Meadows hammer mills are durable utility grinders capable of grinding most dry, free-flowing materials. Hammer mills operate on the principle that most materials will grind or crush upon impact with the hammers. The material is fed into a hammer mill from the top and gravity falls into the grinding chamber. The material is contacted by a series of rotating hardened hammers. The material is ground by repeated contact with these hammers, contact with the walls of the grinding chamber, and particle to particle contact. The material remains in the grinding chamber until it is suitably sized to pass through the perforated screen that covers the bottom half of the grinding chamber. We offer six (6) models in our line of commercial hammer mills. The output, or rate of production, of the hammer mill is dependent upon the screen size, shaft speed which is typically 3,600 rpm, and the configuration of the hammers. We offer hammer mills in a bottom discharge configuration (gravity disch