Corn picker elevator

Doug - Iowa · Feb 23, 2017

Thinking about repurposing a corn picker elevator into a wood elevator for lifting split wood to the dump truck or the woodpile. Used to be one in every grove but all gone to scrap now. A IH #24 looks perfect for what I want but others might work. Anyone done this or have suggestions?

wvfarmboy · Feb 23, 2017

smoker farmhand and newholland there all the same would all work

JMS/.MN · Feb 23, 2017

There were some mfrgs of narrow elevators, maybe Kelly or Kelly Ryan? I used one for an overhead silage conveyor...too narrow for square bales, but I"ve seen them used for that by cocking the bales on edge. Not hard to make a small conveyor out of 10-12 inch boards, single flat or pintle chain, and a jackshaft to get proper speed. google Loyal Roth mfg in WI for ideas.

paul · Feb 23, 2017

I was thinking the same, lot of short line silage conveyors that would be perfect for this job.

Feeder cattle setups used these for moving feed as well. Lot of stuff rusting out behind barns.

Paul

Farmallb · Feb 23, 2017

My uncle Walt gave my dad a KR elevator when he bought a JD wider and longer elevator. Ive got the KR now. We put up thousands of bales with it. It wasn't good with a JD as the PTO kept jerking, but I bought my uncles 41 M Farmall in 65 and it had more power than the A or B, and ran steadier, and we had way less problems with it.

JMS/.MN · Feb 23, 2017

In the 50s, Dad made a wooden conveyor about 12 feet long, using 10 inch? boards- fit into the space where he knocked out a silo stave so the conveyor could be set into the 4 foot deep pit of the silo. That was miserable to pitch out of! Uncle saw it and brought some pulleys/shafts so Dad could make one for him, to load manure out of a hog barn. For a firewood conveyor, the motor and jackshaft should be underslung.

Butch(OH) · Feb 24, 2017

Sure it will work, lots of people are using old grain elevators for firewood. It is best to slow them down and to have a v belt in the drive so as to be used for a slip clutch. Takes very little to drive one and a loose belt will save you from having to fix the chain when the occasional sliver gets caught under the chain. I have an old David Bradley crib unloader elevator that I use. It is on an undercarriage and lifts and lowers. Pretty handy behind the splitter.

rrlund · Feb 24, 2017

IH 1PR had a wide double chain elevator.

Doug-Iowa · Feb 24, 2017

Thanks all. Thinking more about the whole process, we take the 154 with the loader to the woodlot and to pull the splitter. Once we set up the 154 moves the brush and pulls the logs to the splitter area to cut up and split. Maybe I'll make the elevator run off my '47 Cub (odd PTO anyway) and it can pull it. The Cub has a basket on one side we put saws and gas tanks in so it might as well power the elevator, plus one less little motor around here to keep running. If I ever get this put together I'll post some pictures.

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