Mixer-wagon

A fodder mixing wagon is an agricultural vehicle with technical facilities for crushing and mixing of different feed (ground and power feed types, such as silage, corn meal, sugar beet, concentrated feed, and others). Through the gift of crushed and mixed feed, it should be made the cattle impossible to select and to eat only individual feed ingredients. Mixer feeders regularly come in PMR and TMR feeding systems used.

Variants

Mixer feeders are available in various designs. There are basically two tractor-drawn to distinguish PTO-driven machines and self-propelled models. The self-propelled automatically run facilities are counted, which move in the stable, for example, as induction loops or rail- bunde mixer feeders and are equipped with its own engine.

Both variants, towed and self-propelled mixer feeders are widespread both as a foreign as well as self-loading. Fremdbefüller must be filled with a charger as tractor with front loader, wheel loaders, telescopic handlers or the like. Self-loading, however, have a device with which the fodder can be loaded into the mixing container without an additional charger. This requires, inter alia, milling, cutting blades, or integrated in the vehicle block cutters. An external filling is still possible even when selbstbefüllenden mixer.

Furthermore, the following embodiments of the mixing technique used can be distinguished:

• For vertical screw mixers, the feed is cut and mixed by one or more stationary worm. The discharge of the blended feed can be adjusted hydraulically -to-use slider to the right and or left or rear. The market share of this variant is currently in Germany more than 75 percent.
• Horizontal screw mixers at the feed of up to four underlying screw is mixed.
• In free-fall mixers (paddle, reeling, or bar blender, mixer with revolving chain mixing and mixing turbines ), the feed is only slightly crushed and mixed mainly via peripheral parts taking advantage of falling movements. They are particularly lining gently.

The discharge is quantified using the rotation of the mixing tools through a lateral opening. In order not to drive the feed and thus to keep loose, there are conveyor belts that take the lining next to the lane of the feed mixer. In newer versions of the feed discharge is sometimes done ( technically wrong often called fan ) using a spinner. This requires a lot of driving force, but is also able to distribute straw as bedding.

Many diet mixers are equipped with a scale so that the animals diets with constant proportions of various food components can be provided.

The dimensions of the feed mixer is based on the size of the livestock to be fed, per cubic meter of container contents can about 8 cows are fed.