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    Belt feeder vs. Board/chain feeder

    we've done both a bag, and obviously our harvestore, and i would say without a doubt the feed coming out of the harvestore is of higher quality...
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    Belt feeder vs. Board/chain feeder

    We already have a horizontal mixer, we decided to go ahead and put the demuth belt feeder in and tried it last night, and i gotta say im pretty impressed... the problem i see with going to a mixer set up is that youve got to go out start a tractor start a loader sometimes in -20* weather, and if...
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    Belt feeder vs. Board/chain feeder

    Thanks for the reply, we just went and looked at a double chain deal work yesterday. It was nice I'm just still not convinced the belt feeder isn't a better deal. What sells the chain conveyor is that it is "maintenance free". But it's louder, almost as expensive, and I think the belt feeder is...
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    Belt feeder vs. Board/chain feeder

    Me and my dad feed about 140 cattle a year, and need to replace our old auger feeder system on our main lot. At this time we do not really have any need to split feed and we are looking at either a dutch prairie chain conveyor, or a demuth belt feeder. Any opinions at all would be greatly...
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