iowa? Have you considered using baler belts? Might be hard to come up with the width you want but splicing several together should give you the length. In the past I've seen those original belts sell at farm auctions, always brought way too much for the condition they were in.

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earlschieb

07-05-2006 12:24:31

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Re: Equipment Drive Belt in reply to RustyFarmall, 07-05-2006 06:23:41

How do you tell the length of one, do you go by just laying it out flat, and use that for a length, or go around the whole outside of the belt? I have an excellent belt that I am tired of moving around, got rid of the Hammer Mill, and have no use for the belt.

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Don Mountain

07-06-2006 06:28:51

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Re: Equipment Drive Belt in reply to earlschieb, 07-05-2006 12:24:31

I was just looking for a belt where the distance from center of pulley to center of pulley was about 10 feet or more apart, which would give a belt length of 20 feet or more. But evidently anything longer is better for actual operation from previous posts. I am not restricted for space in any way, so it could be longer without problems. The only belt drive equipment I have been around was when my grandfather used my old Farmall M to drive a sawmill, and that belt must have been 50 feet long from pulley to pulley.

Would you consider selling your belt, and where might you be located?

Don Mountain

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