Looking to buy a meal bin the type that holds about 750kg to sit at a shed away from main steading. Save carting feed bags about as much . Nobody local to me had any just wondered if anybody has seen them in stock anywhere or any alternative things I can use . The most appealing type was the typsy meal bin
Anybody stock meal bins ?
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Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Parris tractors have them on their web site and i have seen them on occasion in Wynnstay Oswestry
TripleSix
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- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
grainboy
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- Bedfordshire
solo
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- worcestershire
Could you not fabricate one from angle iron and plywood sheets and have a tin slide? We used to make meal hoppers or extensions for feeders when we had pigs. Didn’t take long with a power saw and screws. Be even quicker now with cordless tools.
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- Galloway
IBC and put a metal lid on it
How much do they weigh empty? Wondering if I can pick up two on a flatbed
grainboy
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- Bedfordshire
At a guess approx 150 kg 170 kg
Bought 6 home no problem on my trailer
Bought 6 home no problem on my trailer
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- Out in the Sticks
How do you measure out the right amount for a pen.
Do you just guess and under over feed?
We switched back to bags as it's all weighed already.
Saving to be had in bulk but under feeding can be too!
Do you just guess and under over feed?
We switched back to bags as it's all weighed already.
Saving to be had in bulk but under feeding can be too!
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Symms Binns, they make bins for just this job and a lot more stuff besides.
Basically we would need to fill this container whatever I get out our bulk bin so needs to be small enough to get under centre chute then we would take it up the road to sit at the cattle shed and we would scoop out feed with a bucket to feed each pen. We know the weight of feed in a bucket so work out from there . If day it holds 700kg would probably last 2 weeks before need refilled . At moment we been taking bags up every day
Ibc with top cut off or a tattie box with the floor covered in chipboard/ ply
I have been thinking about a tipsy bin,
Jfc do similiar
Meal Bins| Farm equipment | JFC Agri
JFC Meal Bins are the perfect solution for storing meal on the farm. They can be easily transported with a bale handler.
jfcagri.com
Happy hillbily
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Uncle cut a 600 gal diesel tank in half, strengthened around the top with 2"angle iron, fitted castors to the bottom, and welded two sleeves for pallet forks underneath.
They would carry it to the bin with the loadall and fill it up. Carry it back and put it down in the middle of sheep shed, if it was in the way for moving sheep and lambs etc, you could move it by hand out of the way. I'm sure you could do something similar with a smaller diesel tank.
They would carry it to the bin with the loadall and fill it up. Carry it back and put it down in the middle of sheep shed, if it was in the way for moving sheep and lambs etc, you could move it by hand out of the way. I'm sure you could do something similar with a smaller diesel tank.
These are fantastic ,
Great company to deal with
Great company to deal with
Couldn’t fill from my bulk bin . Too high
Handy how it can tip forward
sorry missed that bit in your post, they also do a 750kg bale lifter/ forklift bin type