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Originally Posted by CajunMade

I only paid $186.00 for entire unit, so please take that into consideration.

The saw was more of the problem. It oftened left it's track, even when cutting only meat, as opposed to small bone. This would then require a complete take down of the upper unit to repair. Also, when this isssue happen, it generally caused meat residue to get inside the wheel system which operated the saw blade. This obviously caused a cleaning nightmare and cleaniness issues on subsequent uses.

The grinder itself worked fine, but it was impossible to feed the system more than one piece (approx. 2" x 6") of pork/venison at one time because of the location of the intake hole. That hole is located right near the entire cabinet of the unit, which then prevents you from adding a tray of some sort to accept more than a few ounces of product at one time.

Finally, the housing (cabinet) which held the grinder and saw was cheaply built, which made clean-up a major project.

But again, I paid less than $200.00.

I have a large family with many hunters and we still all process at our grandparents. The larger Cabelas models have worked perfectly for us as to grinding meats. As to cutting bone, we now use a battery operated recpr saw.

Hope this helps!

ok, thanks. we're doing like y'all are and using a portable saws all and cabelas grinder. guess i'll keep doing it like this untill i can see one of these saw/grinders in person. thanks again.