Need help figuring out what these are

[glockky]

I was looking to buy some an old hammer mill and what the guy says is a corn grinder. They both look old but I am unable to find a name plate on them to see who manufactured them.
I was hoping with some pics maybe someone recognized them. Thanks

[/url]https://i.imgur.com/ANmjLaQ.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/z98iswf.jpg

 

[glockky]

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[Mark-Ia]

Looks like the remains of a silage blower used to cut the stalks and blow them into the silo. Been converted from a belt drive ti pto drive.

 

[Leroy]

This picture is of a traveling table hammer mill. I cannot tell what make it is or condition. It would probably be a 15" or 18" wide feed mill and can be used for ear corn or small grains but designed more for grinding bales of hay for mixing in livestock feed. A hammer mill is a corn grinder. So is it only the one piece or are there more items not in picture? Either way the mill pictured would be from the 30's to mid-late 50's. And would have been flat belt powered.

 

[fastfarmall]

I never seen one,like that before, but it could be a GHEL brand, headquartered out of West Bend, Wisc.

 

[Leroy]

No idea who made them but they were sold in the Sears and Wards farm catalogs. Too big for around me as the mills around here were mostly 10" with some 7" as well.

 

[glockky]

The second picture may not have shown. He described it as a corn grinder. Offer me both for $300.

I was hoping to use the hammer mill to grind corn stalks and make some silage on a small scale.

Here s the pic of the grinder maybe the link will work this time.
https://i.imgur.com/ANmjLaQ.jpg

 

[Farmallb]

looks like alot of it isnt there

 

[Leroy]

The hammer mill WILL NOT MAKE SILAGE as SILAGE is WET and the mill requires DRY material to work. Second picture is a burr mill and is also a dry feed grinder but will not handle the hay like the first one will. The first would grind up corn stalks but they must be DRY and it would come out more like dust.

 

[glockky]

Would wet corn stalks cause the mill to plug? Seems like I ve heard of people using the hammer mills for grinding green corn stalks.

 

[randy hall]

Leroy is right you struck out for grinding anything green with those two. you need an old silo filler.

 

[glockky]

I may still pick them up to dry corn. I can buy gravity bed loads of shelled corn right off the combine from my neighbor.

 

[glockky]

I was thinking you could remove the screen on a hammer mill and get a rough chop on wetter material but I guess I was thinking of something else.

 

[Leroy]

The wet material would make it just like glue

 

[Leroy]

The hammer mill just has hammers to do the grinding. What you are thinking of and needing for green corn stalks is a chopper with knives to do the cutting and not hamers to beat the stalks apart. And the inbetween moisture stage they have to add water to keep the chopper or blower fron gluing the crop in the pipes.