Moving a Little Grain

Colin King

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My chicken feeding operation in action... I took this photo while getting ready to meet the mill's truck for a feed delivery on Tuesday. I hope to get that gravity box cleaned up next year.

Colin, MN
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Our chicken feeding operation included two 5 gallon buckets from the grainery to the hen house! A number of trips twice a day!!
Good Picture!!
 
8N still looks good Colin!
Don't let that wagon push you down a hill!
We use a similar gravity box to store feed for calves.
We have a little wooden box with a tin floor we set under the door.
Set two 5 gallon buckets in the little box and open the door to fill them.
Then carry the buckets in to feed and empty the box in the feeder too.
 

How on earth do you manage to stop that thing? My 8N brakes are weak at the best. I adjust them to where they are nice and firm but still hard to stop going down a hill (deer trails in the woods).
 
I have the distinct advantage of not having to move it on hills. The heaviest load I've pulled with the gravity box was 4000lbs + wagon & box with no trouble. I would not want to have that much weight behind me on a hill, that is for sure!

Colin, MN
 
Thanks, Royse! For not being shedded, I'm pretty please with the Van Sickle paint. It's fading but has held up pretty well.

No hills to worry about, thankfully. If you look closely, you can see a wooden box below the gravity box shoot. It's big enough to hold a bucket and about 150lbs of feed. I use a grain shovel to fill my buckets and then off to the chickens.

Colin
 
Something that works for me

Took a couple pieces of 1X6 or 1X8, I forget which, angled the end cuts to match the angle of the chute to the bed, bolted them to a couple pieces of angle iron and bolted that to the chute, tapering it down from the door to 6" or so opening at the end of the chute...a feed funnel. Hopefully your chute is tall enough a 5 gal bucket will fit underneath.

While I still put my buckets in a washtub while filling, I don't have to clean up near as much feed.

Course you gotta unbolt them if you need to raise the chute.

Fred
 
A little trick I use is clear enamel if the paint is still good but faded from being out in the sun to long. It's really amazing how much better a tractor will look if it has a little shine! A couple of spray cans will spruce up a tractor quite well.
 

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