3-Pt. Mounted Cube Cake Feeder

3-Pt Mounted Cube Cake Feeder LIVESTOCK Feeding Equipment Making use of a 55-gal plastic barrel and the grain conveyor off an old Deere 35 combine Matthew Hempel put together a low-cost 3-pt mounted range cube feeder for his cattle It holds 300 lbs of cubes “It lets me feed cattle from the seat of my tractor by pulling on a lever The hydraulic-powered conveyor delivers the cubes off to the side ” he says “I built it because I didn’t want to spend the money for a commercial pickup-mounted cube feeder We had been feeding cubes by hand out of 50-lb bags but it was dangerous work Our cows love range cubes so much that if you’re not careful you could get trampled ” He shortened the conveyor to 6 ft and bolted it onto a wooden platform that rests on a pair of 3-pt mounted forks The conveyor is shaft-driven by a small hydraulic motor that runs off the tractor’s hydraulics The barrel lays sideways on top of the conveyor and is bolted to an angle iron bracket welded to the conveyor Hempel cut a 6-in wide slot lengthwise into the underside of the barrel and a corresponding slot on top of the conveyor He also cut an opening on top of the barrel and made a hinged lid so he can dump in bags of feed by hand He also can set the feeder in his pickup bed and operate it off the vehicle’s hydraulics Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Matthew Hempel Semper Fidelis Ranch 1349 Hempel Rd Eldridge Mo 65463 ph 417 664-8392; hempelranch@gmail com

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