Grinding Pig Feed

This weekend my dad and I ground some food for the pigs he is getting. Just corn and oats but it was fun to use the old machinery to do the job.

Those porkers will pig out on that feed. It is kind of fun to grind your own feed

Is that a CASE feed mill?

I think its a IH #10. It still has some grey paint on it but I got it used a couple years ago and never really looked into it.

Is that a smokestack in the background? Makes it look like your tractor almost has 2 mufflers!

When I was a kid I shoveled feed away from a Deere #10 hammer mill that looked nearly identical to yours from a distance. Ours was taller so it could drop the feed into a wagon. I would crawl out of the wagon looking like the Pillsbury dough boy. It was mounted on the front axle of an old Ford car with spoke wheels. I kind of wish I still had it just for old time sake. I still have the tractor and the belt but not the hammer mill. Come to think of it I still have the spoked wheel rims.

Yeah, those are the old smoke stacks from the power plant. Its just across the river from us. Makes an interesting background for most of my pics.

Looking at pics it could be a JD one. It doesn't have an ounce of green paint on it. Its mostly gray but we all know that doesn't mean anything. Either way it works. I need to get better at
setting it up. The belt was pulling to the inside of the mill and caused the belt to wear a little bit. I will have to take more time to set it up next time.

Just be careful a kid in school was grinding with the same setup and the belt came off it and it was a closed casket.That old stuff is nice and I'm glad to see it used but something's are hard to forget. We had one come off on a two cylinder john deere it destroyed the one tire.But saying all that i can't help but remember all the loads we put through the blower i can even remember the smell of belt dressing.

My Dad always maintained that the 2 cylinder JDs set up a harmonic in the belts that made them less desirable for belt use. We had no belts in my time. Any one else have a thought? Dad was red to the core.

Looks like our Deere in the grain room in the top of the barn.

I tell you what work is, ran out of corn so picked some green and the 2 Gehl feedmills we have, feed was not about to come out being wet, so belted the 44 Massey up and then backed the barge box to the barn, carry shovel fulls into the feed room, get that ground then have to carry shovels full back out to feed the steers. At least the feed for the cows was able to go down through a door in the floor. Did that for around 150 head of cattle. IT SUCKED!!!

10A JD grinder worked one alot as a kid both feeding and bagging. I have one out in the yard right now. Haven't used it yet.

Nice old hammer mill. Might be an IH. nice to see the old equipment still being used. I use a new holland burr mil to grind my corn for chicken scratch. I even have a small diller mill mount to a 3pt platform to take to shows and friends farms to grind corn, it's easy on and off and belt can be adjusted by top link. run that one off a ford 2n.

Kirk

Used both JD and Farmall on belt and no difference. Allis dealer was complaining the Deere tractor is what made the shaker in the AC combine break untill we told him it was the other machine that had its own Allis B engine mounted factory on the toung. He never said a word about the JD again.

What breed hogs is he getting?

Do you have any access to any hay? If you do get some and run it in that mill and mix it in that hog feed. Better than buying the vitamins and minerals but you still do need some minerals and salt mixed in. And any size screen will work but the larger the holes the better. We had dairy as well as the hogs. So when we were baling hay all the chaff that aculmiated from putting the hay in we ground and put in the hog feed. There was a company a few miles from us that made what was called alfalfa meal and sold in 50@ bags at the elevator. We bought that for quite a while before we got our own mill. Now the chaff that came from handling the bales was mostly from the leaves and is the best part of the hay plant. The mill bought all the junk hay that nobody wanted to feed and mixed it with top quality hay to get a certain level of proteen. We never had our meal tested but am sure it had a feed value of at least 3 times the boughten feed as it came from the best part of good hay. Hogs do need what is in hay to do good and if they have access to hay in field they will eat it same as a cow or horse will. If you can do that your pigs will be healthier and grow faster. And a 10" mill will do it as that is what we had. Does not have to be a roughige mill. 800# corn to 200# oats plus 100# hay chaff ground. The pigs will love it. I think it possibly has been as long since we had livestalk as your Dad is old.

My Dad wouldn't let us use a 2-cylinder tractor for belt work, especially on the threshing machine. He maintained that is wasn't steady enough power; it was liable to "Pop the belt" and cause the bundle wagon teams to run away.

My Dad wouldn't let us use a 2-cylinder tractor for belt work, especially on the threshing machine. He maintained that it wasn't steady enough power; it was liable to "Pop the belt" and cause the bundle wagon teams to run away.

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2 cylinders bad for belt and pro work,To jerky.

WOW! I do NOT miss using one of those. We had a Skyline then a Deere 10A. I remember Dad used to tie a cloth diaper over his head to keep the dust off.

Reminds me of the time we were filling a silo at my uncle's and the bull was getting frisky. I don't know exactly how they did it but my uncle popped the belt and the bull got it. We didn't see him for a long time after and he left us alone after that.