Same Old Problem

Oh well, guess I'll have to do like I always do and just make it work with what I've got. :>)

Allan

We've got a 36' diameter grain bin on a rented farm we had that problem with with a 60' long auger. With a 60' auger we had to back it up on blocks and then use a piece of steel barn siding for a chute to get the grain to top of the bin. After two years of doing that we bought a 10"x70' auger that easily reaches that bin but it's long enough it can be a pain to move between bin sites.

All of the grain storage bins I have ever used were the 4 compartment type where you had to climb on top to move the built in shoot to the compartment you wanted to load.

SO with this bin pictured..... ..... ..... .
It is a single compartment? Right
Is'int that a hole pictured right where the auger end is?
Why would you need to load in the top center? Or if this lower hole is not for loading through what is it for? People Access?
Why would the lower access hole not work?

I am thinking loading through the center would center the grain and cause wall pressure to be equal on all sides but just wanted to ask because it is not a factor in our bins. One conpartment can be full while the others are empty and still not cause wall damage.

We have an 8" by 51' PTO drive auger (the one that I lost my foot in), a 7" Brandt with a 13 horse Honda and an old galvanized Mayrath with an 11 horse Honda on it. Only hydraulic drive thing would be the drag auger, which works OK, but I prefer the grain vac!

Could you take a moment and present a safety lesson from someone who has had the experience. It would be worthwhile if it even saved/prevented one incident somehwere, sometime. Some will never listen but there will likely be some owner/operators who will. Some guards/screens replaced,some risky tasks changed/eliminated and a few throughts to think about.

Neighbor always used his old H to run the grain auger - nice and efficient, ya know? So he upgrades to a 12" x 75' with the swing-out to go under a semi-trailer. Fires up the H, full throttle and starts augering wheat. Auger gets about 3/4 full and kills the tractor! Had to put his 1086 on it then.

I have a 10 X 70 Feterl, and it makes my 40 HP IH 424 SNORT without being loaded NEARLY full.

A Deere 4020 running it over the course of a few days' harvest uses a noticeable amount of fuel!

BTW Bob,did you get that 261 chev from the guy north of Goodrich ?

One thing I don't miss is cutting oats in July/August.

We had .55" of rain here this morning about 7:30, it cut back on attendance at a fly in at our AirPort.

Hey Sloroll, we had P51D Big Beautiful Doll come over from Atlantic, love the sound of that Merlin Engine!

Rob