Meat Grinder

[merseybluenose]

Have been thinking about getting a mincer/meat grider to make up burley at home, has anyone got one they could recommend in terms of size or brand? Are the cast iron ones on ebay (about$50-$60) worth it??? Would be wanting to shove small boned fish and other bits of shit i.e. pesky grinners in whole chunks through it......

[mattooty]

I picked an old one up from the markets for about $15. It shreds anything up into a mincey consistency. Only thing I don't put through it is squid or occy as they're to tough for them to mince down and usually end up with me dropping parts over the side while I pull it apart. Great for burleying up bait while offshore and making up burley blocks at home. When out on the water mine has an attachment that I can just tighten onto any of the rails on the boat.

[merseybluenose]

When you say an old one does it have a brand or what it is made out of.....size?

[Crunchy]

I bought one once from one of those Asian "sell everything" stores...cheap but solid and did the job ( years ago so long gone but I wouldn't be too worried about the brand)

[Giffo65]

I bought one from a fishing tackle shop in Tweed Heads, Anglers Wharehouse in Wharf street, before christmas,is a super size one,cast aluminium.it has cutting blades before the holes at the end.I have put mackeral frames,offal and old pillies through it and froze them into a burley ice block with some chain frozen into it to hang over the side.Better than the old food processor I got at a garage sale to do the same job.

[mattooty]

No brand, just cast aluminium.

[Giffo65]

Attachment 80741Here is a pic with a dead stubby for size comparison.Attachment 80740

[garman1]

i bought the new version of the "olden days" hand grinder and the new style has small mincer holes and blocks up. The "old" ones used to grind up anything you wanted to put in it, meat/fish/rocks/brick................

[theangryangler]

I have used hand grinders elec grinders and a commercial mincer in my berley making escapades...
Now i use the missuses food processer!!! a sunbeam thing i think. as i use a lot of prawn shells/heads in
my burley i found they jammed up a lot in the mincers but the FP shreds them to bits every time
I get 5kg of chook pellets few kg of diced up frames shells and 1L of tuna oil mix it altogether
in a big box then freeze individual lots in freezer bags... works a treat
(just make sure you clean the food processer well or its trouble from the boss)
YOU USED IT FOR WHAT!!!!!!