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Anybody know anyone who restores ceeam separators |
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dr p
Orange Level Joined: 24 Feb 2019 Location: new york Points: 1134 |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2023 at 8:21pm |
Got my grandfather's McCormick cream separator. Electric motor was dead, had it built and now it makes ton of foam. Asked a couple of amish machine shops in the area, but they didn't have a clue
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shameless dude
Orange Level Joined: 10 Apr 2017 Location: east NE Points: 13611 |
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slow it down?
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Lars(wi)
Orange Level Access Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Location: Permian Basin Points: 7081 |
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I know this may seem like a silly question but, are you using fresh raw milk?
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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dr p
Orange Level Joined: 24 Feb 2019 Location: new york Points: 1134 |
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Not a silly queztion but yup. Maxing out the bulk tank but not enough to justify every day pick up
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jaybmiller
Orange Level Access Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Greensville,Ont Points: 22264 |
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curious was I.. googled McCormick cream separator. found 500,000 hits....looked at 20-30...none with motors i suspect yours was 'upgraded ? and yes too fast = foam.... so... slow down,... you're movin too fast, you've got to make the mornin last.. just.... |
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Pat the Plumber CIL
Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Springfield,Il Points: 4760 |
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My father's right arm was larger than his left arm. He hand cranked our cream separator every day with excess milk that he could not sell .kept the cream in a 10 gallon can and would make butter or sell the cream to an ice cream factory in Decatur. Electric cream separators? My father would say you were living in tall cotton if you had one of those.
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You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails
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Lars(wi)
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You need to get some swine. Feed(slop) the excess to them. |
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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Pat the Plumber CIL
Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Springfield,Il Points: 4760 |
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My father fed the skim milk to the hogs after taking the cream out with the separator.
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You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails
1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
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darrel in ND
Orange Level Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Location: Hebron, ND Points: 8623 |
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You're preaching to the choir there Pat! I know this is irrelevant to Dr p's original post, but if I had a nickel for every revolution that I cranked a cream separator, I'd be rich! And we fed the skim milk to the hogs. Rigged up an elaborate (by our red neck standards) feeding system so we could dump the skim milk into a large container outside of the hog pen (so the hogs wouldn't run us over) and then it went into the hog trough through a pipe. The one year that we did that, my brother took three hogs to the county fair, came home with four trophies and 150 bucks per hog on the sale! 45 years ago, that was some good money!
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Dakota Dave
Orange Level Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: ND Points: 3935 |
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I hand cranked ours every morning. 60 rpm at the crank to fast and it would foam. I'd speed up to about a 100 rpm and put my cup under the cream spout and get a cup of warm cream foam at the end every morning. Ours was a McCormick it had a shelf at the bottom to add a motor but Id never seem one with a motor installed. We hauled milk in cans and cream and seperated milk were worth about the same as the equivalent whole milk without the extra work. In the past they used to get payed a lot more for cream.so there were still a few cream cans in the milk house. Cream cans are about half the size of milk cans. We put the cans in a water cooler fed by an artisan well and cooled them.
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dr p
Orange Level Joined: 24 Feb 2019 Location: new york Points: 1134 |
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some things never change. I am giving the milk to my neighbor. He won't take if with out being run through the separator, says it makes the pig fat too soft
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dr p
Orange Level Joined: 24 Feb 2019 Location: new york Points: 1134 |
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it is a 4 f
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DiyDave
Orange Level Access Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Gambrills, MD Points: 51369 |
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I'm wondering if something got re-assembled wrong or wired wrong as you say the motor was what you had work done to... Look for reversed motor spin (wire it up t'other way and see what happens!) or the pump impeller installed improper, or worn through.
My entire experience comes from memory of the one my grandmother had up until the late 80's, think it were a monkey wards brand... And, yes, we slopped hogs with 5 gallon buckets, skim milk, buttermilk and the liquid left from cottage cheese. Plus all household scraps, 2 buckets in the morning and 2 in the evening! 800+ feet carry and hadda open the cattle gate! For alla that and feeding about 20-30 head of cattle, chasing the milkers in 2x a day, mucking out pig pens and cow stables, and baling hay, grinding feed, shoveling snow up hill both ways etc etc etc. AND we hadda ask grand-dad for the $1.00 a day he "paid" us monthly!
Edited by DiyDave - 26 Jan 2023 at 5:42pm |
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200Tom1
Orange Level Joined: 03 Jun 2019 Location: Iowa Points: 1202 |
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The first 1 I remember was an IHC with a electric motor. Something happened in the gears one night , the darn thing exploded on dad. He went to town the next day and bought a new deLavel. We used it until he turned the milk cows out with the stock cows, sometime after I went to the army. Mom took those plates apart every day and washed them up. We sold cream to the creamery, that check paid for our student school lunch and grocery's. He also bought a deLavel bucket milking machine. But when he bought the south farm, he left it in the barn on the north farm. He had 3 boys to help him do the milking after school. It was the only job on the farm I detested.
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WF owner
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I vaguely remember my grandparents using a separator. IIRC. I think they always separated warm milk. Not sure if there was a reason, but I know the milk they were separating never went in the (can) milk cooler.
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