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Chris

12-03-2003 08:50:53




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I have never been around a hammer mill. Would some of you knowledgable folks fill me in on all of their uses.

The reason I ask is two fold. First, I may be able to use one to make my own feed mixes and second, I see these old hammermills getting bought out at farm sales for iron price and it is a shame to see all of them scrapped.
I'd buy one if I would have a practical use for it. Will they mill flour?

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Bharat Mohan Taggarsi

12-21-2003 08:26:46




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 Re: Need basic hammer mill information in reply to Chris, 12-03-2003 08:50:53  
How to reduce powder and small particles of 1to2mm. size in oystershell milling in a hammer mill with 720rpm. motor amd 24inches rotor.End product should pass through 6or7mm. metal screens.The end product now has around 8to10% powder content which we want to be reduced to 2to3% because if we remove the powder from the end product we will be in a loss.



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JB

12-05-2003 07:15:35




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 Re: Need basic hammer mill information in reply to Chris, 12-03-2003 08:50:53  
YES I HAVE A HAMMER MILL, IT WORKS GOOD FOR GRINGING FEED FOR COWS AND PIGS,
WHAT I DO IS GRIND FEED AND BAG IT,THEN MIX UP 100LBS AT A TIME WITH A CEMENT MIXER WITH MINERALS SOYBEAN AND EVERYTHING ELSE. I BOUGHT THE HAMMER MILL FOR A GUY CHANGED IT FROM A BELT TO PTO WITH PARTS OFF A OLD BALER.
I RUN IT WITH ABOUT 32 HP TRACTOR 1/4 TO 1/2 THROTTLE. I LEAVE IT SIT OUTSIDE AND KEEP IT COVERED. PAID FOR IT SELF IN ABOUT 3 MONTHS. AS FAR AS MILLING FLOUR WITH THE FINE SCREN, I KMOW IT GETS PREETY DUSTY.

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Delbert

12-03-2003 17:41:54




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 Re: Need basic hammer mill information in reply to Chris, 12-03-2003 08:50:53  
Chris if you buy a hammermill try to get one that has a pto rather than belt drive. The reason is that unless you can put it inside where it is dry you may have trouble tighting the belt. Why is that you say. If you want to grind feed someday when it is a little slick ice or mud you won,t be able to tighten the belt. And also if you are not lined up with the belt just right and you get the grinder full of feed the belt will come off and what a mess to clean out. With the pto you just back up to it hook it up give the old tractor all the gas it,s got and start shoveling. Need something under dust collecter to catch what you are grinding the dust collector is the big funnel like thing on the grinder. We used to put a sack on the end of this big funnel to keep the feed from blowing a way. Well enough of my of the wall sense of humor it is getting close to christmas and santa might see this. Have a gooden.

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paul

12-03-2003 12:56:44




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 Re: Need basic hammer mill information in reply to Chris, 12-03-2003 08:50:53  
I'm used to grinder-mixers, which is a hammer mill with a big tub behind it with an auger to stir the contents. They are pto driven from the tractor. You change the screen sizes from really tiny (very slow feeding) to really big (1.5" holes or more for ear corn or alfalfa/hay) and combine your feed ingredients, it gets blown into the tub in back & mixed into a good balanced ration for your livestock - courser for cattle, finer for hogs & chickens.

A hammer mill is typically run by a flat belt, and can be kinda small or kinda bigger. You need to have a wagon or something to dump the feed into.

A burr mill will make flour - it grinds the grain repeatedly, esp the very small 1-2 hp old flat-belt models. They also made some larger ones for feed making.

Then there is a roller mill, that squeezes the grain through 2 rollers, some believe this makes better feed for sensitive calves or the like' less fines & powder but breaks the seed coat.

--->Paul

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Ben Martin

04-26-2006 23:57:00




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 Re: Re: Need basic hammer mill information in reply to paul, 12-03-2003 12:56:44  
I am looking for a mill that would process boy beans i dont know what they look like or how they work if you have any information please let me know



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Ron

12-03-2003 12:13:38




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 Re: Need basic hammer mill information in reply to Chris, 12-03-2003 08:50:53  
If you use a belt driven hammer mill, be sure to drop a chain from the tractor, to the ground...!!! That chain will discharge any static electricity from the tractor, or you can get a GOOD Shock, when you touch the tractor...!! We used a JD "B", also..sometimes a WD-45 AC..!! Seemed like at about 2/3 throttle...



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MacSC

12-03-2003 13:01:00




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 Re: Re: Need basic hammer mill information in reply to Ron, 12-03-2003 12:13:38  
...Yeah Ron, I had forgotton about getting the pee shocked out of me because we had forgotten to "ground" the tractor. But, it didn't take you long to remember! My Dad is 84 now and he was telling about the milling he did for some of the locals that would bring a sack of corn to grind for their cow or pig and every now and then along would come a fellow that had several sacks of shelled corn and wanted it ground real fine (like corn meal) for their chickens. He knew that they didn't, first of all, have chickens nor would you grind it that fine. It seems that every now and then one of those guys would get arrested for moonshining:)

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walter

12-03-2003 10:05:49




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 Re: Need basic hammer mill information in reply to Chris, 12-03-2003 08:50:53  
They are very useful. I don't think they will grind fine enough for flour. Always wear eye protection and hearing protection is a good idea as well. These machines can grind you as well so be very careful.



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MacSC

12-03-2003 10:01:40




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 Re: Need basic hammer mill information in reply to Chris, 12-03-2003 08:50:53  
40-50 years ago Dad ran a small hammermill with a belt from the B John Deere. He had several different sized "screens" for it so we hammered whole corn (shucks, cobs and all) for the animals, as well as other grains including wheat/oat straw and mixed with minerals etc. which made for some good cattle feed. All that was done with a screen with about a 1/2" hole. We used a screen with about a 1/8" hole to hammer shelled corn and rye which made pretty good bread, albiet a bit grainy as I rememberd:-)

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DMH

12-03-2003 16:54:05




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 Re: Re: Need basic hammer mill information in reply to MacSC, 12-03-2003 10:01:40  
Oh great! Now the poor guy won't be able to touch one at any price! :-)



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MacSC

12-03-2003 17:09:05




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 Re: Re: Re: Need basic hammer mill information in reply to DMH, 12-03-2003 16:54:05  
I dunno, microbreweries, hammermills, plenty corn growers on this forum, we could be getting a gift from Chris next Christmas... LOL



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