Want to make a hay chopper

with 2 hp abut all you get done is feed the machine for hours on end

We did it for 20 years powered by a McCormik Deering 1020 pto. There is an impeller fan on the output of the grinder, the ground (hay, corn, whatever) goes up in a pipe (think galvanized stovepipe) and then goes into a big funnel aparatus called a "cyclone" the dust comes out of the top, and the ground goods come out the bottom. We didn't have enough barn room to store all the hay we needed for our cattle, so we ground hay with a little ear corn, and mineral. Our cattle stayed fat during the winter, on a whole lot less hay than a stright diet of regular hay.

If one has a particulaly dense leaf of hay, lets say red clover or bean hay, the hamer miller whil catch it with a big "whomp" and almost stall the tractor.

Now I don't know what you could do with 2 hp, and I think it would be kind of dangerous to try and make something unless one was an engineer. Anthing that can tear up stringy fibrous hay is going to be hard on limbs too; and if it comes apart, I don't want to be any place even remotely close.

I have jury-rigged a lot of stuff in my time... But when it comes to something that is motor driven, that chops, cuts or grinds, I would rather leave construction to the pros.

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Moving to that big black hole in the night satellite photo. (also the hole in cell phone coverage )

On the above U Tube, where they showed a doz other U Tubes on the subject, I saw the guy who had rigged up a lawn mower over a tub like I had stated in my first posting.

Lawn mower isn't going to chop dry hay very well.... at least not in any reasonable amount of time. I can send 300 lbs of dry alfalfa squares into the mixer/grinder just as fast as I can grab a flake and throw it in.

I just experimented with clover mowed and dried on a tarp
in the sun, then chopped finer in a blender making the
consistency I wanted for game bird feed. Now I just need
this on a bigger scale. The blades of a food processor work.
So, something larger will do the job.

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The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.

Again, Look at the guy with the lawn mower vid.