OT; pics years gone by.

If you remember I was telling you about our failed meat grinder powered by an electric drill,after our cheap (not really $ wise)plastic geared one gave up. I got busy and looked on the internet and found this one,NOT SO CHEAPY,lol, all metal gears.

It wasn't supposed to hit the door til tomorrow.When we talked to the individual who was doing the shipping, we asked them to be sure it was packaged extremely well, as we got tired of having stuff delivered to the door beat all to pieces. The grinder came in the carton with just one little thin scrape on the box. Inside the carton was the grinder surrounded by darafoam to fit the grinder and accessories. Not a mark on it. It's going to be used to do some extra grinding for sausage and stuff ( sausage pattys).

The picture of the antlers shows the big and little of them all, both 8 points. Years back I got the small one with the 300 winchester mag. When I asked the DNR why the antlers were so small, his reply was all the protein went to the body and very little to the antlers. Both deer were about the same weight and size.

I looked up a recipe in the book my Father had and it showed a recipe that we are going to try.
NOTHING FANCY,JUST SAUSAGE. The book the recipe came in has to be 100 yrs old by now,as I am 80 and it belonged to my Dad.

Thought a comparison was in order and we are going to try to repair the gears in the old Oster,tomorrows project. Use the Oster for berries and veggies and the big one for meat only.By the way, the recipe book shows a recipe for hosenpheffer (sp),like Bugs Bunny,lol and you have to use wild rabbit. Might try it lol.
Regards
LOU

That looks about the same size of a grinder my cousin has, not sure of the brand. Sure is nice and does a good job. I bet you will be happy with it.

The recipe for sausage looks very simple, like the addition of sage. I always thought sausage had a few more ingredients. Let us know how it turns out.

Not sure if this will work for you but I have done it a couple times with plastic gears in odometers and they ran for years until I sold the tractor. Build it up with epoxy and then file the teeth back in.

Lou, if you intend to grind those horns into some sort of aphrodisiac I'd be careful! Would hate to see you stuck in a rut!

Those antlers would look better if the scalp plates are covered in velvet. Covered mine with blue velvet; that looks nice.

Lou, you can get all your Oster parts from goodmans dot net or off Ebay. Plastic parts or not, the Oster was/is a great rig.