Round Bale Feeder Trailer

Round Bale Feeder Trailer LIVESTOCK Beef After a wet winter left a muddy mess around his round bale ring feeder Rusty McCombs of Hueytown Alabama decided to come up with a better way to provide hay for his small herd of Belted Galloway cattle Out of the farm’s boneyard McCombs and his friend Scott Johnson collected all the materials necessary to cobble together a 10-ft tall 2-bale feeder trailer He uses a small tractor to pull the trailer to different locations in his pasture “It’s easy to move cost almost nothing to build and is covered so the hay never gets wet Also cattle eat from narrow access slots that prevent them from grabbing too much hay with each mouthful and wasting it on the ground ” says McCombs He started with an old 4 by 10-ft steel mason’s mortar mixing pan He welded the front axle and wheels off an old Ford F-700 dump truck onto one end and an old pintle hitch ring to the other He then used roughcut pine boards from his sawmill to build the 10-ft tall feeder adding a gabled top enclosure that’s covered by reclaimed metal roofing The feeder is open at both ends where bales are loaded in “I had been using a round bale ring to feed my cattle but I found that it’s a messy way to feed hay and requires a lot of work to move around My home-built feeder is highly mobile which makes it easy to move frequently to prevent ‘slop holes’ from developing ” notes McCombs Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Rusty McCombs 3712 Virginia Dr Hueytown Ala 35023 ph 205 497-0994; rusty mccombs@gmail com

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