Name/TitleHammer Mill
About this objectMade of steel, painted red, and also galvanised iron, this was used by the donor originally (1946-1948) with an oil engine and latterly with a 20 h.p. electric motor. Grain was fed into a hopper, by elevator, and knocked onto a screen inside the mill by a series of steel hammers rotating at high speed. The meal was then blown by a fan into the cyclone, from where it was blown round into the hopper which had two openings to which sacks were fitted by spring attachments. A shutter in the mouths of these funnels ensured that only one sack was filled at a time(the handle operating this shutter is broken). The mill ground half a ton of grain in an hour, and was used generally about once a week for feeding the donor's herd of beef cattle, c.40-50 head, using his own grain.The meal was then mixed with sugar beet pulp or pulp nuts. The donor gave up using the machine when he went out of stock in 1968, except for one occasion early in 1976, when he ground some barley for a neighbour. Length: 87.5cms.; Overall width: 116cms.; Height of funnel: 139cms.; Diameter: 64cms., at the top.
Medium and MaterialsSteel
Galvanised iron
MeasurementsLength: 87.5cm
Overall width: 116cm
Height of funnel: 139cm
Diameter: 64cm (at top)
Object Typemill hammer
Object numberSTMEA:76.A.35.2
Copyright Licence
Attribution - Non-commercial (cc)
