Portable Mineral Feeder Goes Pasture To Pasture

Portable Mineral Feeder Goes Pasture To Pasture LIVESTOCK Feeding Equipment 27-3-29 Cow-calf operator Rusty Faubion mounted a pair of plastic mineral feeders on an old wagon running gear so it could easily move them. Each feeder holds 100 lbs. "I pull it behind my pickup and use it on three different pastures. It eliminates a lot of work," says Faubion, of Blockton, Iowa. "I had been hauling the feeders in my pickup bed but I got tired of having to load and unload them all the time." He bought the running gear at a sale for $35 and turned it upside down so the feeders would be low enough for cattle to eat out of them. He removed the original 18-ft. long coupling pole and welded on a length of 4 by 4 steel tubing between the front and rear axles. The metal stand on each feeder was rusted out so he replaced it with a welded-on length of steel pipe. The pipe fits into a hole that he cut into the steel tubing. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Russell Faubion Jr., Rt. 2, Box 69, Blockton, Iowa 50836 (ph 641 788-3761 or 712 542-7006).

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