Pickup - Mounted Grain Feeder

Pickup- Mounted Grain Feeder PICKUPS Pickups 26-4-29 An antique combine grain tank works great as a pickup-mounted grain feeder, says Gordon Hagg, Champion, Alberta. He mounted the tank on a pair of bale-handling arms in the back of his 3/4-ton, 4-WD pickup. The bale handler was originally designed to carry one bale on the cradle, with a second bale carried by a pair of hydraulic arms. Hagg drilled holes in both sides of the 1930's Case combine tank and installed brackets to fit the arms. The tank is tilted up or down by a pair of hydraulic cylinders that were originally used to lift the bale onto the pickup bed. Another set of cylinders moves the bale cradle back and forth in the pickup bed Feed is delivered out a chute on back of the tank that's connected by a length of rope to the cradle. As the cradle moves forward on the pickup bed, the rope pulls the chute door up, allowing grain to flow out by gravity. "It works slick in our cow-calf operation," says Hagg. who built the unit two years ago. "We use it to feed rolled oats on top of a straw windrow that we leave in the field after harvest. By placing grain on top of the windrow, the cows don't have to eat off the ground so there's less waste. "The tank holds about 50 bu. When I'm done using the feeder I set it down onto a home-built stand, release the lift arms, and drive away." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gordon Hagg, Box 94, Champion, Alberta, Canada T0L 0R0 (ph 403 897-2184).

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