Homemade Meat Grinder

Homemade Meat Grinder Mark Froemming automated his meat grinder using an old garage door opener. “No safety features, just common sense,” says Froemming. The idea came from grinding meat by hand every year and from looking at store-bought electric grinders, without being able to justify the cost of one given how little it would be used. Froemming welded legs to the original garage door opener base and welded a holder to clamp on the hand meat grinder. “My grinder is an old store-bought hand grinder that my grandpa used back in the day. I removed the hand crank and fabricated a drive shaft from old steel nuts. One end connects to the motor shaft with two set screws; the other end attaches with a cross pin for easy removal. “My cost was the time it took me to find all the pieces I could repurpose from junk I collected. The hand grinder has been used for at least 20 years, and the only things I had to replace were the meat auger and blade because a wooden spoon got sucked in when I was poking at the meat,” says Froemming. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Mark Froemming (dwdguns@gmail.com).

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