Anyone have a newer grinder mixer?

Buckeye

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I'm looking at buying a new or fairly new used grinder mixer. I have looked at Frontier/H&S and Arts Way. Are there any other manufacturers? Anyone have a newer grinder mixer or have any opinions on what one would be best? They are pricey and I hate to buy something sight unseen. I've been down that road before. Sometimes good and sometimes a big mistake.
 
We have a older 1150 IH grinder mixer. Not what you are looking at....directly, BUT these were made by Arts way. I see new arts way grinders at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville each year.....and our IH looks still remarkably like the new arts way. Ours has been a good grinder. Cant complain
 
I am pretty sure the new H & S is the old Gehl design. The Frontier is somebody else's design as Deere gave up on its old 400/700 series. I don't think you can go wrong with any of them but they sure are pricey after looking at the build your own function on the manufacturer website.
 
The Frontier is made by H&S. They are a very close copy of the Gehl. A dealer told me H&S tried to buy the rights from Gehl but they would not sell so they just copied it with a few changes. It looks like a great machine but at $30,000 seems expensive.
 
Depends on what you want to grind?
A roller mill is second to none if you want to grind grain.
 
I am grinding ear corn. Presently have a NH 355. Grind 250
loads a year. Looking to update. I would be interested in a
like new NH 355 with a long unloading auger if I could find
one.
 
Check on Auctiontime there is a very late model Gehl that was used like one or two years and has been shedded all its life. It looks like new.
 
The biggest thing H&S did is change the weak unloading auger design that Gehl had. I think there are only 2 designs left for grinder mixers. The Arts-Way and the H&S/Frontier. Lorenz dropped mixers about the same time New Holland did.
 
That's a lot of grinding. What are you feeding all that ear corn to? We used to grind twice a week for hogs and steers with a Gehl 95 for 25 years. It was a darn good machine and I still have it. Now it only has to do MAYBE 1 batch every 2 months.
 
We had a Gehl 125 that saw several loads a week for years - ground corn (and ear corn) for the cattle and ground milo for hogs. The ear corn could bring a 656 to its knees even with the big screen.

I swear I still cough up milo dust once in the while and its been 30 years since I scooped it into that machine.
 

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