corn crib filling / wagon lift

Was helping a crew fill ear corn into a crib at Farmamerica yesterday. First time I'd seen an old wagon lift used. Would that lift be home made? It lifts by hydraulic control. We powered the unit by belt, but it also had a PTO power option.

Couple photos here to show it

Those were plentyfull after the war for unloading wagons as we didnt have hoists under the wagons tons of them were around.

Factory lift I can,t remember but there were two or three different folks building them back then.

I shovelled the ear corn out of the wagon for years into the elevator hopper until we finally put hoists under the wagons so we could raise the box.

Looks the same as my Stanhoist, made in Fort Dodge Iowa. I gave mine to Mike A. but he has yet to pick it up.
Nate

That brings back memories from my childhood

We had a home built with a starter motor off of a ford to drive it. It was 300% better than a shovel. Jim

We used a Handyman farm jack mounted on an angle iron A frame that stradled the wagon tounge. Didn't raise as high as I would have liked, but was a big help.

That hoist could very well be a Stanhoist. We had one when I was a kid. Dad had a long rod coming back from the raise-lower lever so it laid on top of the elevator at the back of the wagon. He could easily raise and lower the wagon from back there.

The one dangerous thing about them was when a few ears of corn fell behind the rear wagon wheels when the wagon was up, preventing the wheels from rolling back when the hoist went back down. If that happened the front wagon wheels would roll off the front of the hoist and hit the back of the tractor when the hoist still had a few inches to go down. That happened to dad while he was holding the tongue waiting to put the pin back in the drawbar. The wagon hit the back tractor tire before he was squished but there wasn't much room between him and the front of the wagon when it stopped. Next fall we had hoists on all of the wagons and the speed jack-hoist was just used as a speed jack.

We had the 35 A on the flat belt and the belt was super loose so it'd throw off if the spout plugged. Me being a young kid and wanting things to go faster, I tightened up the flat belt once so I could really fill the elevator and unload faster without the belt throwing. The corn in the crib came up to the spout and plugged it. By the time I got to the tractor to pull the clutch the underside of the elevator was full all the way down. The only Way to unplug it was to climb up the elevator and reach around under there to pull the ears back out. Dad came in from the field with the picker wondering why I hadn't come back out with the empty wagon and saw me finishing unplugging the elevator, and then he saw the flat belt with no sag in it. I didn't do that again! Oh, the memories! Jim

John Deere made those too. Our neighbor bought a new one.

If I remember correctly, many had a tumble rod that ran between the lift and the elevator so that one tractor could power both without moving the tractor.

I thought you use the hoist to also run the tumbling rod to run the dump and just use 1 tractor.

The hoist Ron shows also had the tumbling rod with it, but it was easier to just belt it up to the small tractor. I was also out there. Hauling that ear corn brought back lots of memories for me also.

brings back some memories my grand dad had one of these elevators to fill his corn crib, i havent thought about that in years ,thanks for the pics

We never used a hoist, but used the false end gates same as for silage and then on to gravity boxes.