Pull-Type Feed Caker
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"It doesn't look like much but it really works well and frees up my pickup bed for other jobs," says Lloyd Rolf, Sundance, Wyo., about the pull-type "cattle caker" he built using an old IH combine grain tank and the rear axle, frame, and coil springs off a Chevrolet car.
Rolf welded the car's front steering spindles to the axle and used scrap steel to make the tongue, then mounted a 2-in. ball coupler on it. He used heavy duty steel to make a hinged lid for the top of the tank. The lid can be propped up by a fold-over post while the hopper is being filled. A sliding trap door at the bottom of the tank controls feed flow and is operated by a rope leading up to the pickup cab.
"I built it 30 years ago but still use it a lot," says Rolf. "Capacity is about 1,800 lbs. In deep snow I drag an old tire under the tank to make a path for feed to fall into so it won't get buried or trampled under by cattle."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Lloyd Rolf, Box 249, Sundance, Wyo. 82729 (ph 307 283-3425).
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Pull-Type Feed Caker COMBINES Conversions 20-3-10 "It doesn't look like much but it really works well and frees up my pickup bed for other jobs," says Lloyd Rolf, Sundance, Wyo., about the pull-type "cattle caker" he built using an old IH combine grain tank and the rear axle, frame, and coil springs off a Chevrolet car.
Rolf welded the car's front steering spindles to the axle and used scrap steel to make the tongue, then mounted a 2-in. ball coupler on it. He used heavy duty steel to make a hinged lid for the top of the tank. The lid can be propped up by a fold-over post while the hopper is being filled. A sliding trap door at the bottom of the tank controls feed flow and is operated by a rope leading up to the pickup cab.
"I built it 30 years ago but still use it a lot," says Rolf. "Capacity is about 1,800 lbs. In deep snow I drag an old tire under the tank to make a path for feed to fall into so it won't get buried or trampled under by cattle."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Lloyd Rolf, Box 249, Sundance, Wyo. 82729 (ph 307 283-3425).
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