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“Facer Bucket” Unloads Bunk Silos Fast
A nifty new “facer bucket” from E. Steiner Mfg., Dalton, Ohio, has hydraulic-powered rotating teeth that fold out to tear silage off the face of a bunker silo and then fold back in so the bucket can be loaded with the loose silage.
    The 6-ft. wide bucket is capable of holding 800 to 900 lbs. of feed, depending on moisture. A single direct-drive wheel motor turns the cutterhead.
    The rotor has hardened teeth for long life and the bucket attaches as easily as a normal loader bucket. The arm that folds the cutterhead in and out mounts outside the bucket, on the back side. Just one auxiliary outlet is used to power both the cutterhead and the arm that moves it, thanks to some extra valving on the hydraulics. No electronic controls are needed.
    The custom-built facer buckets sell for about $6,500, depending on price of materials at the time of sale.
    Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, E. Steiner Mfg., 342 N. West Lebanon Rd., Dalton, Ohio 44618 (ph 330 466-3966).


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2018 - Volume #42, Issue #6