so after having a few years with it....is it holding up well? I dont mind the buy once cry once mentality if things are worth it for the long term. I like the idea of having two hands free and not needing to clamp down the stuffer to the counter and manually crank it.
We have the same stuffer only the 30 pound model. Same motor and everything just taller. This year as of last weekend 1600 pounds went through it and 1 more group to go next weekend. 225 pounds was done in under 2 hours and that was with 4 different seasonings so there were a few where the stuffer wasn't full. If it were all the same seasoning and could stuff straight through full every time 90 minutes could be done. Last year we had over 4000 pounds of meat went through it between hogs and deer/pork combined. The stuffer has not missed a beat with absolutely zero problems. The only hiccup we have run into was a few weeks ago. We were doing 19mm snack sticks with high temp cheese. We did all grinding/mixing on a Friday and left the meat in the cold side of the shop overnight. It was single digit temps that night and the meat was starting to partially freeze and the stuffer would not push it. Now you wouldn't want to do this if you were curing the sticks but these were going to cook so we added about a quart of warm water per 50 pounds and mixed it and then it ran fine. If you have ever hand cranked the small sticks then you understand the forces it takes to push it out even with gear reduction, add it being partially frozen and I don't know if I could turn it being 6'1 235. I am a concrete finisher so my arms/wrists have good power but I feel like popeyebafter cranking out 100 pounds manually. That same frozen meat fed fine into 1 3/4"x24" casings that were smoked and hung to cure. Overall it is an investment but one that has been well worth it to us. The 12 pound gear reduction stuffer we used before worked but it is easily twice if not 3x slower. Doing snack sticks is a 3 person job manually cranking, this makes it a 2 person job while stuffing sausage in pretied casings is to me a 2 person job minimum cranking manually, with this stuffer it can be done by 1 man and still quicker than manually cranking even doing your own hog rings. If you have somebody clipping the rings for you then you can damn near stuff as fast as they can clip and put in the transportation tub for the smoker. Hope that helps!
Still works great , I use the motor every season making sausage or summer sausage only one thing not 100% duty cycle , it’s 60/40 duty cycle it has a breaker switch, so you cannot overheat it
