2011 - Volume #BFS, Issue #11, Page #105
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"Payloader Tire" Mineral Feeder
Big industrial tires make good low-cost livestock mineral feeders, says James Pierce, LaPorte, Minn., who uses payloader tires and railroad ties to feed salt and minerals to livestock.“Cattle can’t knock them around and they won’t rust out. They’re practically indestructible,” says Pierce. “I came up with the idea because my cattle were tipping over my commercial feeders, which were rusting. I’ve used these tire feeders for years and the cattle have never tipped one over and they can’t rust.”
The feeder consists of two big, junked, payloader tires and three railroad ties. Pierce cuts one tie in half and lag bolts it across the other two ties, then wedges the tires tightly between them.
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