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<blockquote data-quote="Bez" data-source="post: 60067" data-attributes="member: 412"><p>Sundown Land & Livest</p><p></p><p>Todd - I am afraid I am too big (If you saw me you would understand the pun) to play around with bags - and getting too old to like manhandling feed bags - it all goes into a hopper bottom bin - holds about 8 - 10 tonnes or so - just a guess - never measured it. About 20 feet high and 8 or so feet in diameter.</p><p></p><p>Any extra is stored in neighbours empty bins around the country until I need it. This year I have three off farm bins awaiting my pick up. No clue as to the actual amount - just that it is far more than last year. Good thing too, because we had some unexpected "guests" arrive this year that I am feeding as well along with my own and some permanent guests.</p><p></p><p>I bought the "home" bin used for 600 bucks and paid another 300 to have it moved, patched and mounted at my place - I poured the concrete base for it and installed a small auger to pull from the bottom and load the boxes - too much work to shovel the stuff. Total cost was in the area of $2K.</p><p></p><p>Did a small look at the books tonight - last year we filled the bin 2 1/2 times. Funny, I had completely forgotten about that until wife reminded me - I only remembered doing it once. I guess we feed out more than I figured. Not that it matters - I barter - the corn and corn fines come for free. As does about 2 tote bags of soy beans. I help the neighbour plant and harvest soy beans and corn - I get the gleanings in the fall. Saves a bundle in money and my time is worth nothing.</p><p></p><p>I have a gravity box on wheels that the neighbour will lend me for additional storage in the winter. I can fill it and keep it in the shop until needed - auger it into the bin as required</p><p></p><p>In the end because I get this stuff for nothing, I tend to be pretty slack with the computations. I just throw it to them until I figure "That looks about right" and they clean it all up. Believe me, they are never shorted.</p><p></p><p>But these cows live outside in the bush - are never bedded - simply well fed - they winter on their own.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I ramble ...</p><p></p><p>I auger it out of the bin into a couple of large aluminum boxes a neighbour built for me - traded him a side of beef - open a small chute and allow it to trickle out on the ground / snow as I drive through the field. When it is empty I simply go home and park it in the shop.</p><p></p><p>When the snow gets deep I keep a road plowed compliments of my corn supplying neighbour and his big 16 foot swing plow and just feed it out on the packed snow in the road. I have kept a few of his cows for the past three years - for nothing - I think there are only 8 on the place - hardly notice them - so he can have his own freezer filled and he keeps my road opened. Cows love it when they hear me coming.</p><p></p><p>As usual it took me a long time to tell you how I store my grain - but that's it that's all.</p><p></p><p>You might have noticed I do a lot of barter - that and the good graces of some neighbours who helped me this year when hay suddenly got tight because of circumstances beyond my control - have helped us gather enough feed to get through this winter. Wouldn't have made it without them.</p><p></p><p>Now for the questions - how many cows you feeding? I saw a good set up for someone with about 20 cows once - bulk feed into a covered plywood gravity box on posts - set on an angle - one corner down - he bought the grain - had it blown into the box - and backed his truck under it. The grain flowed into plastic garbage cans and his kids shovelled it out onto the ground with plastic kids sand buckets from the back of the truck as he drove through the field. Worked fine for him - but I never saw how the truck handled in soft ground.</p><p></p><p>Would this work for you?</p><p></p><p>Regards</p><p></p><p>Bez</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bez, post: 60067, member: 412"] Sundown Land & Livest Todd - I am afraid I am too big (If you saw me you would understand the pun) to play around with bags - and getting too old to like manhandling feed bags - it all goes into a hopper bottom bin - holds about 8 - 10 tonnes or so - just a guess - never measured it. About 20 feet high and 8 or so feet in diameter. Any extra is stored in neighbours empty bins around the country until I need it. This year I have three off farm bins awaiting my pick up. No clue as to the actual amount - just that it is far more than last year. Good thing too, because we had some unexpected "guests" arrive this year that I am feeding as well along with my own and some permanent guests. I bought the "home" bin used for 600 bucks and paid another 300 to have it moved, patched and mounted at my place - I poured the concrete base for it and installed a small auger to pull from the bottom and load the boxes - too much work to shovel the stuff. Total cost was in the area of $2K. Did a small look at the books tonight - last year we filled the bin 2 1/2 times. Funny, I had completely forgotten about that until wife reminded me - I only remembered doing it once. I guess we feed out more than I figured. Not that it matters - I barter - the corn and corn fines come for free. As does about 2 tote bags of soy beans. I help the neighbour plant and harvest soy beans and corn - I get the gleanings in the fall. Saves a bundle in money and my time is worth nothing. I have a gravity box on wheels that the neighbour will lend me for additional storage in the winter. I can fill it and keep it in the shop until needed - auger it into the bin as required In the end because I get this stuff for nothing, I tend to be pretty slack with the computations. I just throw it to them until I figure "That looks about right" and they clean it all up. Believe me, they are never shorted. But these cows live outside in the bush - are never bedded - simply well fed - they winter on their own. Anyway, I ramble ... I auger it out of the bin into a couple of large aluminum boxes a neighbour built for me - traded him a side of beef - open a small chute and allow it to trickle out on the ground / snow as I drive through the field. When it is empty I simply go home and park it in the shop. When the snow gets deep I keep a road plowed compliments of my corn supplying neighbour and his big 16 foot swing plow and just feed it out on the packed snow in the road. I have kept a few of his cows for the past three years - for nothing - I think there are only 8 on the place - hardly notice them - so he can have his own freezer filled and he keeps my road opened. Cows love it when they hear me coming. As usual it took me a long time to tell you how I store my grain - but that's it that's all. You might have noticed I do a lot of barter - that and the good graces of some neighbours who helped me this year when hay suddenly got tight because of circumstances beyond my control - have helped us gather enough feed to get through this winter. Wouldn't have made it without them. Now for the questions - how many cows you feeding? I saw a good set up for someone with about 20 cows once - bulk feed into a covered plywood gravity box on posts - set on an angle - one corner down - he bought the grain - had it blown into the box - and backed his truck under it. The grain flowed into plastic garbage cans and his kids shovelled it out onto the ground with plastic kids sand buckets from the back of the truck as he drove through the field. Worked fine for him - but I never saw how the truck handled in soft ground. Would this work for you? Regards Bez [/QUOTE]
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