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Originally Posted by trularin
David, that is great to hear.
I have stopped the small game hunting. Too much to hunt for a single meal. My wife makes a great rabbit stew, but it takes a while to make enough to fill the pot.
I have a lot of boar, enough to be good for a couple of years, but I am thinking I should get a good brat mix.
We usually pack in 1 pound packs with the vacuum packer for the burger.
I think Bart has a good setup as he has access to a butcher shop.
So the harbor freight grinder works okay? How long have you had it? Our #32 is 30 years old. I just rebuilt the entire grinder and designed a nice controller for it.
Michigan rifle white tail starts Nov. 15th.
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Tru:
I can't find it on the Harbor Freight site, but here is the same one at Northern Hydraulics...
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/w...s%2Bmeat%2Bsaw
I have been having mine for at least 10 years now, maybe longer...when I bought it,it was about 175 bucks. it's not the best made unit (China,I'm sure), but for my use, does the job, the meat grinder works exceptionally well as the motor is a 1 hp unit. the grinder attaches to the side as seen in the photo and runs directly off the motor. You can drop fist size hunks of meat in it and it will not slow down..... About the largest thing you would want to cut up on the meat saw would be deer size hind quarters and it does it pretty good, it's not really big enough for anything much bigger..........
I use the meat grinder more than the saw part and love it, it would take a good size peice of bone to choke it down............I think it also comes with the sausage stuffer, not sure, but I don't like making my sausage with the grinder part, I find it re-grinds the meat too much and makes it into a semi-paste, we like our sausage coursely ground as our ground meat... The grinder comes with 2 or 3 different size grinding attachements and I only use the most course one..........
The grinder attaches to the side with a set screw and is easily removed and taken apart for washing, the rest of the unit, I just hose off after use with the water hose to get the biggest part of stuff out of it, then wash by hand with soap and water..........
David