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New, Affordable Silage Stuffer
You'll like the price tag on the new Max-Pac, an "affordable and portable" sealed storage machine for stuffing haylage or silage into giant plastic bags. It's priced at $9,700, which reportedly is less than half the cost of competing machines now on the market.
Says Maynard Good, president of Agri-Marketing Devel
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New, Affordable Silage Stuffer CROP STORAGE Bag Silos 6-2-32 You'll like the price tag on the new Max-Pac, an "affordable and portable" sealed storage machine for stuffing haylage or silage into giant plastic bags. It's priced at $9,700, which reportedly is less than half the cost of competing machines now on the market.
Says Maynard Good, president of Agri-Marketing Development, Elkhart, Ind., manufacturer and distributor of the new entry into the field of sealed storage:
"A key feature of the Max-Pac is its simplicity. It does take two men to mount the plastic bag but, after that, one man does it all. The machine, only 8 ft. wide, hooks behind a tractor for towing to the work area. Once there, you simply start it up and start filling ù no backstops, cables, relocating, or gearboxes, and no trial and error. Anyone who knows how to unload silage into a hopper can fill plastic bags with the Max-Pac. This is a hungry machine. It takes forage faster than a blower. A two-row chopper can't keep up."
Good notes that an exclusive feature of the Max-Pac is a blower that keeps the bag inflated during filling: "The machine moves silage into the inflated bag with a compressing process. It produces both a direct and a lateral thrust to give a complete, even pack inside the bag. Since there are no cables, there is no chaffing of the bag and no concern if the bag is notperfectly straight. When the bag is full, you're all done. There is nothing in the machine to clean out. Just tie the bag.
"We've packed about one ton per foot of bag but moisture content will cause that to vary," Good points out. "This isn't as much as claims I've heard for other machines but, when a Max-Pac filled bag is opened, the feed stands in a good, vertical wall. We think our less-dense pack is an advantage. After all, feed packed as hard as concrete, that has to be hacked out with a loader or chain saw, does not make the best feed," explains Good.
The Max-Pac was used last fall to bag forage at a wide variety of moisture levels on area farms. "We are now evaluating storage quality of these feedstuffs and have been well pleased with every bag that has been opened," Good told FARM SHOW two weeks ago. A limited number of Max-Pac machines will be produced for the 1982 crop year. Their retail price ($9,700) is FOB Elkhart. A 60 hp tractor handles the pto-driven Max-Pac, which was developed by Indiana dairyman Kenneth Weeber and his son Jim.
For more information, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Agri-Marketing/Development, Maynard Good, 23257 Co. Road 18 East, Route 7, Elkhart, Ind. 46516 (ph 219 875-5697).
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