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It works beautifully. You can see it being used in the following video.  (Skip to 5:01)
Homemade Parmesan

That is awesome! What a setup you have there!! Is there a reason you chose that over get a cheese vat?

Where did you get that whisk?

As I read more posts, I find more questions.
Great curd Cutter Wayne, I am knocking it off using a SS yard stick and SS wire we use for our bee nests.
What do you use for milling those large amounts of Curd?
I tried Sailor's Egg Crate idea and made the mill below using those principles and then wove same SS wire.
This works fine for small amounts, but I can see that when I have a 100 or 300 liter batch, it is going to take too long to mill slabs with this.
Is there a mechanical cheddaring mill available for this scale?

Also, my first 2.5Kg Cheddar about ready to vacuum. 

If anyone is looking for a small scale curd cutter I use a stainless steel cake rack, it fits my 10 liter pot neatly, cuts horizontally, then vertically and finally push it down from the top. Three swipes & its done. Might be able to get bigger ones in catering shops. I know its not as sharp as wire but if the curd is firm it works.
Lee

Coffee Joe, Linuxboy posted a nice commercial mill in a thread somewhere. I am sure it would be under the cheddar forum. I'll look and see if I can find it. When we mill our 24 gallon batches, it is "all hands on deck". My five oldest kids and my wife and I all brandishing knives. We look like seven samurai trying to mill the curd before it cools. 

You mean the manual one I posted, JD? Jaap Jongia, who now posts here, makes that manual one

I can't remember but I think that was it. Do you still have the link?

The manual "Curd Mill"in the photo above is a knockoff of Jaap Jongia's with some input from Sailor's egg crate etc and does a great job for a 25 liter batch. Even the double 50 liter batch we managed ok. I'm wondering if there is a small true mill that I could crank or even motorized for when I get to 50Kg+/batch of curds. The ASTA  big electric unit is way too big and $5500.

I'm trying to figure out a long term solution to a future problem!

Here is the thread I was talking about. I want something like the lady in the pic Wayne posted is using. Where do you find that? Isn't that what you are looking for?

Joe, those motorized mills do get rather expensive. Cheapest I've seen one is around $1,500 for an older unit that needed a good cleaning job. Maybe you could find one from a surplus/used dairy supplier like Ullmers?

Farmer's link as posted above is the nuts!
This is what I am looking for as well, now to figure out where to get one!! or the plans

It's a basic hammer mill design in a small form factor using disks instead of hammers. Maybe I can dig up some measurements for you. IMHO, less work to buy a used one.

Is this the one in the pic Linux?

Well done Farmer, now to figure out how to get one to Brazil!!

Here is how our girls  do "milling" today.