Reviewing Mixers

After researching each mixer I found out that depends on what you want these mixers can deliver. I couldn't find prices on these mixers to compare each one. When I look at each mixer the NDE, and Patz were the most similar for size and number of vertical mixers in each. Where as the Jay-lor need two vertical mixers to have the same capacity. Since I couldn't find any actual new prices I couldn't find any waranties. When I compare each mixer they all do the same job very similar and it is mainly a matter of personal preference. I believe that the NDE mixer is the best due to weight, design, and from the reviews that I read and how they all say how consistant the feed was from batch to batch.

Patz TMR Mixer

This Patz mixer model 1100 V615 can hold 690 cubic feet of material. This mixer is 117 inches tall, and 228 inches long. This mixer weighs 9,550 pounds empty. This mixer has a front unloading door. This mixer runs on a 1000 pto. This mixer requires at least a tractor with 110 horsepower. This mixer has a single vertical mixer that has 9 knives to grind and mix feed.

I got most of my information from this website http://www.patzag.com/

Jay-lor TMR Mixer

This is a Jay-lor portable mixer model 3650. This mixer is 91 inches tall, and 281 inches long. This model weighs 11,484 pounds empty. This mixer is run by 540 pto. This mixer only needs a tractor that has 100 horsepower. This mixer holds 690 cubic feet of material. This mixer is a twin screw which has two vertical mixers inside. This mixer has 14 knives to chop up the feed into a ration. This mixer has a front end door and a conveyor that dumps the feed out the side.

I got most of my information from this website http://jaylor.com/index.php

ATI Website

To futher my studies I chose to attend Ohio State ATI in Wooser and major in dairy production to help me manage and start up my own farm one day. This is a link that will bring you to Ohio State ATI's web site

NDE TMR Mixer

These are pictures of NDE TMR Mixers this is a model 702. This mixer is 108 inches tall with an optional 12 inch rubber piece on top. The mixer is 109 inches wide and weighs 10,230 pounds when empty. This mixer is run on a 1000 pto and takes a tractor that has at least 110 horse power 130 horse power to mix the rations. This mixer can hold 670 cubic feet of material, and has 5 knives on a single vertical mixer to chop up corn silage, hay, grains, concentrates to be fed to cows as a complete mixed ration.

The information I recieved for this came from http://www.ndeco.com/vertmixr.htm

Blog Project

For this project I chose to evaluate three different types of TMR mixers that are used by dairy farmers to make complete rations for their cows. The three mixers I chose where NDE, Jaylor, and Patz portable mixers. I compared these mixers first by capacity, height, weight empty, and the number on knives. A TMR mixers is a mixer that creates a total mixed ration for dairy farmers to feed their cows. This type of feeding is so that when a cow eats she gets corn silage, hay, grains, and concentrates all at once. This is beneficial because this gives a cow all the nutrients she needs in the least amount of time and can get the cow to producing more milk faster.