i plan on using a hammermill to grind my corn with cobbs, i have a grain leg and i am currently looking for a bin to put my finished feed mixture into, anyone do this as well? and how fast is will a hammermill grind?
We put our ground feed into a standing bulk bin and it works well, although we feed it out in a week or two. If it's going to be full a long time you risk getting it damp from any leaks or even drawing moisture from the metal sides. I have neighbors with wood bulk bins they have filled by farmers exchange and they work very well also. We also have a Grainery with a concrete floor and sometimes we will unload the grinder mixer right onto the floor and fill buckets with scoop shovels as we need it, we don't leave it there long ofcoarse being concrete. not sure on the hammermill I was a kid last time we used one, we went to a grinder mixer in the early 90's and been using one ever since.
I have a 12" hammer mill that I have not had the pleasure of using yet. When I got it I was talking to a local Amish fella and he said it should be able to grind a ton of ear corn in about 20 minutes. We will see when the corn is dry.
We use a Farmhand grinder/mixer, so I don't know about the hammermill. We used to keep the ground ear corn in a wooden granary, which worked well until the poor granary (older than my dad) finally started to give out. We now put it into the old granary inside the barn. Our barn granary has a concrete floor with concrete sides, and we usually put two grinder/mixer loads in at once. We usually have it used up in a couple of weeks, although it will last much longer. We avoided using that concrete granary for years out of fear of spoiling the ground ear corn, but that has not been a problem for the last two years.
I had planned on putting a galvanized stock tank under the bagger on my hammermill and filling that. With the five or six animals I have that should last a few weeks. Someday I hope to build a corn crib with a grainery built into it.
That should work pretty well. We use an old galvanized hog waterer to hold our ground chicken feed (shell corn and oats), and it keeps the feed well. Those are good for smaller quantities, and they are portable.