Roller Mills

[TFF]

Question from Email:

"Hi. I am looking for a roller mill, there is a Dangri make they don't come PTO drive but they say would sell one with out the electric motor so i thought i could put a pto drive shaft on if would it stand a pto drive."

 

[Drillman]

Superior Machines | Fridaythorpe | Superior Machines Ltd

Superior Machines Ltd. is a manufacturer of British made bruising and crimping mills, also continuous flow rolling mill/mixers. Supplied both mobile and fixed units, with PTO or electric drive.

www.superiormachines.net

 

[balerman]

Alvan Blanch make one specifically for a PTO shaft,well made as well.

 

[Dave W]

Are Fraser still going? They made loads of pto mills.

I wouldn't want to be converting an electric version to pto.

 

[jamesy]

Are Fraser still going? They made loads of pto mills.

I wouldn't want to be converting an electric version to pto.

No, but there’ll be a good few kicking around secondhand. I traded mine in a number of years ago & didn’t get much for it & the dealer struggled to sell it on

 

[7610 super q]

* Thread Hi-Jack alert *

My Hunt roller mill ( 7" rollers ) struggles to do 1 ton in 6 hours.
This can't be right ? Thought it would at least do 1 ton / hour ?

 

[Dave W]

* Thread Hi-Jack alert *

My Hunt roller mill ( 7" rollers ) struggles to do 1 ton in 6 hours.
This can't be right ? Thought it would at least do 1 ton / hour ?

Sounds like the rollers want a skim and re groove. Should p!ss a ton/hr

 

[jamesy]

My Fraser was 7” & would of done a ton an hour no bother

 

[Tim G]

Barley too dry?

 

[7610 super q]

Barley too dry?

I was wondering that. It's 15.5%. I'd like to try some at 17%, hopefully they'll come out like pennies, rather than ground up ?

 

[Homesy]

I was wondering that. It's 15.5%. I'd like to try some at 17%, hopefully they'll come out like pennies, rather than ground up ?

Being higher in moisture will help and give you less dust and a flat grain rather then milled. However you should be able to do more a ton in 6hrs. Have you checked the gap between the rollers ? If you have a manual it should tell you the gap. If not as close as you can but not touching, like 0.2mm or the like.

 

[7610 super q]

Being higher in moisture will help and give you less dust and a flat grain rather then milled. However you should be able to do more a ton in 6hrs. Have you checked the gap between the rollers ? If you have a manual it should tell you the gap. If not as close as you can but not touching, like 0.2mm or the like.

I was kindly sent a manual for a smaller Hunt mill, and it said to wind it up till rollers are touching, then back it off 1/4 of a turn. Maybe I need to set the rollers closer.

 

[balerman]

I was wondering that. It's 15.5%. I'd like to try some at 17%, hopefully they'll come out like pennies, rather than ground up ?

Theres a clue in your reply,if you want it to come out like pennies you have to slow it right down,only needs to be cracked,open it up a bit.

 

[mixed breed]

Im currently running a bentall 8inch, in its previous life it was driven by a large 3phase motor. Lack of 3phase here so I removed the pulley and sourced a keyed Pto yolk through kramp iirc.

Works a treat, I run it just above tick over in 1000rpm. Makes the auld db885 cough but she will easily put 2.5 ton threw in an hour.

It could be both rollers on the op's machine are "driven" (as they do that sort of thing) but, if not I cannot see why it couldn't be converted in the same way...

 

[Exfarmer]

Depends what you are trying to achieve, there is absolutely no need need to roll to the size of an old penny, unless you are selling it.
Always used to set up ours to always at least crack every grain, ( fairly tight for some 6 row barley )
it is very easy to grind grooves in one roller , do it on the angle, preferably following the old grooves before they disappear
not too deep and always reset the rollers after as they will need to be tighter obviously
use an angle grinder with a fairly narrow disc

 

[Yale]

Im currently running a bentall 8inch, in its previous life it was driven by a large 3phase motor. Lack of 3phase here so I removed the pulley and sourced a keyed Pto yolk through kramp iirc. View attachment 835125
Works a treat, I run it just above tick over in 1000rpm. Makes the auld db885 cough but she will easily put 2.5 ton threw in an hour.

It could be both rollers on the op's machine are "driven" (as they do that sort of thing) but, if not I cannot see why it couldn't be converted in the same way...

Obviously you took the guard off to show us the coupling?

 

[2manycows]

@7610 super q
Try putting a 1cwt of course grit sand through it.
We recently had the rollers on our murska 350 mill skimmed and when we first put it back together it would have taken for ever to do a tonne, after putting some sand through we are up to nearly 4 tonnes a hour