[AT] Weighing feed ingredients

[Larry D. Goss]

I'm reading through this thread and sitting here with my mouth open in
amazement.  I thought metering mills were fairly common.  It's been 45
years since I had any contact with one, and I just assumed that they
were being used for custom mixing and grinding of grains and medication
for livestock.  Am I naïve, or just plain dumb?  What happened?  Why
didn't they work out?

Larry

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Ricky

They have load cells that go on mixers to weigh feed but they are high
and 
when I was useing them several years ago on feed trucks they lacked a
lot.

 When I left  the feed mill and started mixing my own feed with a
grinder 
mixer I riged an old combine gravity  bin on a 1000# portabe scale and
weighed my 
ingrediants before I ground them. I augered the feed from the bins into
the 
bin and then had a short auger that fed it into the mill. I would set
the 
scales about 25 lbs short of what I wanted and when the scale beam came
up, shut 
the auger off and it was generaly about right.  If it was real critical
you 
could get it just right with a scoop. It worked real good and wasn't
that much 
more work.

Farmerbeal
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