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Do they make anything like this?

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Animal

11-05-2007 16:10:32




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Their are quite a few times that I need to haul 3 to 5 hundred bushel of seed or product a fair distance, up until now I have hired it done and paid the extra lug for short loads. With the cost of trucking and fuel now days I really can not afford it. I have a power stroke Ford, and a real heavy flatbed trailer,I was wondering if they make a gravity flow box that I can put on my flat bed and use it to transport my small loads? Or if you know of something else that will work. thanks guys,,,,

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T.J.-N.J.

11-07-2007 16:51:30




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to Animal, 11-05-2007 16:10:32  
Pierce sales sells a kit to make a dump truck out of your stock bed pickup we have one on an old Dodge 3/4 ton 4X4, my dad was a fabricator for a living so it was easy for him but if you have a welder and a chop saw it shouldn't be to hard to do.T.J.



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335LP

11-07-2007 09:40:33




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to Animal, 11-05-2007 16:10:32  
There are several companies out there making seed trailer or seed tenders with augers or belt conveyors or even air pneumatic unloading built on gravity flow box. We built some smaller ones for feed or seed from old combine bins mounted on a shop made frame and axle. Do a online search for companies making the commercial ones. Unverferth? makes one. Some on a orange box can't remember name now. Some seed drill companies making them now too. I've been looking at one from conveyall.net

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hayray

11-06-2007 03:42:20




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to Animal, 11-05-2007 16:10:32  
Hey Animal,

it is real easy to mount a gravity box for either temporary or permenant use on a flatbed trailer. I am in the process of doing that now. Right now I have a 120 bushel box mounted on a fertilizer running gear and I go easily up to 40 miles to get a load of shell corn, empty I easily can flow with traffic on smooth roads. The other thing I have for hauling a lot of hay with is that a couple years ago I bought a brand new EZ-Trail 8 ton gear and flat rack and I can go as fast as you want with that. I have no problem going 30 miles one way with that to deliver round bales. No plates necessary, that could easily have a box put on that gear also.

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Don-Wi

11-05-2007 23:33:53




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to Animal, 11-05-2007 16:10:32  
How far do you have to go? A good running gear with automotive style tierods would pull straight as an arrow down the highway.

Donovan from Wisconsin



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JMS/.MN

11-05-2007 19:24:53




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to Animal, 11-05-2007 16:10:32  
You could make a tender like fertilizer plants use, or considering the size you want- it may already be available. They are skid-mounted, slant bottom units with gas engines to run the hydraulic auger unloading system. You could consider using an old combine grain tank for a starter, power it with hydraulics, either from your truck or with an engine/pump/control unit. Put a couple back to back and you could haul two different varieties.

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Pooh Bear

11-05-2007 18:39:34




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to Animal, 11-05-2007 16:10:32  
In the Northern Tool catalog there is a sand/salt spreader

That just sets in the back of a pickup truck.

item# 103895-1801 holds 2.1 cubic yards

page 547 of the 2007 fall/winter catalog

Pooh Bear



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johns48jdb

11-05-2007 18:16:48




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to Animal, 11-05-2007 16:10:32  
you might find a gravity flow wagon that has been in a wreck and the running gear is shot and the box is still ok. you could always make your own box to fit the trailer you have and the need you have. putting it in a shed when your not using it offers you the opportunity to have some place to use comealongs to lift it off with and also keep it in the dry where it will last longer. seems like i saw a wrecked gravity flow wagon in stuck and troubled here recently.

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phillip d

11-05-2007 16:25:52




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to Animal, 11-05-2007 16:10:32  
I live north of 49,so I was wondering if you could enlighten me alittle please.Approximately how many tons would be in that many bushel's.If I know the answer to that,maybe I may think of somthing.pd



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RossIL

11-05-2007 18:39:06




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to phillip d, 11-05-2007 16:25:52  
56lbs a bushel (approx) so about 8.5 (300 bushel) to 14 tons (500) bushel. These are my rough guessitmates Someone else can step if they're wrong.
Sounds like quite a load on the high end for a light duty truck (3/4 or 1 ton)
Ross



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paul

11-06-2007 06:07:20




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to RossIL, 11-05-2007 18:39:06  
Yea, you typically want to stop at 200 - 250 bu loads on a pickup.

The only problem with a gravity box on a flatbed is the openning typically is right where the tires/fender are, and difficult to work that out. You don't want to raise the box 3 feet high, or the load gets way too tippy. Some are center dump, if you don't mind a hole in the trailer floor - but then you can't fit an auger under a low trailer, so you need to be dumping into a drive over pit.

--->Paul

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Animal

11-06-2007 16:18:03




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to paul, 11-06-2007 06:07:20  
Thanks for the input guys, what I have going on here is soy beans, some are food grade, these go to the middle of the state, about two hundred miles one way, the others are feed grade, which will go to Omaha, three hundred miles one way. Have any of you had any experience with the plastic totes?



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TomA

11-10-2007 09:09:04




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 Re: Do they make anything like this? in reply to Animal, 11-06-2007 16:18:03  
The last time I had grain to sell I went down to the mill and they gave me forklift bins, maybe now they have been replaced by plastic totes. I think most of those places are set up to dump those bins.



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