Feed trucks

feed truck

Feed truck (Compound feed truck) is a special vehicle designed for the transportation of feed. In fact, the feed truck is a food barrel designed to transport bulk cargo with the possibility of unloading it by gravity or by special mechanisms. The feed truck is loaded by gravity through the upper loading hatches. Such hatches in the feed truck are usually several, the more the loading of the feed truck will be fuller.

Кормовоз

Car feed truck - a barrel for the transportation of feed

Types of feed trucks

Feed trucks can be road and rail.

If the feed truck is rail it is often called Hopper. That is, Hopper is a self-unloading car for bulk cargo.

hopper

Hopper is a car - a feed truck.

 

If the feed truck is built taking into account road transport, it is called a car feed truck or compound feed truck.

Кормовоз

Special car for transportation of compound feed - feed truck (compound feed truck)

Among automobile feed trucks the most widespread in Ukraine are:

  • Dry feed loaders (DRM) are the largest, but in fact these machines have long been obsolete due to their low efficiency: low load capacity (5-8 tons), high fuel consumption per unit of feed transported (up to 40 liters per 100). km.), low unloading height (7 m.). Such cars are most often presented on the basis of GAZ, Kamaz, Kraz, ZIL. Such screw trucks were replaced by modern screw food barrels. (There is no ZSK in our fleet)
    Кормовоз - ЗСК

    Feed truck - ZSK on the basis of zil 130

  • Screw food barrels are modern analogues of ZSK. Inside the barrel of the feed truck there is an auger, with the help of which the compound feed is unloaded to a height of more than 15 m. This car due to its characteristics is one of the most versatile feed trucks today (in our fleet there are several such feed trucks)
    Кормовоз - шнековая бочка

    Modern feed truck with screw unloading

  • A forage truck with a tipper barrel is a food barrel in which the trailer must be lifted for unloading. As a result of this design, a feed truck with a tipper barrel can transport not only compound feed, but also any other dry bulk cargo. Also a distinctive feature of this equipment is the increased load capacity (up to 36 tons) and volume (up to 75 m3). The limitation of feed trucks of this type is the presence of one section. Such a feed truck can be equipped with a compressor, but it is not necessary, because in such feed trucks in the lower part of the barrel there is a special hole through which unloading can be carried out. For use of such forage trucks the equal platform is necessary. There are several dozen such feed trucks in our fleet.
    Кормовоз с киперной бочкой

    Feed truck with a barrel

  • Pneumatic unloading feeder (pneumatic barrel) is a non-lifting food barrels that can be divided into compartments for the possibility of simultaneous transportation of several types of feed (up to 10). Such feed trucks have a volume of up to 60 m3 and a capacity of up to 30 tons. And are the most versatile for small businesses or businesses with a large amount of feed consumed. Also a feature of pneumatic feed trucks is unloading by means of the compressor.
    Кормовоз с пневмобочкой

    Секційний кормовоз із пневмобочкою

  • Feed truck - hitch. Such compound feed due to division into the main part and the trailer has the increased maneuverability and is the most passable and is intended for work on small off-road. Such a feed truck can come for unloading almost anywhere.
    Кормовоз - сцепка

    Кормовоз - зчіпка

Advantages of the feed truck before other equipment

Основними перевагами кормовозів перед самоскидами, зчіпками та зерновозами є:

  • Physical safety of goods transported due to the fact that neither the driver nor outsiders have access to feed. This is easy to check by sealing the upper loading hatches and the outlet.
  • Biosafety of goods transported due to the fact that the feed truck is made of metal alloys intended for the transport of food cargo, such as aluminum. That is, the presence of feed inside the barrel does not change its properties.
  • Microbiological safety is achieved due to the absence of environmental influences on feed. Because the feed truck is completely closed, no rain, snow, fly or bugs can get inside the feed truck, which can spoil the feed.
  • Ability to unload at high altitudes,
  • Possibility to refuse packing and repacking of cargo. Just think how much money you will save by giving up unnecessary extra staff and staff.

Installation of feed trucks

Устройство кормовоза

Feed truck. Schematic image.

 

Types of cargo transported by feed trucks

Feed trucks can transport almost any dry bulk cargo, both food and non-food, but it is important to understand that after the transportation of various goods must be washed or even disinfected vehicles.

The feed truck is capable of transporting at least those loads that are listed in the table below:

List of food dry bulk cargo transported by feed trucks List of non-food dry bulk cargo transported by feed trucks
  • Compound feed
  • Flour
  • Sugar
  • Grain and cereals
  • Cake
  • Beans and legumes
  • Malt
  • Cereals
  • Cake
  • Shrot
  • Wheat
  • Corn
  • Sunflower
  • Cement
  • Lime
  • Chalk
  • Slag
  • Inert dust
  • Chemistry
  • Soda
  • Koalin