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GRB54

12-22-2007 19:46:41




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bought a 24 foot skeleton type hay elevator the other day at an auction- square tubing frame, yellow paint- where the shafts mount for the electric motor and chain drive it uses nylon bushings that are worn out- they fit in almost like a bearing- anyone have any idea what brand of elevator this might be and where I might be able to get replacement bushings?




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JMS/.MN

12-23-2007 10:03:49




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 Re: hay elevator in reply to GRB54, 12-22-2007 19:46:41  
Sounds like the Snowco brand I used to have- Snow Mfg. Co. Didn't know you could get metal so thin and still have two sides to it. Very flimsy. I simply made new bearing brackets and shafts, put some decent bearings in it. Nice to have a wire feed when working on paper thin 'frame'.



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johns48jdb

12-23-2007 05:29:18




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 Re: hay elevator in reply to GRB54, 12-22-2007 19:46:41  
can you get a bearing put in there to replace the bushing. some bearings come with a two piece clamp that holds them in place so you can exchange the bearings real ease like on round hay balers. i think you'd have less friction with bearings. it should be a simple matter to find them and just weld one of the holders in place and bolt the other one to it. just be sure to get everything lined up real good. it might pay you to build some type of cover for the drive end of this piece so that the motor and drive parts are always protected from the weather, if your going to have to leave it out side. i had a real neat litle outfit that i made to hold and escalator in place. it was a square "u" shaped rig that was wide enough to back a trailer load of hay through. it was put together in pieces with a three legged stand at the bottom to hold uprights in and then had a beam big enough to support the weight of hay and the escalator across the top. the chicken foot stands were only about 3 foot high and the uprights slid down inside of them. the cross member slid down on the uprights to make it simple to put together and haul around. i suspened a couple of chains from the cross member to hold the escalator up and as the trailer was empted down we'ed back the trailer into the escalator. i set the height of the escalator up where it was comfortable to reach and set a bale on. trick is to have enough room to back most of the traier in through the rig before it hits the barn. i had a 20 foot escalator and a 24 foot trailer so it worked well. making the upright as wide as you can to make backing into it ease.

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TomH in PA

12-23-2007 09:05:37




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 Re: hay elevator in reply to johns48jdb, 12-23-2007 05:29:18  
I'm trying to picture what you had to hold the escalator. This worked with a flat wagon, right? Can't see how it could be made to work with a kicker wagon.



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johns48jdb

12-23-2007 09:34:33




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 Re: hay elevator in reply to TomH in PA, 12-23-2007 09:05:37  
hi tom, it was made to unload flat bed trailers and trucks. i just put one end of it in the loft and the other end was suspended on chains at a certain hight. you back up to the escalator and started feeding it from the back and worked toward the front. saved walking 24 foot carrying a bale of hay. i use to put up 1000 bales everyday and you make as many short cuts as you can to handle that much hay. of course, a promise of a case at the end of the day for 1000 put in the barn always helped. this was 25 years ago. i cut for the public and it was easier to have trailers to load onto rather than stop the baler and hitch and un hitch wagons. sometimes the hay had to be hauled 20 or 25 miles too. making the span fairly wide helped with drivers who we're real good. i also used 1 ton trucks to haul with and if the barn was real close we'd just use them. i had a rack built over the cab of the trucks tha could hold an addition 20 or 25 bales and rather than back into the barn you just drove straight into the barn and the rack was usually just below the level of the loft and made unloading real ease. never had to have a real good driver to do it this way. sorry don't have any pictures of this rig i had made. any questions you can em me direct and we'll talk by phone if that will help. have a good christmas. got to go to outlaws house to eat. food is good at least. can't say much for the company though.

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IaGary

12-22-2007 20:14:27




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 Re: hay elevator in reply to GRB54, 12-22-2007 19:46:41  
Any bearing shop or a machine/welding shop can get the bearings for you.

They might be brass bushings but they will work.

Gary



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