Making a feed cutter with your own hands is quite simple. In this case, you need to show a little ingenuity and work with your hands. In fact, you can make a structure from old and unnecessary things. A good feed chopper can be made from washing machine. In this article, we will tell you how to feed your pets without much difficulty.
Feed cutter-grater
The simplest version of a feed cutter that you can make with your own hands is an ordinary grater. It should be clarified that This product is only suitable for small households. In order to make this design, you don’t even need drawings.
We take a stainless steel sheet, the approximate size is height 50 and width 30 centimeters. We use a punch to make holes using the same principle as in a regular grater, which is found in any kitchen.
The top of each hole must be bent. For greater convenience, the design needs to be supplemented wooden frame. The manual feed cutter is ready for use. The entire manufacturing process will take you no more than an hour, but the benefits when feeding animals will be very noticeable.
Grinder feed cutter
To make this model, you will need a metal bucket. It is recommended to use buckets made of of stainless steel, galvanized may react with some types of feed, and your animals will get food poisoning.
You need to make holes in the walls of the bucket, approximately 1.5 centimeters in diameter. The edges of the holes can be bent, as in the previous version. A small hole, approximately 1 centimeter in diameter, is also made in the bottom of the bucket.
After this, using metal corners and electric welding, construct the frame. The broken bucket is attached to the frame using a flange and seals. You should get a movable drum; this will be the main working part of the feed cutter. By the way, instead of a bucket, you can use a drum from an old washing machine, having previously made holes in it.
A receiving hopper for feed is installed above the drum. It can be made from sheets of metal or from another bucket, the bottom of which needs to be cut off. In order to give the drum the required rotation speed, a grinder is attached to the rear flange using a bolt. Having checked the reliability of the connections, you can begin testing; a simple do-it-yourself feed cutter from an angle grinder is ready.
The feed mass is poured from above into the receiving hopper. Under the influence of its own weight. The raw material presses on the drum, which acts as a grater. The grinding speed is adjusted using the rotation speed of the grinder. To prevent the crushed mass from flying out of the drum randomly, you can design a small door on door hinges.
It is worth noting that instead of an angle grinder, you can use an ordinary handle. In this case, you will get a large copy of a household meat grinder, only instead of minced meat, you will get a crushed lump for your livestock.
Before starting work, it is recommended to prepare drawings. The performance of such a design will directly depend on your capabilities. If you put in some effort, about 50 kilograms of feed will be guaranteed.
Feed cutter from washing machine
This is a more complex option, so before starting work, you need to make drawings. For a washing machine you will need a motor and a drum.
A hole must be drilled in the rear wall of the drum; the diameter must correspond to the motor shaft. Along the edges, make four holes for mounting bolts. A small hole is cut into one of the walls through which the finished food will be thrown out.
The cutting part is attached to the motor shaft using bolts. It is worth noting that for this design you will need two knives. The first one looks like a propeller with slightly curved blades. It is installed closer to the bottom of the drum and its purpose is to throw the feed up and push out the crushed particles from the feed cutter.
The second knife is the main one cutting tool, it can be made from canvas old saw. The ends of this knife should be slightly deviated towards the bottom, this increases the performance of the design. It is better to sharpen with a double-edged blade.
The product is installed on a metal support made in the form of a stool and secured with bolts. To prevent feed from scattering in different directions during operation, it is recommended to make a lid with a hole for raw materials.
It is worth noting that the fraction of feed directly depends on the time they are in work area feed cutters. It is recommended to supplement the outlet hole with a damper and make a small hopper where the crushed mass will fall.
According to farmers' reviews, such a feed cutter is guaranteed to crush about 100 kilograms of feed per hour. This design is well suited for chopping a variety of vegetables and herbs.
As you can see, making a feed cutter with your own hands is not at all difficult. It is worth noting that this current models, which are successfully used on farms. You can try to reproduce one of them in your backyard or take these options as a basis and design your own version of a feed chopper.
Devices such as homemade feed cutter and feed choppers will help feed livestock much faster and more conveniently required quantity food. The presence of such tools is especially important if there are a lot of animals, and their food should be of different quality and degree of grinding.
You can make a feed cutter and other tools with your own hands from scrap items or unnecessary parts household appliances.
- 1. The first one includes a propeller with slightly concave blades. It should be installed closer to the bottom of the drum. Its tasks are to throw the feed up and push out the crushed particles from the feed cutter.
- 2. The second knife is the main cutting element; it can be made from an old saw blade. The following picture shows what the blades look like.
