Tonight I was out looking at a flair box wagon shell for sale when I stumbled across a letz burr mill sitting in the weeds. What was unique to me about this mill is that it had a power feed table with fodder cutter that was hooked into the into the back side of the feeder housing. IF anyone has any information on it I would appriciate it. Thanks Zach
Zach looking through my 1924 dealers general catalog from John Deere it shows a model 180 Letz-Dixie roughage mill with a cutter head and recutter and an automatic feed table. Here is a pic. of it.
I am glad to see that someone knows what a REAL Letz looks like, instead of the little belt powered burr mills you see being powered by a single cylinder gas engine.
My Dad bought a 50X, I have a 50X with the vertical discharge with the horizontal auger, as well as a skid mounted 50X.
I had a 225X, but it went with my cornpickers and 2 cylinder tractors this spring, when I realized that I would never get around to restoring them.
yeh charlie it looked alot like the one you have posted in the pic there. We used to have one like nick had posted but have not had it around in a few years
Mine works, but i need a good auger for mine, Ii found this one in a corn crib where it sat for 40 years. They never cleaned it out when they got done with it and the auger tube rotted away.
I have a manual for a 244 Letz Dixie mill and the mill is in the barn. It looks pretty much like cdjdg's picture below. His is the 180, about which I know little. Ours has the feeding chain and forage cutter (four helical knives running at 850RPM against two stationary knives and a re-cutter screen), which feeds the chopped feed into the feed auger and into the burrs. The 244 has 12 inch burr plates. Options available in the mid-1920s included a bagger, chain elevator, belt-powered knife sharpener, and the forage cutter could be separated from the burr unit and a blower could be attached for filling a silo. I wish I could find a screen for ours, as it was destroyed in the 1970s by a misplaced siding tool that was fed in.
