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coonie minnie

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Today I had the New Holland mixer mill out to grind "calf feed." I did two loads- corn, canola meal, soy hull pellets, mineral and vitamins. Temperature was a balmy, 2 degrees, with damp, cloudy skies.

We've had this mill since the early 90's. Before that was a Deere 400. The scale was a major reason for the upgrade.
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When I started farming in 1981 I bought a 355 brand new. It was cheap because it was mechanical drive rather than hydraulic, which is what most were then. Was a good mixer as long as I had it.
 
I don't miss those feed grinding days. Seems like we always had to do it at the worst times. When we had hogs our first grinder was a JD 700 flat bottom. Then we went to a NH 357 and ended with a 358 like yours including the scale. We ran ours with a JD 5010. When we got out of the hogs, we sold the 358 for what we paid for it. However, we still had the 700 so we rebuilt it just in case we ever had to grind a load of feed and now it sits in the corner of the shed gathering dust.
 
Good pictures as always. Back in the day there was mostly Farmhand grinder-mixers around here sold by a local IH dealer. The NH always looked like a well built machine to me. A friend in college had a 357 on the family dairy that I saw being used one time.
 
Back in the day on the farm in KS, if I remember right we had a 357, I know it had the larger mill which I think was a 21 in. I think the small was 16 in. It also had the larger mixer like that one looks to have. The tank cone is nearly 4 foot in diameter at the bottom and inside is another mix cone that turned with the vertical auger. When that tank was nearly full it took a fair bit of power to turn it. We used the Farmall M I now have on it most all the time. When that tank was near full there wasnt much left to power the hammer mill. The old M spent quite a bit of the time on that thing with the governor holding the carb throttle plate wide open. Quite often that was my after school job to grind a batch of hog feed. We farrowed in a 17 sow house, with 3 sets of sows a year. We would fatten out all the pigs produced, which counts up to quite a few with 10 - 15 per litter. Later they bought one with a smaller mixer, that one a Farmall 300 could run in a pinch.
 
The canopy is a plastic one from All States made for compact tractors. The guy wanted to get one this summer, and I liked the looks of the factory yellow ones, but they are pretty spendy. This was about 1/4th the price.

Looks a little odd, but very functional. I think it is a little quieter than the yellow steel ones, too. The few of those I've been around seemed to really amplify the noise.
 
Yes, the flat bottom mixer in this one takes a lot of power. I've used a smaller tractor to unload, and it will work a 50-60 hp tractor HARD just to unload.
 
bring back memories used to do about three loads every few days with all the animals grinders were always gehl units went thru several now all gone so are the animals
 
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