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New Floor Design Highlights
Gehl Box Spreaders
WEST BEND, Wise. - Gehl
Company’s new 100 Series box
spreaders incorporate a Clad-Tuff
floor design for smoother, trouble
free manure spreading.
Clad-Tuff is a gel-coated, fiber
reinforced plastic (FRP) plywood
floor. The top surface has an extra
slippery coating. This coating is
integrated with the underlying
woven fiberglass which, in turn, is
4ieat bonded to the top and bottom
of the plywood.
“This creates a smooth, slick,
seamless panel,” says Brad
Boncher, material handling
A special gel coating makes Gehl 100-Series spreaders
resistant to corroding manure acids.
Coba-Select Sires Open House
COLUMBUS, Ohio
Coba/Select Sires, Inc. will host
it’s third Open House at Select
Sires, Inc. near Plain City, Ohio on
Tuesday, June 24, beginning with
registration at 10 a.m. Dr. Wallace
E. Erickson, general manager of
COBA, says the Open House is
planned for members, customers
and friends in Coba’s Ohio Division
including Ohio, northwestern
Pennsylvania, eastern Indiana and
western West Virginia.
The Open House morning ac
tivities will include touring Select
Vicon Names Outstanding Dealer
Jim Huber, (left) Triple H Equipment, Peach Bottom, has
been named Vicon Farm Machinery's outstanding dealer for
1985 by President Dennis Wright (right).
Huber received a plaque in recognition of the honor at a
farewell banquet in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Vicon
entertained a group of 100 dealers and wives who qualified
for the Holland trip for having made their 1985 sales goals.
Vicon Farm Machinery's headquarters are in Chesapeake,
Virginia.
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product manager. “The result is a
specially constructed floor with the
top and bottom sealed against
liquids and acids to virtually
eliminate decay and
delamination.”
The slick Clad-Tuff surface also
reduces the force needed to break
a frozen apron loose from the floor.
Boncfier emphasizes that less
apron pull means less wear and
tear on drives and apron chains.
r iVe spreader sizes, from 135 to
425 bushels, are offered in the new
100 Series line. All come with
Gehl’s full ten year warranty on
the floor and sides.
Sires and Select Embryo’s
facilities near Plain City and the
Darby Creek Sires-In-Waiting
facility at Unionville Center.
After lunch, a brief program will
begin, led by Fred Friday,
president of Coba/Select Sires.
Richard Chichester, general
manager of Select Sires and
several Select Sires staff will make
brief presentations with closing
comments by Dr. Erickson.
For more information contact:
Lisa L. Keller, Communications
Assistant, 614-878-5333.
Monitor Provides Feed-Back On Harvest
MANKATO, Minn. - Micro-
Irak’s Yield Irak is an electronic
combine monitor that provides
accurate in-field measurement of
bushels per acre, total bushels
harvested, speed in MPH and total
acres worked.
The system provides on-the-go
measurement of speed and
acreage so the farmer or custom
combiner can continually monitor
his progress and maintain a
constant rate for maximum ef
ficiency.
The bushels per acre and total
bushel count are updated each
time the combine’s unloading
auger is operated. The bushels per
acre function is divided into two
counters with independent resets
so yields can be pinpointed by the
tankful or over an entire field. With
this type of information the farmer
can assess the effects of weeds,
insects or weather; compare the
performance of different seed
varieties, establish yield records
for each field or soil type; and load
trucks within legal limits.
Setting up the system basically
requires connecting it to the
combine’s 12-volt electrical
system, entering the combine’s
swath width and installing and
calibrating two sensors.
Knight Announces New Manure Spreader
BRODHEAD, Wise. - Knight
Manufacturing of Brodhead,
Wisconsin, announces the Model
1514 “Slinger.” This is the newest
model in their side expeller
manure spreaders. The 1514
about 1,600 gallons, joins the 912
about 1,000 gallons, and the 2,500
about 2,700 gallons, in the Knight
line.
The innovative Knight spreaders
utilize a heavy, fully-flighted auger
to move material forward into a
series of paddles, which force it
into 12 nine-pound hammers
turning at over 800 RPM. These
peel the material off and sling it
over an even spread pattern of 30
to 50 feet.
Slurry manure or pen-packed
can be handled effectively with the
“Slingers.”
In addition to dairymen, the
Knight “Slingers” have been
enthusiastically accepted by
poultry people, lime sludge
operations, and city waste
New Crowd
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, 111. - A
newly developed cow control gate,
featuring a totally suspended
design and automatic turnaround,
is now available from Westfalia
Systemat, Elk Grove Village,
Illinois.
The Westfalia “Time Save”
Crowd Gate provides a safe and
economical means of “automatic
advance/stop” control that
combines sound and electrical
impulses to guide cows into prep
stalls and milking parlors more
efficiently. Cows quickly leam to
respond to the gentle urging of
electrical impulses and soon learn
to react to the buzzer alone.
Lightweight and easy to install,
the “Time Saver” Crowd Gate’s
totally suspended, “no track”
design eliminates the need for
reinforced fencing or support rails.
Offering variable installation
height, the “Time Saver” fits any
cow holding area with either side
or rear access. The standard unit
accommodates holding areas up to
22 feet wide and 75 feet long, and
can be adapted to larger in
stallations up to 32 feet wide and
100 feet long.
Engineered for simplicity and
practicality, the “Time Saver”
Crowd Gate’s automatic tur
naround feature automatically
reverses the gate when it reaches
the end of its travel. To ensure
continuous, trouble-free operation,
all components are permanently
mounted, separate from the gate.
Yield Irak’s combine monitor can be calibrated to measure
corn, soybeans, wheat and other small grains.
acre count when turning or moving
Yield Trak can be used on any between fields.
make or model of combine and Yield Trak comes with in
calibrated to measure corn, stallation hardware, wiring, an
soybeans, wheat and other small operator’s manual and a field/crop
grains. Features include an booklet for recording management
illuminated five-digit display, information,
electronic memory for storing Fo. further information call
totals, a tank empty sensor and a Micro-Trak Systems, Inc. toll-free
manual nm/hold switch to stop the at 1-800-328-9613.
Knight's "Slinger" side expeller spreaders come in three
capacities, from 1600 to 2700 gallons.
management systems. sales areas, distributors, and
Knight equipment is available representative agents,
throughout the United States and p or information, phone 605497-
Canada through a series of direct 2131.
Gate Is Totally Suspended
Westfalia’s crowd gate eliminates need for support rails
with totally suspended design.
The suspended trainers are made eluded with the gate,
of durable, polyethylene coated For additional information,
copper. Buzzers, chargers, control contact Westfalia Systemat, 1862
box, heavy-duty limit switches and Brummel Drive, Elk Grove
all installation hardware are in- Village, IL.
Southern States Offers Milk Replacers
RICHMOND, Va. - Southern manufactured by Land O’Lakes,
States Cooperative’s new Insta- Minneapolis, Minn., using a new
Mix milk replacers feeds will save process which improves solubility,
dairymen time and fuss in mixing “The new manufacturing
and provide the same amount of method is called an
nutrition, according to Bob ‘agglomeration process,’ which
Buehler, manager of dairy and clusters the milk replacer
swine feed services for the co-op. ticks and gives the feed the instant
The feeds for calves are now being mixing quality,” Buehler says.