HP req. for feed grinder

df · Jul 29, 2012

What HP will be req. to pull a NH 355 like it ought to be pulled?

RGMartin · Jul 29, 2012

What are you grinding? How fine of screen?

80-100 hp would be a reasonable start. Is it a 540 PTO unit?

thurlow · Jul 29, 2012

Had one WAY back when; 4020 would pull it, but a 4430 or 1066 pulled it better.

60 acre hillside · Jul 29, 2012

How much time can you give it? The absolute minimum will be about 50 hp and from that as big as you can hook up or whatever you have.

rrlund · Jul 29, 2012

The manual for my 354 just says minimum 3 plow tractor. I can run it OK with my 53 horse Oliver 1550,but I usually use the 90 horse 1850 diesel. The guy who had it before me always used a 56 horse 1600 with no trouble at all.

gene bender · Jul 29, 2012

What are you grinding and how fine.

Nate V. IA · Jul 29, 2012

If you are short of time and have an unlimited budget I would start with 100 hp and go up from there. If you are like me and have more time than money a 50 hp tractor will run it but it'll make her bark and I don't stop the pto until the grain tank is half empty.

Matt in Mich · Jul 29, 2012

I agree. My Oliver 88 (39 HP)will run the grinder, but if you crowd her too much it sure makes her jump. The Case 1030 (90+ HP) does it a lot better and quicker.

M Nut · Jul 29, 2012

I have ground feed with my 55hp 170 Allis Chalmers, but any of my 70-95hp tractors do it better and faster.

notjustair · Jul 29, 2012

We ran the mixer grinder with an M Farmall. It was kind of nice cause you threw in a couple shovels-full and then waited. I remember it really working hard when the cakes of alfalfa went in. When we finally switched to the IH 966 the slow pace was over.

Bleeding Orange SW Iowa · Jul 30, 2012

For years, we have used AC D-17s to grind ear corn as fast as we can rake it into the hopper. We use a coarse screen for that (~1" holes, maybe?) and it really eats it up. When we grind a little bit of chicken feed (2 corn/1 oats) on a fine screen, though, the oats really slow things down. It doesn't have much trouble with shell corn alone. D-17s should be in the mid-50s on horsepower.

RodinNS · Jul 30, 2012

You can get by with 60 horse and do a reasonable amount of grinding. If you want to push oats through a 5/16" screen at a good rate you better have 100 horse in front and that will get worked...

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