Meat grinder
#11
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 210
RE: Meat grinder
For $150 you can make a real good grinder.... Here's what I did. At Cabelas you can buy the #32 Meat Grinder for 79.99, go to Home Depot and get a pulley, a belt and a small 1/3 hp or 1/2 hp motor and a 4 foot 2 X 12all for less than 35-40 bucks.... put it all together and you have yourself a very impressive grinder.
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Slower Lower Delaware 1st State
Posts: 1,776
RE: Meat grinder
I've seen acouple of the home made grinders.Very impressive and simple setup.The guy that had the two I saw had ground up dozens of deer.He used old washer motors for power.
#13
RE: Meat grinder
I used to work part time for a neighbor that cut deer during the season and I learned how to cut and did my own. When He and his wife split up he sold out and I was back to square one..taking my deer to someone else and PAYING FOR IT!!!!...Not to mention that if you do it yourself you can customize your cuts and keep the meat MUCH cleaner. Processors generally do a great job, but they let a lot more fat,gristle, and yea...hair through than I ever would for myself. After all,when they'redoing hundreds of deer a seasonthey can't take the time to nit-pick. So I bought a small grinder, a hand meat saw, anda few food lugs and do my own. The main thing with your grinder is to keep the knives sharpand theplates true and flat. I'm fortunate enough to be a machinist by trade and do my own, but there are a lot of small machine shops out there that would do them reasonable enough. If you don't run anything through your grinder other than clean meat and fat, you should get a number of seasons of use before they need a touch up.I use a little mineral oil on the knife and plate when I set up so there is instant lubrication on the metal when you start up. And mineral oil is natural ( foodgrade )so it won't hurt anything. Coat the knife and plates with mineral oil after they are clean and dry and keep them in a zip-lock bag until next use......BPS
#14
RE: Meat grinder
Check this one out:
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=6970&productId=36989&am p;R=36989
It should get here today, so I don't know first hand. But putting 176 lbs. an hour throught any grinder has to be an improvement over the garage sale grinder I've been using!
***** have it on sale now!
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=6970&productId=36989&am p;R=36989
It should get here today, so I don't know first hand. But putting 176 lbs. an hour throught any grinder has to be an improvement over the garage sale grinder I've been using!
***** have it on sale now!
#15
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location:
Posts: 80
RE: Meat grinder
You could of got the 50$ grinder after thankgiving sale at cabelas. It actually is pretty nice. The only grinder I will ever use is a Kitchen Aid!!!! You can't feed meet fast enough through it. It also can be a wife's x'mas present, then it gives you a reason to buy it. This trick worked on my wife and now have a great grinder for myself. Maybe this year I will buy her a fishing pole.
#16
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 172
RE: Meat grinder
Just wanted to say that we bought a meat grinder at Costco for about $70 and so far it has been great. We did about 75 pounds of elk just this last weekend and it never once even flinched.
Only used it once so I don't know what it will stand up to over the next few years, but so far so good.
Only used it once so I don't know what it will stand up to over the next few years, but so far so good.
#17
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location:
Posts: 56
RE: Meat grinder
I had a home made grinder that a friend almost lost a hand in soI got rid ofit. My dad and I bought the big one that LEM had I think it has a size 32 plate and a big motor on it. It did cost 500 bucks on sale but we proccess about 15 whitetails a year with and it makes over 600lbs of sausage and burger a year for us so I dont regret getting it. This thing is built like a tank and I am pretty sure my grand kids will be using it long afterI am gone LOL!
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 122
RE: Meat grinder
ORIGINAL: game4lunch
Check this one out:
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=6970&productId=36989&R=3698 9
It should get here today, so I don't know first hand. But putting 176 lbs. an hour throught any grinder has to be an improvement over the garage sale grinder I've been using!
Bastards have it on sale now!
Check this one out:
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=6970&productId=36989&R=3698 9
It should get here today, so I don't know first hand. But putting 176 lbs. an hour throught any grinder has to be an improvement over the garage sale grinder I've been using!
Bastards have it on sale now!
You won't go wrong with this one.
Paul
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Slower Lower Delaware 1st State
Posts: 1,776
RE: Meat grinder
PA BOW,
If you still have that homemade grinder would you post a couple pics?
I'm seriously thinking of putting one of these together in near future.The #32 hand cranks are tough to find locally.
If you still have that homemade grinder would you post a couple pics?
I'm seriously thinking of putting one of these together in near future.The #32 hand cranks are tough to find locally.
#20
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Hells Canyon
Posts: 130
RE: Meat grinder
I've got a Rival (looks suspisciously like the $69 Cabelas special) that has had whole herds of animals ran through it over the years flawlessly. Is small and a little slow, but I'm not doing this professionally andspeed is not that important considering I don't grind meat that often.