My "new" Dakota water powered sausage stuffer

[Gunslinger]

Well as you all know, I stripped the gears on my vertical stuffer and still can't find my metal gears and everyone else is back ordered. So I found this Dakota water stuffer on craigslist for 100 bucks. Offered the guy 50 and brought it home.
I'll do a full review when I have time and when I do some snack sticks. maybe even a video with my black S&M gloves. I know how you all love those gloves. But for now I have a freezer that is literally full of deer roasts that need ground and bagged. So I did about 100 lbs the other night and took a couple of pics.


Here is about 50 lbs ground and ready to pack.


This is the piston.




You have to grease the piston with vegetable shortening. This helps to both lubricate and seal it.


Filling up the game bags. Yes I know they are pork sausage bags, but I ran out of ground venison bags.








This stuffer worked great for this. Hopefully it works equally as well for snack sticks. I plan to try them after firming up in the fridge over night, just to see how well it does. That's a pretty good test for any stuffer.
I took around 35 minutes to do 100 lbs of ground deer, so not too bad.

[Mark R]

Wow,

I took around 35 minutes to do 100 lbs of ground deer, so not too bad.

is pretty quick! Cool. Any pics of the stuffer??

[Bassman]

That sure looks like it works good. I've heard of the Dakota but never seen one. Guess you got a good deal too.

[cajun_1]

Good Deal Gunny ...

[Richtee]

Probably faster than the cranker, eh?

Yeah stix are a serious test... drier meat, small tube...

[Fishawn]

Looks like it's working good for stuffing ground meat in bags & pretty dern quick also

[Scarbelly]

Nepas has one very similar to this one and raves about it

[michael ark]

Congratulations on your new stuffer.Nepas has a video on you tube on how to add a foot pedal controller to it.

[MossyMO]

Glad you got the stuffing operation under control Gunny, look forward to hearing how it works on sticks for you; sounds like a good buy and money well spent to this point!

[Meat Hunter]

Good deal Gunny. 50 bucks, man that's a steal. Look forward to seeing the snack sticks soon

[gwapogorilla]

I researched those when I was tired of stripping out my nylon gears too.But, I was too chicken to buy one. As far as the metal replacment gears for your stuffer...I wish you good luck. I made countless phone calls trying to find them, with no avail.

[Gunslinger]

I will have a full review of this in a bit. I think I'm going to like it more than the crank stuffer mainly because once you have the water valve turned on, you have both hands free to handle the sausage.

Congratulations on your new stuffer.Nepas has a video on you tube on how to add a foot pedal controller to it.

I have seen the foot pedal video and I may go that route.

I kicked around having one these built for several weeks and after crunching the numbers, even a brand new Dakota stuffer with all the trimmings, shipping and a warranty was a lot less. Not to take anything away from the builder, it looks like a great stuffer. I have a lengthy email exchange with him about it.

[merrell]

[QUOTE=Gunslinger;299392]I will have a full review of this in a bit. I think I'm going to like it more than the crank stuffer mainly because once you have the water valve turned on, you have both hands free to handle the sausage.

We all should need two hands to handle our sausage..........

[nepas]

If you have a 5 lb vertical stuffer with nylon gears and want metal.

You can get them from LEM

http://www.lemproducts.com/product/1..._Stuffer_Parts

You might want to call LEM and ask if they will fit Grizzly, Northern 5 lb verts.

[Beaver Camp Sausage Company]

I would suggest the foot control. I did not have one with mine. If I had I would have kept it. It can get away from you in a hurry if your not careful.