cheap Hopper Upgrade for Cereal Killer mill

[Sidman]

I have been doing 10 gallon batches and using somewhere in the 22 to 25lb grain bills. While I enjoy my cereal killer mill, it gets to be a pita to continually stop and feed more grain. In doing another project I ended up purchasing (5) 4.25 gallon HDPE containers. In this case it looks like it was a food service size mayo container. Turns out I had one left and after a thorough washing and sanitizing I realized it was a similar size as my mill hopper. Just cut a whole in the bottom and used two screws to temporarily hold in place when in use. Now the hopper holds about 25lb's of grain and I can disassemble quickly and put in a storage container for safe keeping.
I got all 5 of these containers for $35 on Ebay but it occurred to me that I have seen similar plastic tub formats for other things like cat litter.

 

[myndflyte]

Talk about cheap and effective. I like it.

 

[Oldskewl]

Need to find one of those containers. Sure would be nice to load up the hopper once and crush. Thanks for the idea!

 

[MaxStout]

Nice. I like the simplicity.

 

[Sidman]

Need to find one of those containers. Sure would be nice to load up the hopper once and crush. Thanks for the idea!

Here's the link to related items on ebay. I think my purchase was from the first seller on the list.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_nkw=5+Plastic+4+1/4+Gal-Square+food+grade+buckets-HDPE+2-Ropak-reuse-lids+free+SH&_id=352046408505&&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2658

 

[beerbomb]

Great idea, what do you use to power that BAD BOY?

 

[Sidman]

Great idea, what do you use to power that BAD BOY?

Right now I am just using a cheap corded drill. One of my next upgrades will be a motorized mill but that's down the road a bit.