Expandable bale carrier and feeder

Details Expandable bale carrier and feeder Expandable bale carrier and feeder

1992-05-01

1994-11-08

Mancene, Gene

Animal husbandry

Feeding device

Racks

A01K 110

Patent

active

053617240

ABSTRACT:
An expandable hay bale carrier and feeder and flexible vehicle for feeding livestock include a wheeled chassis with a bed thereon for supporting the bales, a pair of spaced end walls and a pair of spaced side walls. The side walls are mounted by a telescopically slidable assembly to move transversely of the bed between a first maximum width position spaced from the end walls and a second minimum width position adjacent the end walls. As the livestock feed and reach for more hay the force which they exert against the side walls automatically moves the side walls toward the minimum width position as the hay is consumed, and the respective ends of the side walls may move independently of each other to compensate for unequal consumption of the hay. The side walls may be opened to permit the loading and unloading of the hay bales and the livestock may feed from all sides of the feeder. The chassis is flexible to permit it to twist about a longitudinal axis if one of the wheels encounters a change in elevation in the terrain as the carrier and feeder is being moved in the field and permits the carrier and feeder to assume a low center of gravity.

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The Cattle Buffet, Schilling Systems Ltd., 1989.
Bomar Round Bale & Feeder, photographs, undated.

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