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Creating an electric feed cutter from a washing machine
In order to make this unit, you need to use some materials that can be extracted from old household appliances. Before you start creating electric feed cutter, you will need a washing machine, from which you will need to remove the motor and drum.
Hole
Specifications such as the width, height and length of the slot should be the same as the motor shaft. After the measurement has been taken, you need to start drilling the outer sides of the drum. Here you need to create three slots for the bolts - 2 identical and 1 smaller, as in the figure above.
One of the walls must have an outlet (for releasing feed) in the form additional details made of iron, which is separately attached to the drum. The finished product will come out of it. In the following figure you can see this design.
Fragment for ejecting feed from the drum
This completes the main stage. Now you need to start working with cutting part device.
Device blade
The cutting part must be secured to the motor shaft using bolts. For this design you need to use 2 knives:
The knives are slightly curved in shape. This increases the productivity of the electric feed cutter. After completing the creation of the device blade, you need to start making the support.
Electric feed cutter stand
The support in this device is a metal structure that resembles a stool. Attach to it assembled structure using bolts.
Stand
In the picture above you can see the stand in more detail. It does not need to be additionally covered with sheets of iron.
This completes the work of creating an electric feed cutter from a washing machine. The result is an effective feed cutter from a washing machine. This device is capable of processing much more feed than conventional manual grass cutters.
Feed cutter - schematic representation of the final result
Making a shredder from a cylinder or durable bucket
When working on creating a device, you first need to evenly separate one part of the gas vessel from the other, using a grinder, so that you get two almost identical cylinders. Next, you should take one half and prepare an iron mold for the blades, as shown in the following image.
Bottom of the cylinder
Having completed these manipulations, you can proceed to working with the blades. To do this you will need to bend them slightly. Then attach the knives with screws to the prepared iron disk, which should have pre-made slots.
The figure below shows in finished form what this fragment should look like.
Cutting elements
After creation cutting elements For a feed cutter, you should cut an opening from a cylinder using a grinder. This should be done on the side of the gas vessel.
Under the disk with the blades shown in the image above, you need to install an iron stand with a cut-out opening, which should look like a stool in appearance, to connect the disk and cutting elements to the engine.
A cylinder with a disk attached to an iron stand and a motor under it
The motor, in turn, is installed under an iron stand. Thus, a device for grinding feed is obtained. You need to attach a bucket to it, where the finished product will be poured - as in the image above.
How to make a feed cutter from an angle grinder?
A disk device can be made at home from a corner grinding machine. There are different drawings for this, but the most popular is the diagram of a feed cutter made from an angle grinder.
Feed cutter diagram
You can see everything in the diagram on the left necessary elements designs:
The electric feed cutter includes a bucket made of high-quality steel. In the image it is schematically represented by the number 2. At the bottom of this object, you should drill a hole in the center with a diameter of 1 cm - in the diagram this part is marked with the number 3. In the bottom of the bucket you also need to make holes along the edges (two on the right and left), the size of which should be 15 mm.
Next, you should prepare the stand - its parts are marked with numbers 4 and 6. Then make holes on its base (number 4 in the diagram) - just like at the bottom of the bucket on the outer sides. After this, fasten these two items with bolts. Next, you need to connect the motor from the grinder (number 7) to the disk (number 5). This completes the main stage of the work. You can begin to create the feed exit opening.
It is necessary to cut a hole at the bottom of the bucket and insert a part that will be designed to release food for animals (it can be seen in the diagram under number 2, near the base under number 4 at the cut site). The chopper must contain a lid with additional hole in the center (number 1). Feed is placed in it for subsequent processing. If necessary, the central part is additionally covered with a smaller lid so that the raw materials do not fly out during processing. This completes the creation of the feed cutter.
A do-it-yourself feed cutter can be made from any available material. At the same time, the savings will be quite noticeable. For example, a homemade feed cutter can be made from a gas cylinder or bucket, an old washing machine, an angle grinder, and much more. This is quite easy to do if you have the appropriate drawings at hand.
Making a feed cutter from a gas cylinder or bucket
Feed chopper in household indispensable device. With its help, you can quickly grind raw materials intended for the preparation of feed mixtures for livestock and poultry. Shredded feed is digested much faster, which allows the household to grow faster.
Sometimes the cost of a device with which livestock and poultry can be provided with high-quality chopped feed is beyond the reach of the farmer. But, an analogue can be made at home from scrap material. For example, a feed chopper can be made from a gas cylinder or bucket.
