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plowboy
Posted 11/28/2006 00:52 (#66365 - in reply to #66006)
Subject: Re: thoughts on grain load out



Brazilton KS

Our legs are in pieces.  Only thing being fed to them right now is mice.  Heck, parts of them are still 300 miles away. 

 

We load out with a straight 40' auger onto the truck from all but two of our bins, plus two little ones which we don't use much.  Those  currently are being unloaded with a 71' swing away which has to be manuevered and fanagalled to  get into position, involving at least one 'scoot over' maneuver with a loader.   They used to have a fixed 12" unloading auger which went through both walls of a tank on it's way out to the truck, but it wore out and has not been replaced.  The two little ones are unloaded with either the swing away or a 40' drag conveyor.   These jury-rigged setups  will be replaced with an auger into the leg, if the leg ever gets put up.

 

Everything in our grain handling setup is above ground.  The pit is in an artificial hill which was built over it.  The dump pit was outdated before it was finished....it was built to feed an 8" auger feeding 4 12,000 bu bins and two 4500 ones.  By the time it was finally finished and in service, we were combining corn faster then the auger could lift it.  This setup was relegated to soybeans (although they get filled with corn from corn harvest until soybean harvest, so they actually get used twice per year) and corn goes straight in the top of the big bins with swing aways.    The pit is probably going to require some sort of adjustment to get grain high enough to feed the leg.

 

We're pretty well out of the cotton for now, unless John figures out how to get rich at it, then we'll probably get back in.  

Right now, corn is king....beans seem to be making a little progress, but they're gonna have to pick up the pace (or else corn crash) to get very many acres. 

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