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Automated System Keeps Hogs Fed
BridgRid offers multiple components that automate hog feeding systems to ensure a steady flow of feed. The components are the solutions Greg Pleima needed when finishing hogs himself. Ensuring feed flow required constant monitoring by workers, often busy with other projects. After years of frustration with malfunctioni
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Automated System Keeps Hogs Fed
BridgRid offers multiple components that automate hog feeding systems to ensure a steady flow of feed. The components are the solutions Greg Pleima needed when finishing hogs himself. Ensuring feed flow required constant monitoring by workers, often busy with other projects. After years of frustration with malfunctioning systems, he designed his own.
“I wanted a system that addressed the issues I was having with feed and labor,” he says. “I hadn’t been able to find solutions, so I put together a system, and it worked.”
When other hog finishers saw his first effort, they encouraged him to make it available. As a result, he started BridgRid about 13 years ago.
BridgRid’s product is an internally mounted grid system that can be installed in nearly any sloped bulk container with a bottom discharge. By connecting opposing sides, it can send even and constant vibrations through the entire bin structure. It agitates the feed in the lower portion to keep material flowing. Sensors installed on the feedline ensure it’s full and activate the vibrations as needed.
Additional components from BridgRid further enhance automation and reduce labor needs. The RotoSlide automatic bin slide is the most compact bin slide on the market. The RotoDrive controls RotoSlide bin slides on up to four bins remotely, allowing the slides to be set from closed to completely open in 10% increments. The RotoVolt power control panel manages power flow to up to 16 RotoSlides at one time.
“Everything in a swine finishing barn is designed to be automated,” says Pleima. “The last leg of the stool is feed delivery and inventory. Our products provide that. You can feed out of only one bin at a time without having someone to monitor it.”
A single bin agitation system is priced at $1,300. BridgRid sales and installation teams customize systems as needed, notes Pleima.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, BridgRid, P.O. Box 305, Pella, Iowa 50219 (ph 641-521-2192; greg@BridgRid.com; www.BridgRid.com).
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