Garden Tractor Auger Feed Cart

Garden Tractor Auger Feed Cart HOG EQUIPMENT & IDEAS Hog Equipment & Ideas (351) 16-6-7 "It lets me feed 120 sows in about five minutes," says Jerry Moore, Winthrop, Iowa, who designed this 700-lb. auger feed cart for his garden tractor because his artificial hip couldn't stand the strain of lugging 5-gal. pails of feed to sows. A pto-operated hydraulic pump mounted on front of the tractor is used to operate apair of orbit motors mounted on the cart. The orbit motors power a floor auger as well as a vertical unloading auger. "I use it to unload feed into concrete bunks on both sides of an alley. The unloading auger can be directed to left or right. Cart is bolted rigidly to the back of the tractor which lets me back up straight. "I use the electric switch that activates the pto and drives the hydraulic pump to turn the augers on and off. I bought the lawn mower new for $500 and spent $350 to build the cart. It could be adapted to an ATV by mounting a gas engine and hydraulic pump on the cart." The hydraulic pump is belt-driven off the pto. Moore built a 4-gal. oil reservoir that looks like tractor weights and mounted it on front of the tractor. He used sheet metal to build the cart and mounted a pair of garden tractor tires on back. He salvaged the orbit motors from an old feed truck and the augers from an old bin filling auger system. The hydraulic pump came from a junked skid steer loader. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jerry Moore, 2285 York Ave., Winthrop, Iowa 50682 (ph 319 935-3923).

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