2011 - Volume #35, Issue #3, Page #18
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They Blend Feed In Cement Mixer
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The mixer is belt-driven by its original electric motor.
"We keep the mixer in our cattle barn and use it every day to make rations for our show calves. It really does a good job," says Pfeiffer. "We use it to mix feeds such as corn, oats, cottonseed hulls, beet pulp, molasses, and soybean oil, and unload the feed into 5-gal. buckets. We already had the mixer and hardly had to modify it at all. We just unbolted 3 baffles from inside to get more of a tumbling action."
Pfeiffer says in the past they used a local feed mill to mix feed. "The problem was the feed mill required mixing a minimum of 1 ton, so some of the feed would get stale before we could use it all up. By mixing a fresh batch every day the feed always stays fresh. And, we save money."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Ron Pfeiffer, P.O. Box 148, Rt. 3, Shelbyville, Ill. 62565 (ph 217 460-0629).
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