Stationary Engine Hammer Mill

I have a idea brewing in my head that i think it would be neat to produce i am just a little curious if any one has any insight to how i am considering doing this ....

I found a old stationary engine probally off a 55 ih baler for around the sum of 200 dollars and a Gehl hammer mill for 300 dollars now my idea was to make a frame out of channel iron and put these two beasts together . I am just wondering if i try to keep it to its era and leave it belt driven or do i modernise it with a pto shaft with a ball slip clutch for safety reasons .. I would appreciate insight

(quoted from post at 11:19:23 07/07/11) I have a idea brewing in my head that i think it would be neat to produce i am just a little curious if any one has any insight to how i am considering doing this ....

I found a old stationary engine probally off a 55 ih baler for around the sum of 200 dollars and a Gehl hammer mill for 300 dollars now my idea was to make a frame out of channel iron and put these two beasts together . I am just wondering if i try to keep it to its era and leave it belt driven or do i modernise it with a pto shaft with a ball slip clutch for safety reasons .. I would appreciate insight

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That old hammer mill was designed to be driven at 540 R.P.M. That engine will spin at what, about 1,600 RPM? I think you will need to stay with the belt pulley system, or I guess you might be able to find a gear reduction gear box, but I think the cost of those gear boxes would be a bit prohibitive.

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(quoted from post at 11:19:23 07/07/11) I have a idea brewing in my head that i think it would be neat to produce i am just a little curious if any one has any insight to how i am considering doing this ....

I found a old stationary engine probally off a 55 ih baler for around the sum of 200 dollars and a Gehl hammer mill for 300 dollars now my idea was to make a frame out of channel iron and put these two beasts together . I am just wondering if i try to keep it to its era and leave it belt driven or do i modernise it with a pto shaft with a ball slip clutch for safety reasons .. I would appreciate insight

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That old hammer mill was designed to be driven at 540 R.P.M. That engine will spin at what, about 1,600 RPM? I think you will need to stay with the belt pulley system, or I guess you might be able to find a gear reduction gear box, but I think the cost of those gear boxes would be a bit prohibitive.

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I was considering a gear box to be put into the mix seems how my dad works for weasler . i am just wondering what would generate the most eye appeal for this

Is the Gehl belt driven from the PTO to the hammer-mill shaft like Dad's old IH mill? If so, I would do away with the PTO pulley and belt drive from the engine to the hammer-mill shaft using the proper pulley size on the engine to get the right speed. The IH had a pretty good speed increase from the 540 PTO to the hammer-mill shaft.
Baler engines were pretty low HP, so you may not be able to feed it very fast.

One other thing to consider is direction of rotation. A shaft out the back of an engine turns the opposite of a tractor PTO

If you are doing this to play with, will probably work ok. However if you are looking for performance you will need a bigger engine.

If you can find a PTO unit for the engine that would give you a clutch along with the correct rotation and gear reduction.

Output speed of the engine wont be fast enough to run the hamer mill so you will need pulleys and belts. The belt pulleys ran like 1200 rpms and the hammer mills pulley was always smaller then the tractor. So you will need to do some serious figuring when getting your speeds correct. Isnt any reason why it wont work if you get your speed down pat. Capicity wont be that great as the motor doesent have that mush HP unless its the engine for the A and B tractors. I have ground tons of feed with the B on the belt using old Montgomery Wards traveling table hammer mill Probably was a 7 in remembering the screens.Blew the ground feed around 15ft upstairs to the load-out bin and also the other bin that fed the self feeders. Had three chutes out of that bin so gravity would fill them. Load out bin was loaded onto flared box then hauled to the feild and scooped of into the feeders. Raised lots of hogs more in the summer out on pasture.

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I am just wondering if i try to keep it to its era and leave it belt driven or do i modernise it with a pto shaft with a ball slip clutch for safety reasons .. I would appreciate insight

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After re-reading this sentence, it sounds like your Gehl hammermill is not PTO driven as it now stands, but is a stationary mill... is that correct? If that is the case, it might be easy to just flat belt drive it if you can find the proper pulley ratio. We ground feed a few times with a Farmall C, but it was a struggle and you could not feed it fast.