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dogtuk:
if you find out that you enjoy making sausage you are gonna want to go bigger the one horse is gonna be just fine the 1.5 is my dream grinder someday i will get one but i do a lot of sausage
i have used the 1.5 from cabellas and the 1.75 there isnt much diff in the two i have not used the 1 hp but i am sure it is a great grinder like the bigger mods
i will be glad to help you get started making sausage if you got any more questions just ask i will try and help

huey

robb92:
I would check out the sausage maker, they have good deals every now and then, I have a #10 grinder that I got from them and I also have the 5 pound stuffer and they make life easier when I am grinding meat up, while I am bonign out a deer , my daughter is grinding it up and putting it into 1lb game bags.

GoldTip:
Bean Counter, sorry I never responded to your question sooner, just found the thread again.  Yes, the one I use is simply called " Cabela's Commercial Grade" and I have the 1hp.  I grew up having a butcher shop straight out of a Safeway store at my house, so I was used to using the 3hp truly commercial grinder.  To be honest, the difference I have found with the bigger grinder versus mine is #1 Price, and #2 a bigger hopper.  One single day last year my buddy and I ground the burger trimming for one elk, half a moose and two deer.  It was a long day, but we put something like 400lbs of meat through the thing.  It ran through it with ease, to be honest you can't feed it meat as fast as it will grind it.  It's pretty damn impressive.  For what you've described your going to do, I would go with the 1hp.

Bean Counter:

--- Quote from: GoldTip on August 07, 2008, 06:44:08 AM ---Bean Counter, sorry I never responded to your question sooner, just found the thread again.  Yes, the one I use is simply called " Cabela's Commercial Grade" and I have the 1hp.  I grew up having a butcher shop straight out of a Safeway store at my house, so I was used to using the 3hp truly commercial grinder.  To be honest, the difference I have found with the bigger grinder versus mine is #1 Price, and #2 a bigger hopper.  One single day last year my buddy and I ground the burger trimming for one elk, half a moose and two deer.  It was a long day, but we put something like 400lbs of meat through the thing.  It ran through it with ease, to be honest you can't feed it meat as fast as it will grind it.  It's pretty damn impressive.  For what you've described your going to do, I would go with the 1hp.

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GT, Thanks for the reply.  The story helps as it is likely the upper end of how much meat I am likely to grind.  If I'm able to kill 2x deer, 1x elk, and a bear to boot, I'll be happy to stand in the kitchen grinding all day.  It sounds as though the 1hp will be plenty for me.  Fortunately this will be a relatively easy expenditure to justify to the Mrs. because we're pretty young and I have many hunting seasons ahead of me of processing my own game. Should pay for itself over time.   

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Kanooper:
I bought the Cabela's 3/4hp grinder last year.  Think I paid like $300 for it, but man it works good.  I made some burger and sausage from a deer last year in 5 pound batches, 20/80, and I swear I had a 5lb. batch of meat ground up in less than a minute.  I couldn't feed the machine fast enough.  Looking forward to giving it some more use this year.

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