A do-it-yourself grass cutter or feed cutter is made from half a gas cylinder, which can be replaced with a durable bucket. To begin with, you need to make two parts from the balloon. You will need to cut off the bottom of one of them, and then make cuts along the entire surface. They should be staggered, approximately 10 millimeters wide. In order to give the slots the required shape, you need a punch, with the help of which the lower part of the slots remains flat, and the upper part acquires a rounded shape. With the help of this homemade shredder the feed will have a corresponding notch.
Both edges of the gas cylinder should be decorated with steel strips, for fastening which rivets are ideal. In order to be able to stretch steel rods into a homemade feed chopper, which can be made from a gas cylinder, two more strips with a hole with a diameter of 10 millimeters must be added to the existing strips. To securely fix the strips, it is recommended to weld them.
Having completed these manipulations, you can proceed to working with the handles. To do this they will need to be bent. On the part that remains flat, you need to place a housing with bearings. The final stage Making a feed cutter from a gas cylinder is the construction of a stand. It is recommended to make it from wood. As a stand a table will do made of wood, on which you will need to install homemade design from a gas cylinder. It is necessary to place a box on the table in which the raw materials for grinding will be placed. A container for crushed raw materials is installed at the bottom of the feed cutter. This could be the second part of the gas cylinder.
Grinder feed cutter
A feed chopper and grass cutter can be made at home from a grinder. This is quite simple to do, having a clear example in the form of devils, which can be different. As an example, consider the following drawing.
A feed cutter from a grinder involves the use of a bucket made of stainless steel, in which it is necessary to make holes with a diameter of 15 millimeters. The bottom of the bucket will also have a hole, the diameter of which is 1 centimeter. On next stage grass cutter, feed chopper from a grinder will be equipped with a frame. It can be made using welding and metal corners. A flange and seals are required to make reliable fastening buckets and frame. Thus, an electric grass cutter and feed chopper acquires a moving part - a drum, which is the main element of a home-made design.
The future electric grass cutter and feed chopper must be equipped with a hopper into which raw materials are placed for processing. You can make it from a bucket, from which you will need to remove the bottom. The operation of the electric feed chopper comes from a grinder, which is secured using bolts to a flange located at the rear of the structure. An electric grinder and feed chopper can work with different productivity, which depends on the speed of the grinder.
Feed cutter from a washing machine
If previous options for making homemade devices for grinding feed for pets and poultry could be made without drawings, then a grass cutter or feed cutter made from a washing machine cannot do without them. An example of what a drawing could look like is the following image:
A grass cutter, a do-it-yourself feed cutter, made from a washing machine, involves the use of a motor and a tank. First stage The work consists of making an opening in the back wall of the washing machine tub into which the motor shaft can be easily placed. The mounting bolts provide 4 holes, which will need to be made along the edges. Next, you need to decide on a place to make a hole through which the crushed raw materials will flow into the receiving hopper.
The grinding device should be bolted to the motor shaft. This device will work with greater productivity if it is prudently equipped with two knives. It is recommended to install one of the knives at the bottom of the structure. Its job is to lift the placed raw materials, as well as to move the already crushed material into the hopper. The purpose of the second knife is to directly chop the feed and grass.
As a support, you must use a metal structure resembling a stool. You will need to attach it to it using bolts finished design. For economical grinding of raw materials, the grass cutter can be equipped with a lid that prevents waste of raw materials. But there must be a hole in it through which raw materials will flow for processing.
The grinding of raw materials placed in such a homemade structure depends solely on how long it was processed. For ease of use, the hole through which the crushed raw materials exit the hopper can be closed with a damper, which will allow you to control the degree of its grinding.
Manufacturing option homemade device for grinding feed, grass, root crops from a washing machine can be called the most optimal. After all, working for an hour, the feed cutter is capable of processing up to 100 kilograms of feed. High operating power allows for high productivity, despite the fact that the device was manufactured at home.
It’s definitely worth getting a feed cutter, because with its help you can grind raw materials in a matter of minutes and prepare feed mixtures based on it, which will contain everything necessary for the growth of livestock, poultry vitamins and useful material. If you have no desire to spend money on purchasing finished model feed chopper, you can make it yourself, and the quality of the final product will not be affected.
As clear example, you can use the following videos, which will demonstrate the operating principle of popular models of feed choppers, assembled at home. However, if you decide to purchase ready-made equipment, then model range You can familiarize yourself with reliable feed cutters.
