Ground feed today

Ground a batch of steer feed today. 1968 4020 on a 400 grinder, 2510 on the 68 auger wagon and also the factory John Deere 6x12 barge wagon. Had barley in the auger wagon and ear corn in the barge box. Tom

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Thats an awesome set of pictures

That's an awesome set up. Love using my vintage equipment too.

Those pics would have been in The Furrow magazine years ago.

Looks like you are having way to much fun!

Vito

That grinder mixer look like it is a year old! not 40 yrs old!

I repainted the grinder when we got it in 2005. It has never seen any rain since. Since the dairy cows are gone it does not see near the use it did. Tom

Nice machines. Sunny there, makes us envious.
We are getting some moisture now.
Thanks for sharing the pictures. GG Wes

You are a neat guy, Tom!

Looks like a catalog picture! Nice, Tom.

All 3 of them need to be famed and hanging in a Kitchen, Shop, man cave...somewhere.
Very neat and cool pictures.
Thanks for sharing.

(quoted from post at 17:43:50 02/08/23) Those pics would have been in The Furrow magazine years ago.

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Tom your like Jon F. Having to much fun with older equipment.... RB

Around home, Henry County, Ill, 15 miles east and a little south of Moline, Ill, most hog farmers used mix/mills to grind shell corn for hog feed. We had a Kneodler burr mill we ground a BIG pile of ground ear corn every weekend all winter for our feeder cattle. Once the corn was low enough to stop running out of the sides of the crib, scooping corn became a one man, or in my case, one small-ish boy type job, Dad would take a leisurely walk back to the barn and toss a couple bales of hay out for the cattle. I'd grind 40-50 bushel of corn, enough to feed them for a week and it was angered out into a fairly large walk-in feeder in the feed lot.
The hogs were on the Other side of the crib, typically two 40 bushel hog feeders in that lot, once I got about 10-12 years old Dad would send me to town for 5500# of ground feed for the hogs. In summer I'd make two trips to town for hog feed a week, only 5 miles away. We had the option of having the hog feed being ground and delivered about 10,000-12,000# at a time, think delivery was $1/1000#, my delivery cost was considerably less, 5 miles each way, 2 gallons of gas for the round trip so 50-60 cents.
Combine my free labor with the cheap 1960's gas prices and I'd put a lot of miles on that old '39 H or '54 Super H delivering hay or straw and picking up feed. The feed mill goofed up one summer, forgot to charge for the 5500# of shell corn for several loads of hog feed. Dad bought a 1000 bushel of shell corn and I hauled it about 5-6 miles to the elevator 10,000# per load. Our BIG Electric Wheel flare box wagon held exactly 10,000# filled level full with no side boards, EWC said the box was 150 bushel but that comes out to 178-1/2 bushel per load on my calculator. The bin we loaded out of only had a 4 inch auger, took most of a morning to get a load in the wagon and 10-15 minutes to get to town.
And in my free time I kept the corn cultivated, 180 acres three times, mowed, raked, and baled 20 acres of hay three times during the summer. And Dad and I traded help with a couple neighbors casterating & vaccinating couple hundred head of hogs.