Best Grinder Mixer?

[rustred]

After this winter and snow I am feeling the same already. Just have a few but it’s still the same work. Thought couple more years and enough. Right behind u in age

 

[rrlund]

After this winter and snow I am feeling the same already. Just have a few but it’s still the same work. Thought couple more years and enough. Right behind u in age

For about a half a day this past fall, I thought this might be the right time to cut back and give up all of my rented ground next year, just keep what I could feed on my own land. Most of the rented ground was in corn and will have to be reseeded to alfalfa over the next two years, so I figured instead of that, just drop it, but like you, I know it's doesn't take more than another ten minutes a day to do chores now than it would if I cut back. Same with field work. A couple of more days on each process. It's not worth giving up that much income for the little bit of time I'd save. It's not like I have a job to go to if I wasn't doing what I'm doing.

 

[DoubleR]

We have always ran Deere grinder mixers and they have been good to us. We started out with the 400 had a few of them and now the 700. Parts are still available from Deere on them. We grind once or twice a week depending on time of year and 3 big cribs of cob corn a year along with shell corn, barely, oats, soybeans for ore cattle. I like our deere's they have been good to us but I do like nh has that extended side auger that swings around that would be handy, they are a good mill also have think the gehl mixers are good the later ones but not sure on parts for them!

I had a JD 400 which was pretty good to me. When I went to my local JD dealer they laughed at me when I asked about part availability. The gear box was starting to make me nervous as the guy I brought it from said he had replaced it when he had it. I sold it and brought a old Artsway 325. and have been happy with that the last 8 years or so. Although I only feed out a few steers and grind a crib full of ear corn every year along with a couple ton of chicken feed a year. If I was a little younger I would be thinking of upgrading and would probably be looking at a New Holland or another Artsway.

 

[rrlund]

I had a JD 400 which was pretty good to me. When I went to my local JD dealer they laughed at me when I asked about part availability. The gear box was starting to make me nervous as the guy I brought it from said he had replaced it when he had it. I sold it and brought a old Artsway 325. and have been happy with that the last 8 years or so. Although I only feed out a few steers and grind a crib full of ear corn every year along with a couple ton of chicken feed a year. If I was a little younger I would be thinking of upgrading and would probably be looking at a New Holland or another Artsway.

Same thing happened to me on that John Deere 700. There was no need for the parts guy to be such an *** about it, but because he was, things got ugly that day.

 

[matthies]

The local Deere dealer sold both JD and Gehl grinders, you had to look around to find a JD grinder, Gehls all over the place. Then came in the New Hollands to replace the Gehls and JD. Don't ever remember Dad doing anything to the grinder other than grease it, but it was shedded and ground 3+ loads a week for hogs and ground small squares of 4th alfalfa for the sows.

 

[NY 986]

The local Deere dealer sold both JD and Gehl grinders, you had to look around to find a JD grinder, Gehls all over the place. Then came in the New Hollands to replace the Gehls and JD. Don't ever remember Dad doing anything to the grinder other than grease it, but it was shedded and ground 3+ loads a week for hogs and ground small squares of 4th alfalfa for the sows.

Gehl was typically with a White dealer around here so the dealer and their salespeople had a free hand to push Gehl. A lot of NH was sold but they had dealers ten minutes apart when small dairies were a thing. Quite a number of JD around and IH whose grinder mixer was made by Artsway. Yes, low humidity storage when the grinder mixer was not in use greatly helped to extend the life of that machine.

 

[David from Kansas]

Demand is still high despite high prices and low supply. I just hope they stay up there until I have to quit because I just can't do it anymore. There's bred cow sale coming up Friday at the sale barn. It'll be interesting to see how they go.

Livestock, particularly beef cattle are holding at good prices, cow/calf pairs bred for spring calving are topping $5000 in many cases. We just sold our small herd to our youngest son after having a sort of partnership with him for the past 5 years or so. We retained ownership of the cow herd, we provided the summer pasture, son provided the winter feed and feeding, as much of the care that he had time for as he was working a full time off-farm job, we weaned the fall born calves in spring, and returned them to grass we owned, sold them in late summer as yearlings. Worked good but age has caught up with me so we sold him the cows with fall calves and will rent him summer/winter pasture but the care is almost entirely up to him. He has a 11 year old son who is able to help him some.