I'm not familiar with the Country Living mill but have had the Grainmaker mill for about two months now and am quite happy with it. So far I've milled about 15 pounds of wheat for bread and pancakes and only needed a single pass for flour similar to store bought general purpose flour. I suspect, even with a second pass, trying to get a pastry flour might be a stretch.
The mill is solidly built from steel, the only plastic are a few nylon(or whatever) washers in non-wear areas.
To disassemble the mill for simple cleaning requires no tools.
FYI: The extension handle gives you an 11" crank radius for hand working the mill.
If you want to take a look at the single page manual (sorry for the blurriness)
look here. (1.6 MB jpg file)
Here are a few pictures...
Feed tube with burrs and auger removed.
The augers; wire for small seed like wheat, cracking auger for nuts and large seed like corn.
If you're going to used the clamp for temporary mounting your table needs a minimum 1" lip, and be 1.5" to 3" thick. I had to fit my mill with a little platform in order to use the clamp with my table.
The drive shaft uses a 3/4" stainless steel rod with two sealed roller bearings.
I opted for the Bodine motor that Grainmaker sells. The flywheel that came mounted on the mill needed quite a bit of persuasion to be removed, just needs to be knocked off the drive shaft. You'll need a good rubber mallet or drop-dead plastic hammer. Installing the motor assembly was easy. I just slipped into place then cinched up a little collet clamp. (Sorry about the head tilt!)
The only thing I don't like about the motor is it is a little proud and close to the dust cover. This interferes with removing the dust cover a little, and gets in the way of putting a collection bowl up to the dust cover.
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