nc ks | AGB1640 - 11/28/2023 10:55
At work we put one of these in, but made it permanent feeding a leg so we didn't have to build such a deep "pit" to put a regular drag or u-trough in. Basically did away with the ramps, wheels and hitch.
It's a little noisier than a regular drag, and the dump area is small. If your traps are long it will make a mess when emptying the trailer unless you pull up a little with the truck. It feeds from the top chain, so it will pull a little grain around the bottom chain when it dumps into the auger or leg. It doesn't clean out completely, might have a 5 gallon bucket of grain in it when finished. Can try and get some pictures when I get back to work.
We have both the batco belt and the agi hutch chain conveyor. The batco has more capacity, but you have to lower the flaps every time and shut it off to position another truck. Not deal killers and would have been a little better if it was electric instead of hyd. The hutch is much noisier and also less capacity but was electric. You can leave it running to position another semi, but we rarely do as it was easy to punch the button and it is nice to shut the loud thing off. We tried tighter and looser chain tension and it still clangs. You are dumping through the top chain which is going the other direction so it splatters a little grain the wrong direction. But it works fairly well.
We ended up making a bigger drive over structure for our batco so we could leave it run and not have to mess with it each time. This also allowed us to position easier because if a hopper spilled a little either way, it was on flat deck plate that could easily be swept into the drive over at the end of the day.
On both drive overs, we set the wheels so they are contacting the ground so all we have to do to move is pin a pallet fork in the hitch and pick up the one end to move it. On the hutch we moved the wheels opposite of the above pic so they contact the ground sooner and you barely have to pick up the hitch end and it is all off the ground. The batco was already built that way.
Edited by kb ag 11/28/2023 17:14
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Batco pit stop