Video review
A vegetable cutter for a farmstead is an indispensable equipment for farm, speeding up the preparation of livestock feed. This is especially true in winter time when the vegetables used were stored in the basement and lost a certain percentage of moisture. Grating them or cutting them by hand is quite labor-intensive.
Technical characteristics of vegetable cutting machines
- Easy to use - just load the vegetables into the hopper and press the button.
- The presence of a pusher guarantees safety; food raw materials adhere more closely to the rotating knives, contact with fingers is excluded.
- High productivity - depending on the model, a vegetable cutter for livestock can chop 100, 200, 300, 400 kg of vegetables per hour.
- There is a switch on the body that allows you to stop the machine running at high speeds at any time.
- The loading hopper is wide enough to accommodate large pieces or full-sized vegetables (cabbage, zucchini, squash, etc.).
- Removable parts are attached to the body using latches and are easy to remove for subsequent cleaning.
- The equipment is installed on a horizontal surface and can be placed in the kitchen or other utility room.
- Stainless steel case (with or without enamel) is unpretentious to conditions environment– temperature and humidity indicators.
An electric vegetable cutter for a farmer is a hardy and durable tool, the motor of which can withstand heavy loads. This great alternative hand graters and machines for slicing vegetables due to the lack of labor costs (except for manipulations with loading raw materials into the machine).
On the website of the MosShef online store you can buy vegetable cutters for goats, pigs and other livestock from manufacturers Abat, Lepse, Torgmash and others. We advise customers on any technical issues free of charge, and offer equipment delivery services throughout Moscow and Russia.
Every farmer who owns at least a small barnyard, there is a need to prepare fresh food, which young animals and adults are more willing to eat.
That's what they exist for grinders for creating fine-grained feed.
Using the unit in agriculture
On all major rural farms There are choppers for straw and twigs to prepare feed mixtures for other animals. Often such units are very powerful and are designed to handle large volumes of feed. For small farms where the number of animals is small, the use of such machines will not be justified. There are undoubtedly many companies producing low-power, small-sized grinders, but often their price is too high for the average consumer, and this has led to many people starting to assemble their own herb grinders.
How to make a garden shredder
Homemade grass grinder has many advantages. Its production is noticeably cheaper than buying a factory one, since the necessary spare parts and components can be found at hand. Such a device can be assembled for the preparation of some specific feed. And then we will look at several types of homemade shredders. 
The easiest way: use a drill
The design of a combine using a drill is as close as possible to the design of a conventional one. kitchen blender. You will need a drill with a power of at least 620 W, preferably a metal bucket (for grass) and a shaft with a knife. The basis of the design of such a chopper is a rod, the length of which is from 30 to 40 cm, and the diameter – from 10 to 12 mm, at the end of the rod there should be a thread of about 40 mm for attaching the blade (knife) between several nuts. A knife can be made from an old one hacksaw blade, sharpening can be either single-sided or double-sided, or you can purchase a knife for a motor scythe.
Did you know? You can build a structure to fix the bucket - this will facilitate the grinding procedure.
From a vacuum cleaner
The operation of such a mechanism resembles the principle of operation food processor. Its advantage is high productivity and stationarity. It is also envisaged that the ground product will come out of the hole located below into a pre-positioned bucket. 
For this device you will need a vacuum cleaner, or rather its body: the most suitable would be the old Soviet Typhoon vacuum cleaner, but in the absence of one, you can adapt another one. You also need an electric motor of 180 W or more: it can be removed from an old washing machine. The blades, as in the previous case, can be made from unnecessary hacksaw blade. A threaded sleeve for attaching knives with nuts must be cut on a machine; its length is 40 mm.
It is necessary in advance to cut a hole in the tub, which we made from the body of the vacuum cleaner, for the cube-shaped platform on which it will stand. The motor is attached to the tub from below, and then the blades are secured using 32mm nuts. The hole for the grinding outlet should be 7cm by 7cm in size and located under the knives or at the bottom side.
Important! For greater stability, the tub must be welded to the frame.
From the washing machine
Shredder from washing machine completely identical to the one made from a vacuum cleaner –
the only difference is its size. Here, a trimmed (as convenient for you) washing machine body is used as a container, and the sleeve must be at least 5 cm long. 
Important! To avoid overloading the engine, do not add too much grass.
For the container where the grass will be loaded, in principle, any metal can be suitable cylindrical vessel large volume, even a large saucepan can do. As already mentioned, as a knife you can use ordinary hacksaws for wood, which have become unusable, but, based on reviews from various forums, the most the best option will homemade knives made of canvas band sawmill. And to reduce vibration during operation, you can place two knives crosswise.