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Powered Grinder Automates Sausage-Making
“We used to spend several hours grinding meat by hand to avoid taking it to the locker and spending a couple hundred dollars to get it done,” says Gene Sickler. “After a few years of that we decided to build a power grinder to save our arms.”
  Sickler’s home-built meat grinder is driven by a 220-volt electric motor that powers a driveshaft through the transmission from a Datsun pickup. Sickler says, “To mate the two together I first torched off the outside of the transmission. Then I placed the inside of the clutch plate against a hub that fit the electric motor, and welded the two together. On the back of the transmission I cut the splined pipe out of the yolk that slid over the output shaft, then welded it to a 1-in. shaft. I put a gear on that shaft and connected it with no. 50 chain to the gear that runs the grinders.”
  Sickler has two grinders hooked to the motor. One of the grinders is chain-driven and the other is belt-driven with a tensioner lever. That lever also turns the grinder on and off. “We’ve used this setup for grinding several hundred pounds of meat every year,” says Sickler. “We’re always careful about sanitation, washing everything with a pressure washer, soap and a small amount of bleach. We lube the grinders with vegetable oil.”
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Eugene Sickler, 10309 23rd St. S.W., Manning, N. Dak. 58642 (ph 701 225-0395).



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2015 - Volume #39, Issue #2