Posted by DR. EVIL on April 11, 2018 at 04:24:42 from (174.198.3.182):
In Reply to: How big a tractor posted by kansasredneck on April 10, 2018 at 20:51:59:
With only 25 pto hp You will be way short on power. Grinders are hard to feed slowly so they can run on lower hp tractors. Your mix mill has the extra drag of the mixer plus all the extra feed augers and conveyors.
Dad ground all our ground earcorn for cattle feed with a Knoedler burr mill, just had the grinder and a verticle auger and short horizontal auger to run. After bugging him for months one Saturday we hooked my '39 Farmall H with 3-7/16" O/S pistons up to it to grind. Dad insisted it wouldn't pull it, and we always used the '51 M. We shoveled into a 16 ft aluminum Harvest Handler elevator that ran the earcorn up and into the hopper. I tossed the first shovel full into the elevator, watched it go up and fall into the grinder, governor on the H quickly went wide open, it pulled down a little, then a little more, finally got below 1000 rpm, then slowed down a lot more, and in about 6-8 seconds pulled down and died! All with one shovel of corn. Dad didn't say a word. Unhooked the tractor from the grinder, started it, pulled it out of the crib, got the M and hooked it to the grinder. Still coughing and sputtering he eased the clutch out of the grinder with the M at idle and it started up the full load, Dad pinned the M's Ears back and it cleared right up and we went to work grinding.
The stage II Super H was just enough bigger that it would pull the grinder but it was absolutely everything it wanted, if an ear went thru the burrs wrong it would pull down to 1200-1400 rpm but would catch up and run 1650 in a couple seconds. We ground with the SH for a couple weeks one winter and it never died.
We put the 4010 diesel on the grinder by mistake one mprning, it had the stock muffler with full extension outlet, blew exhaust up between the floor joists of the overhead grain bins, exhaust came straight back down, cooling fan blew exhaust back where I was scooping corn and in about a minute or two I was coughing and hacking, seeing stars, So the 4010 sat all winter unused after that. Didn't start at all well unless you kept the block heater plugged in for a day before you needed it anyhow.
I'd look for something bigger, around 60+hp to run your grinder. Neighbor had an Owatonna mix-mill I think it was. He had a real strong WD-45 Allis that he tore the pto out of running the grinder, he never even hooked his 630 Deere to it, used his 4020 turbo to grind with all the time because he hauled feed a mile to his other farm summer and winter and it had the cab with the heater.
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