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Motorizing a old hand crank meat grinder

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MattCatlin

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A good meat grinder like a butcher shop uses costs over a grand. I made a pretty good one by motorizing a no 32 enterprise hand crank. Did 20 pounds of pork butt in a minute. Just used a grain auger motor and a pillow block bearing to low her down. I have under a hundred in the set up. I think it will do my annual sausage pig in short order.

Here is a little video
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ByNARQ3S8dE
 
Put many a bowl of beef, pork and venison through a similar one when I was the size of your assistant or even smaller, and still can count to 10 with my shoes on. We used the motor off the hay elevator that Gramp would C-clamp to the board the grinder was bolted to and put it between two chairs. No switch, no belt covers, and no way it would pass muster with OSHA, but it's still being used today by a third generation.
 
I put a 1/4 hp motor on an apple grinder that I got this fall along with a press to make cider. It is not that fast, but it is much faster than doing it by hand and it did not cost anything to add the motor since I had a large pulley on hand to use on the hand crank shaft.
Zach
 
nice could use a guard just saying not hating
do you double grind you meat We did with deer last year lots nicer burger
 
We use a set up Dad made. He used a pulley on the grinder and belted it back to a 1/2" mandrel with pulley and just use a good 1/2" drill. Work's great, when done just detach drill. When I was young it was my job to hold the drill. Have ground a lot of sausage with it.
 
I made mine to bolt to the lathe bed and had any gearing I needed...I did buy a new grinder off ebay 3 years ago for around 200.00...nice heavy grinder and works great
 
Looks great Matt.

I did a similar thing with a big #2 burr mill and an old garage door opener motor. Used it to grind corn for my ducks and chickens.

I had a bunch of spare pulleys, but couldn"t slow it down where I wanted. I ended up using motor speed controller I had laying around too.

Its nice to see people can still piece things together and be fabricators.

Rick
 
Looks like a good setup. I like seeing things build out of whatever you have around.

I don't think I would have my young son throwing meat into the grinder. Watch how close he gets his fingers to the intake on that grinder. He will be called stubby if he accidentally throws just a little further into the grinder.
 
Good point, I think I'll fire up the forge and make an extension for the chute longer than fingers. I think generally we will work from the front and be clear of the wheel. I teach the boy some things in life are dangerous got to keep your wits around machines, guns animals and tractors.
 
This brought back a memory I had not thought of in many years. In the middle to late 50s we had a hand crank corn sheller that had a pulley on one side, not sure for what, but Dad belted an electric motor to it for shelling corn. One day when we needed to grind some sausage, Dad moved the sheller beside the concrete block around the well, and set the sausage grinder on it and tied the hand crank of the sausage grinder to it leaving enough slack to allow for the difference in handle lengths. Grinding sausage became easier with the electric motor turning the sheller which was turning the sausage grinder.
 
Put a bolt in with a jam nut where the handle bolt goes. Use a 1/2" drill. If the bolt breaks the jam nut will let you back it out. Just keep fingers out of it because no second time! Better than a belt because no bearing in the grinder for side load.
 
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