Size of bore buckling?

[20kidsonhill]

For those of you that are using a ton of grain (literally), are you buying it bulk and if so, how do you store it? Looking at grain bins and they are not cheap.

We are going though a ton about every 6 weeks, but there will be a point were we go through a ton a mong or every 3 weeks.
We use 55 gallon barrels, they hold 300 lbs each. 350 piled to the top.
and we have a wooden feed bin made out of plywood and a flip up lid on hinges, pretty much just a wooden box and we set it on a pallet with heavy duty wheels underneath. the wheels were about 100 dollars and your plywood would be peices, so I think around $120 and some hinges and nails. It is not easy to push with almost a ton of feed in it. We talked about making two of them and putting half a ton in each.We roll them out to the truck, which parks at the edge of our concrete surface. This works for us and our barn set up. But if you don't have concrete or a really hard flat surface there is no way they would roll. We use a dolly to move the barrels, but even that is not real easy with 300 lbs each in them. The boony(spelling?) on the feed truck can move and he shuts of the feed flow and we adjust the barrels or he moves the booney. We have been getting 2,800 lbs delivered. That is why we are using the barrels as well. We have another farm that comes and buys our feed so I get extra for them during each delivery. they only use like 500 lbs every 2 or 3 months.

The feed trucks booney can navigate a doorway, so they did say we could just put a perminant feed bin in the shed and they would drop the feed into it through the door way. They said they would come out and look at our set up and make suggestions.
We just lift the lid and scoop out of it. We don't have any little door at the bottom. I dealt with stuff like that for years on farms and those little doors dive be crazy. So I just scoop from the top. It is a little hard to reach all the feed at the back when you get near the bottom, but I just put blocks in front of the bin to stand on and use a flat bottom shovel to pull the feed forward when I get that low.

The trucks are heavy, your driveway has to hold up to the weight of the trucks.

We can also get it bagged, but it is $2.00 a bag, so $2 per every 50lbs more. WE are paying $10.20 for 50 lbs right now. Or $420 a ton.

You may want to start another thread under feeding, to get some attention. People may have stopped reading this thread.

 

[babsbag]

There is no concrete where I live, and pretty much nothing level either. I may have to do bags this year just to see how this works, I only have three boers kidding out in March- April so I am no where near the feed consumption that you are. I think I found a feed, now I just need to see if they sell it in bulk. I would have to go and get it, but not too far away if I am buying a ton at a time. They have these big bags that they will put it in and we have a small tractor, but I don't think she can lift a ton. If they would put it in barrels for me at the mill that might be the best answer for now; also varmit proof. Of course the dairy kids will be snacking on it too as they share a pasture. I am excited about tracking ADG with kids on a good feeding plan. I guess I need to find a set of scales too. I can only lift them onto the bathroom scales for so long. :/

 

[mdavenport0121]

My dad has cattle and uses a lot of grain. He uses an old 400 galvanized water tank that had a few holes in it. He stores the tank under a barn. A little over a ton will fit in it.

 

[20kidsonhill]

There is no concrete where I live, and pretty much nothing level either. I may have to do bags this year just to see how this works, I only have three boers kidding out in March- April so I am no where near the feed consumption that you are. I think I found a feed, now I just need to see if they sell it in bulk. I would have to go and get it, but not too far away if I am buying a ton at a time. They have these big bags that they will put it in and we have a small tractor, but I don't think she can lift a ton. If they would put it in barrels for me at the mill that might be the best answer for now; also varmit proof. Of course the dairy kids will be snacking on it too as they share a pasture. I am excited about tracking ADG with kids on a good feeding plan. I guess I need to find a set of scales too. I can only lift them onto the bathroom scales for so long. :/

jeffers sells as small calf sling and a hanging scale that will work up to a certain amount of weight for you to lift. We also have a more expensive scale, that the animals just stands in and it weight them. But that was really pricey.