Sausage Stuffer Recomendations

[DeBitesOn]

I'm looking for recommendations for a top quality durable sausage stuffer. I've had the Cabela's 20 lb. "commercial grade' stuffers (both the green and the new black models) and after 3 failures in 5 years, I need to find something else. Cabelas is good at standing behind the product and replacing it, but little good that is when you're broke down in the middle of 200 lbs of sausage and it's 10:00 in the evening. Appreciate your suggestions.

[Pooh]

Find an old cast iron one. Pretty fool proof, and near indestructible

[NoWiser]

I'm looking for recommendations for a top quality durable sausage stuffer. I've had the Cabela's 20 lb. "commercial grade' stuffers (both the green and the new black models) and after 3 failures in 5 years, I need to find something else. Cabelas is good at standing behind the product and replacing it, but little good that is when you're broke down in the middle of 200 lbs of sausage and it's 10:00 in the evening. Appreciate your suggestions.

Yup, the exact same thing happened to us this year! Luckily we had friends close by with one we could borrow. We returned the green one and they gave us one of the black ones and said the problem had been fixed. We'll see, I guess, but it doesn't sound like it from your post.

We have an old cast iron one that seems bulletproof. It just doesn't have the capacity we need, though, when we are cranking out a couple hundred pounds of everything from pepper sticks to breakfast sausage to bologna.

[DeBitesOn]

I have an old small cast iron enterprise stuffer, but need more capacity for the bigger projects. If I could find one of the larger horizontal cast iron stuffers I'd jump on it.

The Cabelas new black model is a little stronger than the green. It did very well on summer sausage, bologna, & brats. But if you do a lot of weiners or pepper sticks (small tube) it's not going to hold up much better than the green. We followed the directions, sprayed Pam on the inside of the cylinder, extra water in the mix....but 175 lbs of weiners and pepper sticks was too much for it.

[LindellProStaf]

I just bought a LEM. I was told that no matter what brand it is if it has plastic gears they will eventually break. The one I just bought is all steel gears. First one I have owned so am excited to use it.