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Feed Trailer Makes Grain Feeding Easy
Topdressing grain on hay or silage for his beef cattle is a simple job for Armin Scripter, Abilene, Kansas, who built a feed trailer to go behind his Yamaha Grizzly 4-wheeler ATV.
He started with a small 2-wheel trailer he got several years ago when he bought his first ATV, a three-wheeler. It didn't take him l
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Feed Trailer Makes Grain Feeding Easy LIVESTOCK Feeding Equipment 24-5-3 Topdressing grain on hay or silage for his beef cattle is a simple job for Armin Scripter, Abilene, Kansas, who built a feed trailer to go behind his Yamaha Grizzly 4-wheeler ATV.
He started with a small 2-wheel trailer he got several years ago when he bought his first ATV, a three-wheeler. It didn't take him long to exchange that for a 4-wheeler, but he kept the trailer, which had been intended to transport the ATV behind a pickup.
Scripter began converting the trailer by welding a hitch below the existing pickup hitch, to keep the trailer level behind the 4-wheeler.
Then he mounted a small metal bin, complete with a horizontal unloading auger on the trailer. He first mounted the bin on a square base that keeps it from tipping. The base, made of 1/2-in. steel rod, is anchored in place on the trailer by a 5/8-in. dia. pipe through eye bolts fastened to the trailer floor.
"I used a salvaged 12-volt electric motor that fastens directly to the shaft to power the auger. Most electric motors I'd seen needed a pulley and belt to drive an auger like this. With this one mounted on the shaft, though, it makes a really simple machine," he says.
Power to run the motor comes from a 12-volt battery that Scripter mounted on the trailer. He starts the motor with a push-button switch on a cord that he holds in his hand as he drives along the bunk where he feeds his cattle. He used the push-button switch because it's easier to shut off than trying to remember to flip a toggle switch.
"The bin holds about 300 lbs. of ground corn. I already had all the parts so it didn't take much time or effort to put it together. It makes feeding so much easier than using a tractor or carrying feed. Since we use it every day when cattle aren't on pasture, it probably saves as much labor as anything I've ever put together," he says.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Armin Scripter, 3421 Mink Road, Abilene, Kan. 67410 (ph: 785461-5642).
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