First run at making sausage.

[scarbelly]

Those are all great ideas - now if I can talk Bear into making me one of those boards I will be a happy camper

 

[mossymo]

Not the fact that it is manual, just that it is so darn big. I had no idea how big a 32 was. There's alot of meat left in the auger that doesn't want to go through. Perhaps my meat wasn't cold enough. I had the auger in the freezer right up until i started grinding. i figured that much cast iron would hold some cold for a while. The knife could be made a little better. I'll get an electric in due time..

You can add a motor to your manual grinder, here is a link to how I made mine - http://www.sausagemania.com/grinder.html

I used a 3/4 horse motor with a #32 grinder, here are a few pics of my end project -