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What are they used for???

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old

03-19-2007 20:28:14




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Well I have both a grist mill and 2 hammer mills but don't really know what either one of them where used for in the past. So what where they used for as in like grinding grain etc.????? ????
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Oldmax

03-21-2007 06:30:14




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 Re: What are they used for??? in reply to old, 03-19-2007 20:28:14  
Is the griss mill a stone mill . There used to be a lot of stone mills in this area . powered by Hit-n-miss engines mostly about 5 HP running off Natural gas . but as far as I know are none left . But you can still grind corn on a hammer mill . My brother-n-law that lives in Bucyrus MO Grinds corn mill on a hammer mill you just have to use a small screen .



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Oldmax

03-21-2007 06:30:09




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 Re: What are they used for??? in reply to old, 03-19-2007 20:28:14  
Is the griss mill a stone mill . There used to be a lot of stone mills in this area . powered by Hit-n-miss engines mostly about 5 HP running off Natural gas . but as far as I know are none left . But you can still grind corn on a hammer mill . My brother-n-law that lives in Bucyrus MO Grinds corn mill on a hammer mill you just have to use a small screen .



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JOHN HARMON

03-20-2007 22:05:37




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 Re: What are they used for??? in reply to old, 03-19-2007 20:28:14  
Dad had a IHC Hammermill set up in the Corn Crib,run it off a Belt from his MM"U'. Pulled a wagon into the alley way under the Cyclone Dust Buster on the Blower Pipe.Had a Tube from an Overhead Bin which dribbled Oats down into the Mill and shoveled Ear Corn into the Mill just as fast as the Mill would take it. Grinding Feed Day was a big deal at our Place.Every body pitched in. Salt and Minerals were fed into the Oats and Ear Corn as they went into the Mill. After the Wagon was full it was pulled up close to the Feed Bin door at the Barn and hand shoveled thru a small door up high on the Wall into the Bin. We had 48 Stanchionsin the big barn and 16 in a small" L" barn connecting the big Barn to the Loafing Shed and Straw Mow.He tried to keep all the Stanchions full of Cows in Milk.Needless to say he replaced Screens and Bearings on that Mill quite often. A Hammermill would last maybe 5 years at the most before the bottom would disappear from use. I remember grinding some times 3 loads of Feed a week.He tried a John Deere Hammermill one time and after a month of use he hooked on it and dragged it down in the field and it sat there and rotted away over the years. Nothing like an IHC Hammermill to get the job done for him he would say. Funny ,he never did buy an IHC Tractor.My Dad passed on in 1981 and I still miss him.

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JOHN HARMON

03-20-2007 22:16:37




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 Re: What are they used for??? in reply to JOHN HARMON, 03-20-2007 22:05:37  
I don't know what a Grist Mill is . I had a Letz Burr Mill once to Grind Beef Cattle feed with.It did not beat the Grain and Cob as bad as a Hammermill would.



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Gumby

03-20-2007 05:22:06




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 Re: What are they used for??? in reply to old, 03-19-2007 20:28:14  
My grandfather had a hammer mill to grind up ear corn to feed to their livestock (hogs, chickens and sheep). I wish I had one now to grind up ear corn for my kids' goats.



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coup

03-20-2007 02:56:33




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 Re: What are they used for??? in reply to old, 03-19-2007 20:28:14  
use to be about every five miles or so here someone had a grist mill,were run with huge hit and miss engines....it was good thing for the comunity and the people that has them prospered from getting a percentage of the meal...have heard there is a demand for organic cornmeal but not sure.



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msb

03-20-2007 07:53:37




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 Re: What are they used for??? in reply to coup, 03-20-2007 02:56:33  
For a real treat, grind some dried sweet corn and make corn bread with the meal.



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georgeky

03-19-2007 20:46:29




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 Re: What are they used for??? in reply to old, 03-19-2007 20:28:14  
old you can grind feed with either one, but the grist mill can grind fine enough for corn meal and maybe flour to. A storekeeper not far from home here had a old grist mill belted up to a Case I believe is a VAC and every once in a while he would grind fresh corn meal for some of us neighbors for a fee of course. When fresh ground from new corn(after it has dried a while) It makes twice as good cornbread as store bought meal. I hope this helped some.

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Ken Macfarlane

03-21-2007 07:36:24




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 Store bought cornmeal - the reason for the taste in reply to georgeky, 03-19-2007 20:46:29  
One of the reasons is they add lime (sodium hydroxide) to store bought cornmeal. The original reason was to increase absorbtion of Niacin (one of the vitamen b's) for people who eat only corn and not much meat.

We eat so much meat and chicken in north america there is no practical reason to continue the practice.



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George D.

03-21-2007 09:52:50




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 Re: Sodium Hydroxide in reply to Ken Macfarlane, 03-21-2007 07:36:24  
Ken --

Not sure about the practice of adding lime to cornmeal, but I'm pretty sure it isn't Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) that is used as an additive. Sodium hydroxide is more commonly known as lye, used in our grandparents' soap recipes.



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