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MattCatlin

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Hi Guys, I have been looking for a sorghum mill for a long time, they are hard to find and I've been thinking there isn't much to them, maybe I'll make one. The mule powered ones look like nothing more than two 6 inch or so rollers with gears that mesh at the top. If I can find some old cast iron gears 6 inches in diameter I'm thinking that I could put a shaft through some lath cutoffs and mount them in a frame.

I was thinking there has to be something in junk tractor transmissions that would work. I bet 7th gear out of a 4020 is about the right size, but the way 4th fits in there probably makes the hole too big.

Any search suggestions for gears about the right size?

thanks, this would give me something to do between fall apple butter making and spring maple tapping.
 
A few years ago my dad built one for the neighbor. He used roller chain and was powered by a hydraulic motor with a flow control valve. Works very well and gets used every year. I'll see if I can get a picture in the next couple days and post them. Seemed simple enough to build but he was a machinist for 50 years!
 
Two 6" rollers and one 12" roller. For the horse driven type. Old horizontal Mills in texas. Technically called Cain mills
 
I don't think you're near mid-missouri, but if you can, go to the Chillhowee Tractor show, in Chillhowee, literally in the exact middle of nowhere, then drive a long drive west, then up a lonesome gravel road, then turn right up a driveway. A real sorghum mill, operates every year. They sell pints of sorghum, just don't tell the board of health. ALso blacksmithing, from a nice family of smiths, a man who demonstrates all the various hay-barn-loft lifting devices, an old 1920 gas station, loads of old machinery, antique tractor pulls, good lunch, bowls of beans and cornbread and onions in evening, some crafts, barn full of old machinery.... apple-butter-making, with copper kettles. great show. Stay in Clinton mo. Couple of motels.
 
What I was trying to recommend is to go see the working sorghum mill at the mid-Missouri Chillhowee Tractor show.
 
I whipped this up just now. 1/2 inch plate. sealed ball bearing pillow blocks on big shaft (i inch).
6 inch rollers about 6 inches long. Drive the lower roller. Spring tension on the idler to keep tension. Use screw adjustment on each side with heavy springs to hold the clamshell together. Add shields and a drip pan. 5 inch sprockets. Build a mount that allows a pan to be placed under it. Jim
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I whipped this up just now. 1/2 inch plate. sealed ball bearing pillow blocks on big shaft (i inch).
6 inch rollers about 6 inches long. Drive the lower roller. Spring tension on the idler to keep tension. Use screw adjustment on each side with heavy springs to hold the clamshell together. Add shields and a drip pan. 5 inch sprockets. Build a mount that allows a pan to be placed under it. Jim
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Something that we don't see around here. We boil maple tree sap instead.
This explains it, the stuff is related to sugar canehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum
 
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