Moving shelled corn with an elevator?

I would like to transfer shelled corn from gravity wagons to a truck. I don"t have an auger, but do have a New Holland elevator. Has never been used on anything but hay. Can I use it to transfer shelled corn? It is electric, but a pto kit is available if 1hp motor is not enough. Used augers are not very common around here. It would be all my corn this fall, maybe 10k bushels or so.
Josh

An elevator will move corn alright if you keep it fairly flat. Which it would be loading a truck. I used one for years out of several bins that only had 6 inch unload augers. The elevator would keep up with the six inch auger.

Just keep the chain tight and do not over load the paddles. Some corn will be rolling over the top to the next paddle but you do not want a lot of it doing it. IF you have a lose chain or over load it the chain can ride up on the corn and then break. Then you have a mess.

As for the 1 hp motor working that maybe a little slow but I would try it. I had a 1 1/2 motor on mine and it worked fine.

The wider the elevator the more corn it will move. I had a JD 350 elevator that would move shelled corn very well. I had a narrower NH elevator and it did not move it very well. The shape of the paddles make a difference.

Make sure any screen sections are covered on your elevator. Most elevators where made for ear corn. They wanted the shelled corn separated out. So there would be a section with a screen/slots that would let the shelled corn fall out. If yours has this screen/slots and you do not have the correct cover I have just bolted a piece of plywood over that section.

As long as your talking a hay/grain elevator it should work. When we still had the cows we filled our grainery with an elevator, never owned an auger. PTO drive would be better.

Used one for years to load oats into a grain truck. It had a one HP electric motoor and I used it in the field by powering it with my electric generator. I have used an auger to load corn onto trucks and I believe the elavator was as fast or faster. You will probably have more trouble getting the corn to flo out of the gravity wagon then anything else.

Oats works great, shelled corn and wheat work, beans are difficult but possible. Ear corn of course its the only game in town.

Flatter the better, and don't expect record flow of grain. The steeper you make it the more it will cascade down like water in a rapids, and less gets delivered out the top. Fairly low just into a truck it should work well for you.

Paul

I have a 36 ft long Kewanee that I use frequently to off-load corn and beans from wagons to trailers. It is PTO drive. JD Seller is right on with his instructions......keep the angle as low as possible and don"t overload it to the point where the paddles are lifting off the floor of the trough. With a 430 Case(about 35 hp) running at 540 PTO speed, it will load wet corn on a truck every bit as fast as a 10" auger. Of course, the spacing and depth of your paddles will greatly determine your results.