Stock Trailer Fitted With Weigh Scale Axles

Stock Trailer Fitted With Weigh Scale Axles WAGONS/TRAILERS Accessories 17-6-10 "It lets me take the scale to the cattle rather than the other way around. That saves a lot of time when you have pastures located in several different areas," says Jerry Zabolotny, Killdeer, N. Dak., who turned an old stock trailer into a portable weigh scale with the help of Wade Bice, also of Killdeer. The two men replaced the trailer's original tandem axles with Arts-Way weigh bar spindles - of the type ordinarily used on Arts-Way grinder mixers and feed boxes. Then they built an axle assembly between the two spindles, patterning the construction after the way the weigh bar spindles are built into Artsway equipment. Information from the electronic axles is fed to a computerized weigh monitor mounted on the sick of the trailer. Zabolotny uses the monitor off his Arts-Way grinder mixer. When not needed for weighing cattle, he moves it back to the grinder. "It's accurate to within 2 lbs. Works great for weighing yearlings before a sale. If needed, you can weigh 7 to 8 yearlings at a time to get an average weight," says Zabolotny. He installed a non-slip industrial fiberglass floor in the trailer which he says is "practically indestructible". Because it has just the single axle and no leaf springs, the trailer is no longer used to haul anything. Zabolotny says he spent about $800 for the electronic Arts-Way axle assemblies (Arts-Way, P.O. Box 288, Armstrong, Iowa 50514 ph 712 864-3131). He estimates he could build and sell weigh trailers for about $4,500. Contact FARM SHOW Followup, Jerry Zabolotny, HCR 3, Box 27, Kill-deer, N. Dak. 58640 (ph 701863-6789).

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