Yeah, he’s trying to lure you into a $20k grinder you don’t need…
If you start at the top you’ll find
Which is what @FicklePickle was suggesting was appropriate for your scale….and is the gold standard as I learned it from the @SkunkyFarmers
If you’re running 40k lb of hemp through a centrifuge, or using CO2 to extract, you need a different solution…
We have our own version of the cutting mill so the processing volume has massivly increased from the origional versions.
They are labratory mills as a standard setup so we have just changed around some of the components to our own and we can get between 2-5lbs per minute manually fed and between 5-10lbs per minute with the feeder.
Im not gonna claim there arent other mills with higher throughput we just offer better controls for particle sizing and future integration of this equipment to be attached easily to other processing equipment.
Id actualyl advise against buying one of our mills if it was for BHO or for FF. Ive rarely come across anyone trying to mill with BHO unless they had some specific reason.
I have never had any good experiences with attempting to mill anything frozen. Its a quite complex task to complete without some kind of LN2 or CO2 injection into the cutting path to keep the chamber freezing and for what it costs its not worth it for cannabis. We have done it before in other industries like polymer/plastics testing.
As you have said its easier to either hand crush the flower or we have come across people using roller pins attached by springs that they could roll the bags through and crush the flower up.
We had a Pulverisette 19, but we were grinding material that already dried and cured and we were doing several hundred pounds an hour with it. We had no issues with clogging or anything like that. We had a few upgrades to it with a bigger hopper, etc… It put in some work and particle size we got was pretty consistent.
I actually felt like the price was worth it considering we had burned through like 5 cheaply made grinders. Could just be a YMMV situation and it’s probably completely material dependent.
We’re running a precious plastics shredder these days. It’s not bad.
Does decent volume - easily shreds faster than a worker can feed it if you’re running well bucked dry material.
The grind size isn’t ideal so we run everything through it twice.
The overall concept is sound though, so we’re going to a much larger purpose built unit on our next round of upgrades.
Two other option that I don’t believe have been posted here:
And something along the lines of Medium-Size Food Mill with 3 Graters – Winco
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