2016-09-23 |
McAree Engineering Launches New Silos
At this year’s National Ploughing Championships the McAree team were displaying their full range of meal silos and tote bins.
These included a 16 Ton Split Bin complete with a Diet feeder auger along with three other animal feed silos (a ten tonne, an eight tonne and a six tonne size).
Safely storing animal feed is an ongoing concern for farmers in the Bord Bia Quality Assurance scheme or other QA programmes. They have to keep feed safe, secure and free from contaminants. It also makes good economic sense to protect valuable animal feed from vermin and spoilage.
However animal feed now contains a more complex range of additives so in certain conditions these reacts with the coating of traditional galvanised metal. This can significantly reduce the life span of an expensive animal feed silo.
So McAree are changing the material they use to manufacture V-Mac Silos. From September 2016, all their animal feed silos will be manufactured from MagiZinc an innovative Chromium free alternative to traditional galvanised material.
MagiZinc has been extensively tested by their metal supplier Tata Steel. MagiZinc delivers outstanding corrosion protection compared to conventional galvanised zinc coating. This very high protection performance has also been proven in rigorous, independent tests at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
McAree are delighted to be the first silo manufacturer in Ireland or Britain to use this new material. Also on the stand was a new slurry agitator with twin propellers designed by Leonard Dancy, a dairy farmer from Kilkinkere in Co. Cavan. This is tractor mounted, manufactured from heavy duty steel and does a faster and better job handling coarse and heavy slurry.