We took this 2554 to Rosser Dairy at Rosser, Manitoba. We loaded it with only hay. (round bales). Then added a square bale of straw to test the mixing action. Very Impressive!
I could have finished feeding two pre ground loads by the time you got done rough mixing 4 bales... pre grinding custom is roughly 300 an hour, I grind every 3 weeks for one hour, 63 bales. Don’t know how much fuel you burn sitting and grinding, but the slowness of it would kill me. I have custom grinder grind a 4/5 or 4 inch screen to get rid of the fluff, I suppose you could just sit there till fodder ground down enough to fit in bunk unless you feed bunk-less and therefore have to re push product back to cattle. Your fuel burn may never be greater than the grinding bill but the time sitting there, my god you can only have one pen for the hours you spend sitting. I wish I could afford that grinder but I don’t have concrete pad for the weight of it. Great grinder no doubt, but it’s specialty is not grinding it’s the amount of product it can handle vs horizontal grinder. My horizontal wagon I add corn, pellets first because hay seems to spin around mixing shaft than silage and DDGs to push it’s way in... vertical mixer I’m guessing hay would be first because everything else would fall to bottom, can’t visualize corn being evenly distributed by the lift augers that well. I’ll watch more videos, large feed lots can’t be wrong they use these wagons heavy...
So how long did it actually take to cut up/process those two bales between your clips? 30 minutes? more? Don't know anyone who has the time and fuel to waste on such a slow process. You could've bought a new hay grinder for half the cost of that mixer tub, and ground 15 bales in the time it took this thing to grind up 3, and been done feeding it..... At this rate it would take an entire morning to feed.
To have a ledgit argument, you need to offer more than "you obviously know nothing" I know many people who own these and are trying to go another route because of the huge inefficiency of mixers like these. If you have nothing else to do in a day, then you'll be happy spending 30 minutes per load, or more. The rest of us have to actually make a living and time and money are important items. Your comment shows your age, or lack thereof
How so? I'm curious? If that's the case, then every feedlot in America is using them I bet?..... o wait, they're not. If you believe that, I'm curious for you to put together the hp, labor, productivity/volume, and fuel requirements for a tub mixer like this vs hay grinder and feed truck setup.
