V-Mac Diet Feeder
V-Mac Diet Feeder on its own Gantry
A Royal Ulster Agricultural Society award winner, the V-Mac Diet Feeder Silo comes complete with it’s own gantry and is simply the best solution for fast filling Diet Feeder wagons.
Benefits
- Money saving - Comes with its own gantry, no structural steel is required.
- Low Maintenance – there are no electrical or moving parts so this solution is relatively maintenance free.
- Time saving – simply reverse or drive under the gantry and fill your diet feeder wagon direct from the silo. The feed is gravity feed into your wagon with the flow rate controlled by a pulley and chain mechanism.
Construction
- Galvanized steel strip body with interlocked rib providing smooth wall silo shell. Stainless steel nuts and bolts used throughout.
- All other parts are either made from fabricated galvanized steel or hot dipped galvanized mild steel.
- Low angle galvanized lid.
- Anti Separation chamber – Heavy duty filler pipe bend connects into the chamber which helps prevent the feed separating as its blown into the silo
- Heavy duty (3.5mm) filler pipe.
- Heavy duty legs – 8mm x 100m x 100mm hot dipped galvanized box section legs.
- All Leg Bracing is fully galvanized.
- Leg Bracing.
All metals and galvanizing are to EU and BS standards.
Features
- 12 inch inspection hatch on the roof.
- Ladder guard on roof to connect ladder.
- Large inspection window on cone - only available on silos up to 900 cubic feet capacity.
- Access hatch on the cone (18 inch diagonal).
- Sight glasses – one on the cone and one on the silo body above the cone. Extra sight glasses can be fitted upon request.
- 3.2m drive thru height.
- 3.35m width between the drive thru legs.
- Chain and pulley system to open the silo can be fitted on either side - to suit where the weigher display is on your feeder wagon.
Base Requirements
- 5m x 5m x 30cm – 35 Newton concrete – no reinforcement.
Optional extras
All our silos are custom built so that we can ensure that all your requirements are fully met. Some common extras that customers require include:
- Painting the silo to match sheds or to meet planning regulations – in either brown, grey or green.
- Filler and Breather pipes – can be fitted anywhere around the silo to suit your yard layout.
- Ladder with safety cages can be fitted as required.
- Extra sight glasses can be fitted as required.
- Heavy duty lid with Safety Rail can be supplied – this is particularly useful if you are going to fill the silo with a conveyor.
- Conveyor hatches – can be fitted to larger silos.
- 10 inch bagging pipe – allows you to fill barrows or bags.
- Extra Height – the drive thru height can be increased if required.
Dimensions
Handy Hints
Do you need to store two types of feed to put into your feeder wagon? Why not consider a split silo?
All silos from 800 cubic feet capacity and higher can be supplied as split silos.