Home-Built Feed Mixer Wagon

Home-Built Feed Mixer Wagon WAGONS/TRAILERS Conversions 14-5-6 Gerald Schultz, Success, Sask., built his own 150-bu. pto-operated feed mixer wagon and equipped it with a weigh scale that allows him to economically mix different feed ingredients. Schultz patterned the wagon after a neighbor's feed mixer and built it with the help of neighbor Dean Smith. The wagon is equipped with 3 mixing augers and a side-unload feed conveyor made from a cleated rubber belt. "At the time I built my feed mixer wagon I couldn't find a used one that suited me and a new one of comparable size would have cost $18,000 to $20,000," says Schultz. "It took a long time to build and turned out to be a fairly expensive project at about $8,000, including $2,400 for the scales. However, it allows me to make more economical rations and better use of all sorts of feedstuffs such as wheat and oat chaff, ground alfalfa, kochia, straw, rolled oats, and so on. My mixer wagon allows me to mix the poor feed and good feed together to form a balanced ration for growing calves or fattening cattle." He used 3 by 6-in. rectangular steel tubing to build the frame and welded stub axles onto it equipped with 15 in. implement tires. He fashioned the tapered sides of the 10-ft. long wagon out of 14-ga. sheet metal and the bottom from 10 ga. sheet metal. He installed three 2-ft. long weigh bars between the frame and the tank, mounted a 12-volt battery on the frame to operate the scale, and installed a digital readout on front. One mixing auger mounts at the bottom of the wagon and two more above it on each side. The bottom auger pulls feed into the middle of the wagon. The top augers push feed toward the front and rear. Schultz made the augers from 4-in. dia. pipe with 22 in. dia. flighting. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gerald Schultz, Box 59, Success, Sask., Canada SON 2R0 (ph 306 773-6860).

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