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<blockquote data-quote="iowafarmer" data-source="post: 812554" data-attributes="member: 7792"><p>Well everything needs to be figured in but it wouldn't be much wear and tear on a feeder wagon to mix up one batch to figure out your consistancy of ddgs to hay or straw and then use a payloader or tractor with a loader to mix it from there while packing but I wouldn't want to run 15 semis of ddgs along with adding hay through a feeder wagon in a day or two. That sounds like asking for something to break and it would take a lot longer. So if you have one and you run one batch through no big deal but deffinately wouldn't make sense to go buy one to do it. Dumping a whole round bale in a horizontal mixer would be a disaster. It would be hard on the feeder wagon and the tractor on the pto. We just bust up the bale with the payloader for the rations that use hay in the feeder wagon. The most hay we have had in ours is 1000lbs and thats for freshly weaned calves so a whole round bale would be too much anyway. We run wdgs and silage with the hay so the hay is not making up a majority of the ration and then it doesn't wrap very much and the wdgs stick to the hay and make it work a lot better. Also a real augie by knight only has two augers and then one big wheel with bars on it that tumbles everything and isnt an auger. There are some horizontal mixers out there that have a plate mounted on them that works well for large square bales casue its at an angle and feeds the bale slowly to an auger with knives on it and it doesn't pull down the tractor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iowafarmer, post: 812554, member: 7792"] Well everything needs to be figured in but it wouldn't be much wear and tear on a feeder wagon to mix up one batch to figure out your consistancy of ddgs to hay or straw and then use a payloader or tractor with a loader to mix it from there while packing but I wouldn't want to run 15 semis of ddgs along with adding hay through a feeder wagon in a day or two. That sounds like asking for something to break and it would take a lot longer. So if you have one and you run one batch through no big deal but deffinately wouldn't make sense to go buy one to do it. Dumping a whole round bale in a horizontal mixer would be a disaster. It would be hard on the feeder wagon and the tractor on the pto. We just bust up the bale with the payloader for the rations that use hay in the feeder wagon. The most hay we have had in ours is 1000lbs and thats for freshly weaned calves so a whole round bale would be too much anyway. We run wdgs and silage with the hay so the hay is not making up a majority of the ration and then it doesn't wrap very much and the wdgs stick to the hay and make it work a lot better. Also a real augie by knight only has two augers and then one big wheel with bars on it that tumbles everything and isnt an auger. There are some horizontal mixers out there that have a plate mounted on them that works well for large square bales casue its at an angle and feeds the bale slowly to an auger with knives on it and it doesn't pull down the tractor. [/QUOTE]
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