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Cattle and grinder/mixer pics

jon f mn

jon f mn

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Cattle showed up on Saturday
finally. Been a long year
getting ready but they are
here now. Got 4-500lb steers
and one around 1,000 that just
needs finishing.


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Got them from my friend Jeff, so I know they are good and healthy. The big one is named Devon after my grandson who was dating Jeff's granddaughter when he was born. He should be ready by February. Looking forward to having beef in the house. Hopefully some pigs will show up soon too.

Since the steers are here I need feed so I got a chance to use my grinder mixer finally. This is one of my favorite pieces in my collection since it is fairly rare and in exceptional condition.


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Still have a little work to do in the barn today, I have to Finnish the hog pen and build a room around the water to keep that from freezing. But having animals is a good deal for me, been looking forward to it for a long time.
Grinding feed
 
Quite a few farms around here ground their own feed when I was growing up. Mostly smaller dairies and pig operations. I have seen many grinder mixers over the years, but never a Case. Looks to be in real nice shape, and doing a good job ! How much do you make at once ?
 
Drive up, swing it in, drive up. I'll try a different method next time as I didn't go on far enough that way.
 
Do you have room to drive up perpendicular, swing the auger straight back and back straight in? That's the way I always did it. Leave the auger a little off to one side so you can see the end and guide it right in there.
 
Goin to try something like that next time. The auger needs to go sideways once inside tho, so we will see. It worked ok this way for a small batch, but a full mixer would require a lot of shoveling.
 
Will that grinder mixer handle flakes of hay? My farmer friend adds hay to his fat cattle mix. Has to be carefull and only add a flake at a time as it will and has plugged it up. gobble
 
Jon,

How about mounting a hinged/movable metal U-shaped slide/arm on the inside of the barn wall (or hung from the ceiling)?
Then you don't need to get the auger so far inside the barn... and can move that arm to direct the ground feed where you want it.
 
I don't know that I've seen a grinder mixer with the load auger on the left side. Is this a Case only thing or are there others that way? ADB
 
BTO neighbor bought a brand new 560 diesel, hooked it to his mix-mill just minutes after unloading it off the dealer's truck. It ground a load or two of hog feed every day until the day many many years later it got unhooked to go to town for it's first overhaul. The little nubbins were still all over all 4 tires. Just about everybody around except Dad had a mix mill for hog feed. All our corn went through a Knoedler burr mill for cattle feed. My Brother-in-law's Dad had a hammer mill powered by a big electric motor for his hog feed, ground into a Heider augerwagon and hauled it to the feeders in the hog pasture. I was about 11-12 yrs old when I started pulling our Heider auger wagon 5 miles to town for ground feed every other day all summer and on nice Saturday's in spring & summer. 5500# was my normal load in the Heider, the mill's truck would haul 8000-10,000# and charge a Dollar or Two a Thousand for delivery, MY delivery charge was cheaper, about a Dollar for gas per load.
The cattle ate every ear of corn we grew most years, all the ground hog feed was made from shell corn we bought in town.
 
Guess it isn?t possible to put it into a bin or a pile up stairs, with a simple wooded drop shoot through the floor, with a slid door. Gravity will deliver the feed down stairs. I would be worried about a calf getting loose and into the pile of feed down stairs and bloating.
 
Very nice looking feeders you?ve got there,I?m with Bruce on being extra careful to keep them out of the pile in the event they get out. They can get pretty sick and sometimes die if they get too much at once.
 
It's supposed to, but I couldn't get it to take any. The chute is pretty rusty from sitting so I'll have to take a wire brush to it and shine it up some. It has what they call a force feed which is two beaters on the too that are supposed to push hay in. In the video you can see them jumping up from the ear corn. That extension spout on the load auger should flip up but wouldn't, and that was in the way some. Will have to get that loose so it flips up out of the way then I think it will work.
 
Artsway which also made IH mills were set up so that it could be swiveled to either side depending on which side the farmer wanted. Tom
 
Jon telling someone how to feed cattle is a lot like telling someone how to raise their kids. I would unload into a self feeder the Holsteins will do very well. Google Holstein Kept Fed Program. Just my two cents. Don't mean to offend
 
I have had several Artsway mixers and I know the discharge auger can be run right or left side. But the load auger - I've never heard that.
 

That's a first for me, we had a NH 351 and now have a Gehl 95, both are right side load and left side unload.
I like grinding ear corn for cattle feed.
 
Does any company still make new grinder mixers ? Any I ever see around my area look pretty old.
 
I miss having cattle around , really makes it a farm for me. But I sure don't miss grinding feed in the winter or dealing with water issues. My cattle were always hard on fences and pens/buildings.....maybe I don't really miss them come to think of it!
 
I believe Artsway and H&S are the only two companies still building grinders. H&S builds them for Frontier. I was thinking someone posted on here a year or two ago that New Holland had discontinued building them. I've got a neighbor that bought a new Artsway about 4 years ago. Only new grinder I've ever seen in my life. Very nice machine.
 
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