Combines Portable augers

[Ilnewholland]

I seen this at the NFMS. Pit Express. If you need a drive over pit this would be great. I have a GSI, with the swing a way hopper and it seems to work good. Ilnh

 

[Ed_Boysun]

Hi Aaron, I use a Farm King (buhler) 13X70 swing hopper. Bear in mind that augers of that size are HEAVY!! and also take a decent sized tractor of 100 HP++. The augers mostly stay attached to the tractor, and as such it's kind of silly and expensive to run a drive-line that will transmit that kind of power all the way to the top. PTO shaft attached directly to the bottom is the best I think. Westfield also makes a decent 13" auger but I liked the lift mech. on the FK better so I went that way. I also mounted two powered wheels on the swing hopper and have a remote control that lets me swing the hopper from my tractor cab, while pulling the trailer up to the auger to dump. Today's hi-capacity combines require either a bigger auger or more trucks in order to keep the grain away from them. I've posted a couple pics of my harvesting operation on my Web-site, if you're interested. Ed in Montana

 

[r72]

Friends of my dads have a 16 inch by 90 foot auger it moves 400 bushels_min and you need at least a 175 hp tractor on it.Colin

 

[D_Mayes]

Went to a bottom drive a couple years ago seems to have a lot less vibration and thus runs smoother.The only drawback is it is very heavy to pick up to hitch to tractor.May try to put a jack on it.Realy like not having to worry about a chain at the top and all those drive bearings.

 

[unit_3]

This is not going to help you but, I built a spout on the end of an auger for unloading grain bins. It mounts around the tubing and is controlled electricly at the grain bin along side of the pullout auger and sweep auger controls. I have got 750,000 bushels of corn through it and I have not had to pull a truck or wagon ahead yet to make a full load. I can even be inside of the bin cleaning up after the sweep auger, walk over to the door, look out at the load, turn a switch and move my spout to a different part of the truck. Once I park the truck or wagon, I never need to restart it again to move it ahead 2 or 3 feet just to make a new pile in the truck. I never worry about the grain falling onto roll tarp bows or box braces, because I can move the spout just an inch or two past them. I have a patent on this idea and it has been shown to every auger company that you can think of and they all say nice try kid or we are just to busy to take on any new projects right know. This is my story. Any auger will move grain from its inlet(A) and screw it upward to the discharge(B). From there it drops straight down to the floor of the truck(C). Only my dad's 25 year old 60' x 10" Wesco can take grain from A-B and my spout places the grain from C-Z(Z being a full load). Ask the auger companies if their 10",12",13",or 14" augers can fill a Kinze 1050 grain cart which is 20'(240") long from end to end without pulling the cart ahead. Best of all, this idea came to me while in church on Sunday morning. Sorry for putting this all in, but it has been 7 years of knocking on doors with this idea and still I can not get them to take this on.

 

[thud]

How much capacity do you needIJ a 14" auger is going to move a massive amount of grain. Anything beyond a 10" 30ft auger ( for loading trucks) I would lean towards a bottom drive swing auger. We run a 10inchx71ft Buehler Farm King and are more then happy with it.

 

[RamRod]

Have had 13" Westfields and Farm Kings with swing hoppers, both are good. Westfield is a little less money, but Farm King is beefier so would recommend that if it fits your budget.

 

[Pilgrim]

Saw something similar to your idea already except it wasn't electric. Think it was made in Saskatchewan Canada. Forget the name.