Bearcat Hammermill & Belts

[munjorroad]

My dad and I have my grandfathers old Bear Cat Hammermill which is complete with all the belts and was still working when it was put into storage. Does anybody still use these old pieces of equipment, or use them for antique farm shows? Hate to see it go for scrap iron. One of the tractor belts for it appears to be brand new.

 

[deere4040]

If I was a fabricator. Always looking for a hammer mill priced right but has to be pto. That one looks nice

 

[gmccool]

Yes I could use it to grind corn at our show. Where are you located. In fact I'm leaving the house in about 15 minutes and going to our club meeting tonight.

 

[munjorroad]

Yes I could use it to grind corn at our show. Where are you located. In fact I'm leaving the house in about 15 minutes and going to our club meeting tonight.

Located in Western Kansas.

 

[jon f mn]

I could really use one of the belts if you want to sell one.

 

[Gordy in Mn.]

jon f What size belt you looking for? Gordy on MN

 

[munjorroad]

I could really use one of the belts if you want to sell one.

Right now I'd prefer to keep it all together and not sell it piece by piece.

 

[jon f mn]

jon f What size belt you looking for? Gordy on MN

I need one to run a blower

 

[Gordy in Mn.]

jon f I have one I can part with. Gordy in Mn.

 

[jon f mn]

jon f I have one I can part with. Gordy in Mn.

That would be awesome. How much do you want for it?

 

[Centerplate]

My dad and I have my grandfathers old Bear Cat Hammermill which is complete with all the belts and was still working when it was put into storage. Does anybody still use these old pieces of equipment, or use them for antique farm shows? Hate to see it go for scrap iron. One of the tractor belts for it appears to be brand new.View attachment 150727View attachment 150730View attachment 150731View attachment 150732View attachment 150728

I am part of a group of guys that display at a local show and we have brought a Bearcat very similar to the one you have pictured. I am sorry, but do not have a photo in my picture files, but we did grind corn at the show with this mill.

 

[Texasmark]

Slightly off topic: When I bought this acreage I made into a farm, I had a lot of corn stalks and somehow I wound up with a belt driven hammer mill similar to the one in the picture. Local neighbor, who was a senior citizen and had lived here all his life, had a JD B with a pulley and 20' belt, offering to drive my mill. On the morning of the activity, he was here at 6 AM sharp ready to go.

We hooked the B up to the mill and got her going, making a lot of noise as it was spinning pretty fast. I'd take an armful of stalks, about 7' tall and toss them into the mill. It would load up, loosing maybe 20% of its unloaded RPMs, grunt a couple of times and come back up to speed ready for another bite of lunch.......

In the ability of it to do what I just said, I mentioned to the guy how I impressed I was, and he said that the design of the B (flywheel......heavy and spinning at PTO RPM) and the length of the belt, together they stored a lot of kinetic energy and when you toss a load in the hopper, that energy gets dissipated.

I was impressed.

 

[Gordy in Mn.]

That would be awesome. How much do you want for it?

Send me a direct message and we can talk. Gory in MN.

 

[munjorroad]

Anybody have any feedback on what this complete setup and/or just the belts are worth?
If I can't find someone interested in the entire package I may consider selling just the belts, but would really like to sell it all.

 

[moresmoke]

My opinion, which is worth what you are paying for it, just the red belt should fetch $150-200 at minimum. The mill, I would say $4-500, depending on the market in your area. Depends if there are people that want to grind their own feed for hobby livestock.

 

[moresmoke]

Slightly off topic: When I bought this acreage I made into a farm, I had a lot of corn stalks and somehow I wound up with a belt driven hammer mill similar to the one in the picture. Local neighbor, who was a senior citizen and had lived here all his life, had a JD B with a pulley and 20' belt, offering to drive my mill. On the morning of the activity, he was here at 6 AM sharp ready to go.

We hooked the B up to the mill and got her going, making a lot of noise as it was spinning pretty fast. I'd take an armful of stalks, about 7' tall and toss them into the mill. It would load up, loosing maybe 20% of its unloaded RPMs, grunt a couple of times and come back up to speed ready for another bite of lunch.......

In the ability of it to do what I just said, I mentioned to the guy how I impressed I was, and he said that the design of the B (flywheel......heavy and spinning at PTO RPM) and the length of the belt, together they stored a lot of kinetic energy and when you toss a load in the hopper, that energy gets dissipated.

I was impressed.

We had a 8” McCormick hammermill (don’t remember the number) set up on the barn floor with a jackshaft to run it off a tractor pto. With a steady feed of grain, it could put 130 hp on its knees.

 

[Texasmark]

We had a 8” McCormick hammermill (don’t remember the number) set up on the barn floor with a jackshaft to run it off a tractor pto. With a steady feed of grain, it could put 130 hp on its knees.

Well sir, surely that's the reason for the deliberate Kinetic Energy storage devices. My hammer mill was pretty large. I could toss in a couple of armfulls of corn stalks at a time.

 

[munjorroad]

My opinion, which is worth what you are paying for it, just the red belt should fetch $150-200 at minimum. The mill, I would say $4-500, depending on the market in your area. Depends if there are people that want to grind their own feed for hobby livestock.

Thanks for the feedback. I kinda figured the belts held more value than the mill itself.

 

[Texasmark]

Side note: I learned somewhere that the 2 cylinder JD tractors had the 2 cylinders to keep the huge flywheel spinning which was the source for engine torque. Also found it interesting that it went bam-bam......rest, bam-bam.....rest.......like the Harley....makes a unique sound and 2 rapid punches (I would think) gives you more torque output than one would get from the same engine if the bams were 180* apart but the flywheel keeps you from feeling the performance....but I never had a 2 cyl.....neighbors did.....so just out of idle curiosity, did JD or Harley come up with the idea or someone else and their work was just copied? Course the Harley didn't have room for the flywheel of that magnitude....obviously I'm just killing time, waiting for the dew to dry so I can get back to harvesting my hay.

 

[munjorroad]

UPDATE: I posted this for sale in the implement section if anyone is interested in purchasing.

https://forums.yesterdaystractors.com/classifieds/bear-cat-hammer-mill-belts.4992/