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Hercules' Arm
2017-06-27 21:31:00| National Hog Farmer
Photo: New Product Tour judge Joseph Darrington takes a spin on the Hercules’ Arm under the guidance of Gary Desmarais, Ro-Main national and international business development. Hog producers never want to have to remove mortalities from their barns, but it is inevitable that losses will occur. Removal of mortalities can be difficult, and even dangerous, for barn employees, especially if the dead is a market-weight hog or a multi-parity sow. Ro-Main’s redesigned Hercules’ Arm, with a new low maintenance dual motor providing variable speed allows a single producer or barn hand to easily remove even the largest sows effortlessly and safely from the barn. Aaron Lower, New Product Tour veterinarian, put this product in logistical context. “On a sow farm if you have to remove a dead sow it will take two people a half hour, so this would cut it down to one person and doing it more quickly. And then you have the safety and strain factor … then if you have to move four dead sows in a day.”
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