What is it ? LIETZ belt driven

couv · Dec 18, 2011

This is in the woods at my neice's farm. What is it ?

Has LIETZ in script, is belt-driven, some type of sheller, grinder, or something

teddy52food · Dec 18, 2011

Burr mill.

snoopnc · Dec 18, 2011

I'm not familiar with that brand name, but it sure looks like to me to be a corn silage chopper. Corn (stalks) would be cut in the field and brought to the barn...fed through machine to be chopped and blown into an upright silo. I had some hands on experience with a PAPAC brand machine...belt powered off several different tractors over the years. That was replaced by a FOX 1 row cutter/chopper in the field and an ALLIS CHALMERS --self powered--blower at the silo.

Rick

Nebraska Cowman · Dec 19, 2011

It's LETZ and it is what they called a "Roughage Mill" It was made to process the whole corn stalk, hay etc. Look here
Letz info

John A. · Dec 19, 2011

couv, That is a Lietz Feed Mill! runs off of a belt drive it will grind up small hay bales the chute has a conveyer chain in the bottom and a small hammer assembly the grind it up. the Hopper has a grain cracker, that is adjusted by the tention on the the little bell housing thing seen on the LH side of machine seen in the pics #1 & #2.
Great little machine to have in a barn to grind up and mix small batchs of hay and grain. Hope this helps.
Later,
John A.

BillyinStoughton · Dec 19, 2011

Think of it as a prerunner to the TMR (totally mixed rations). I know where one sits that it identical to it...and it also is in the woods collecting moss and lichens.

couv · Dec 20, 2011

My brother is the oldest grandchild, and he remembers our Grandfather (PaPa) having one.

I just remember playing in his barn, through the short, child-sized door, which is where he ran the belt through out to a super C

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