rigging up grain grinder

spent today moving the grain grinder to a different chop house, the other old log biulding i am going to push it down, all rotten now. it was actually bought from the T.Eaton co. department store from winnipeg. canada. it did have the sticker on it also, and its about a 70 year old unit. tommorrow gonna grind some wheat for the neighbors turkeys. got it all mounted on planks and lag screwed to the floor and the super w6 didnt pull it out the door on the trial run, so its all good for tommorrow. run it with a 120 ft endless belt. i used to load up the 1/2 ton full of barley by hand about 50 bushels and then grind it for the cows and pigs when i was in my teens. that was my job.

I guess thats what they called a burr grinder. I never used one of those. I had a Wetmore hammer mill that I used to have lagged down to the barn floor, right outside the grainery door. I could run a 4 inch auger into it. Powered my hammer mill with my W4 using an endless flat belt. Seeing your W6 belted up, sure reminds me of seeing my old W4 doing the same basic job. Thanks for sharing your photo

Any idea where or how the origin of calling it ..chop.. came from? I know rusty6 another Canadian uses the same name. On our farm in Kansas we called it ..feed.. or ..ground feed.. I believe in more specific terms dairies or feed lots would refer to it as ..ground ration.. We raised hogs, had a cow/calf herd and fattened 15 -25 feeders every year. Through the years we had a several New Holland grinder mixers, usually the M I now have was hooked to them. The rations usually had a small square bale or so of alfalfa, some salt and other minerals, some oats and feed supplement usually Moormans brand, sometimes some soybean meal or bran. Then filled will milo ..some call sorghum.. all grains were run through the hammer mill. The NH mills came along in the 70s when my dad and uncle joined together and took over the farm from my grandfather. They put up a confined 17 sow farrowing house and that is when we started raising hogs in greater numbers but small scale compared to todays operations. Before that my grandfather had a belt drive IH hammer mill which I remember scooping grain into a few times. It had a feed table that you could easily scoop ear corn into. After that he bought a mill someone put together on a 52 1 1/2 ton Chevy truck. The roller mill and mixer on It ran off the transmission PTO.

Chop, always referred to grain that was ground fine like flour. Compered with rations made with rolled or cracked grain. We didnt like feeding fine ground grain or chop to cattle, because it passed through them too quickly. Non rumen critters like chickens and hogs, did well on chop.

Ground feed was anything put thru a hammer mill if grain or forage and screen could be from 1/8 inch to 1 inch or run without a screen. Bur mills not enough around to ever sew one. Roller bill for making rolled oats like you used in the kitchen. Only grain for grinding was corn or oats. Neighbor did raise rhy for his hogs but have no idea how he fed it. Cattle 1 inch hammer mill screen for ear corn for cows, 1'2 inch for hogs in sheled corn, 1 inch in hay for in hog feed.

Do you put any protection between the tractor front tire and the drive belt to keep it from occasional cutting of tracks in the tire?

Most tractors no need for anything like that, belt was far enough away no way it would hit the tire. Few standard tread tractors that were close enough and that was mostly the old ones on steel wheels.

(quoted from post at 13:30:49 10/04/23) Most tractors no need for anything like that, belt was far enough away no way it would hit the tire. Few standard tread tractors that were close enough and that was mostly the old ones on steel wheels.

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It would be a problem on the John Deere AR. I was going to try my AR on the hammer mill one time but the pulley on the tractor is low enough that the belt would hit against the tire so I never did get to run it. Not a problem on the Cockshutt 50. If you recall the John Deere D had two holes in the front axle so it could be mounted a bit offset from centre for increased clearance between tire and belt.

(quoted from post at 08:19:56 10/03/23) Any idea where or how the origin of calling it ..chop.. came from? I know rusty6 another Canadian uses the same name.

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In fact even the machine itself is known as a "chopper" here. I have accumulated several of them over the years but have not used one yet as long as the hammer mill keeps working. On the Case mill we used to change screens using about a half inch hole screen for oats and the big one, about 2 inch hole, for straw and hay. We nearly wore out that finer screen on oats. Since I got that International hammer mill I only use the square hole screen that it came with for oats and it still chops the oats up pretty good.
Heres a shot from 2012 of the Cockshutt 40 on the IH hammer mill.

We had a JD AR but only got it after no longer using the hammer mill. I don't remember
anouther JD AR in the country. Or any other standard tread tractor like that. All wide
fronts were row crop tractors. Only other standard tread tractors were a 1926 Fordson
and a 10-20 International that left in 1948. Just remembered there was a late model JD
D.

(quoted from post at 21:37:12 10/02/23) spent today moving the grain grinder to a different chop house, the other old log biulding i am going to push it down, all rotten now. it was actually bought from the T.Eaton co. department store from winnipeg. canada. it did have the sticker on it also, and its about a 70 year old unit. tommorrow gonna grind some wheat for the neighbors turkeys. got it all mounted on planks and lag screwed to the floor and the super w6 didnt pull it out the door on the trial run, so its all good for tommorrow. run it with a 120 ft endless belt. i used to load up the 1/2 ton full of barley by hand about 50 bushels and then grind it for the cows and pigs when i was in my teens. that was my job.
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I have two of those and you answered what brand they were. Been years since they've been used.