John Deere Hammermill Questions

nh8260 · Jan 7, 2019

I found a John Deere #6 Hammermill for sale and I just don't know much about it, it turns over freely but I could not find the dust collector for it, just the bagger piece, they had it bolted to the floor and a very tall hopper on it, looks like the mill blew the finished product into another room. This was a really small hammer mill, being it turns to the right, could a person bolt or weld a pto shaft where the belt pulley is?? Didn't know if a tractor PTO would turn it fast enough. I didn't see any extra screens, the guy said they had extra screens but i couldn't find any. I can get this for under $50, should be worth that even if its not complete, agree????

rrlund · Jan 7, 2019

No,they won't turn fast enough. I had one way back when,that had been converted to a PTO. I don't know if Deere made the kit or if it was aftermarket. It had a big pulley with about six or so v belts and had a different pulley on the mill itself to accommodate the v belts.

Moonlite37 · Jan 7, 2019

Belt drive hammer mills are cheap and most have gone to scrap. For $100 I would sell A Letz burr mill with PTO drive and an auger to carry the groubd feed away to a wagon or a bin. It is factory made with two 15 inch tires. It is rusty because previous owner let it set out. It is shedded now and will work, Search Letz feed grinders, they were sold by John Deere dealers but were painted orange and I believe black trim. 20 horsepower is about right. I powered it with a B Farmall but previous owner powered with a McCormick W9 I live in southeast Missouri 100 miles south of StLouis

DoubleR · Jan 7, 2019

Like rrlund said, it probably wouldn't run it fast enough hooked up direct. I also had one, back when, mounted on a frame with a PTO hooked up to a smaller pulley with about 6 belts running to a bigger pulley on the mill. It worked pretty good though for just grinding a small amount of feed.

onefarmer · Jan 7, 2019

Here is a page out of a JD 10A parts manual of the factory pto drive. Just guessing if the small pully is still 4" the drive pulley must be 16 to 20".

onefarmer · Jan 7, 2019

Here's another view I found in the manual

Bob Bancroft · Jan 7, 2019

I think the stencil marks on my old hammer mill indicate 2200-3300RPM. It was originally flat belt driven. I converted it to PTO with a drive taken off an MC grain dryer which was converted to electric motor. I can't tell you the size of the pulleys without measuring them. It takes a 1000 RPM PTO to achieve speed. If I want a coarse grind, or to just crack grain, running much slower works, but the blower part then can't develop enough draw to take the material away. I think if it was set up so the material could just fall away by gravity, it would work.

nh8260 · Jan 7, 2019

Moonlite, can you open your e-mail or post a picture of the burr mill, i'm wanting something to make cracked corn with, i'm guessing your burr mill would do that?

Moonlite37 · Jan 8, 2019

m o o n l i t e 3 7 @ h-u-g-h-e-s. net remove spaces and hyphens. A burr mill grinds both ear corn or shelled corn well but cannot grind hay or corn stalks as a hammer mill can.

rrlund · Jan 8, 2019

That's the one!

caterpillar guy · Jan 8, 2019

I would have to measure it but our NH mill has about a 5or 6inch pulley on the hammer shaft and about an 16or 18 inch pulley on the drive end where the PTO hooks up to. So if those are right 540 x3 would be about 1600.

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