Optimal hammer design and placement will provide maximum contact with the feed ingredient. Hammer mills in which the rotor speed is approximately 1,800 rpm, should be using hammers which are around 25cm (~ 10 inches) long, 6.35cm (~2.5 inches) wide, and 6.4mm (0.25 inches) thick.
For the labor union, see International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Teamster driving a team of six horses at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. A teamster, in modern American English, is a truck driver, or a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a labor union in the United States and Canada. Originally, the term teamster referred to a person who drove a team of draft animals, usually a wagon drawn by oxen, horses, or mules.
Teamsters, Afl-cio Kiss And Make Up. October 25, 1987|By James Warren, Chicago Tribune. MIAMI BEACH â The Teamsters Union, expelled from the AFL-CIO 30 years ago for corrupt practices, was taken back Saturday in a reconciliation whose swiftness would impress even a jaundiced marriage counselor.