Yesterdays project

Dad got a small jack hammer and I busted up and repoured the corner wheel for the barncleaner that broke out (pulled the studs out of the concrete) about 1 1/2 years ago (dead of winter if you do the math). Dad had it fixed to where it had a bar over the top of it and if you parked a tractor over that, it would work ok for the job. Last year for whatever reason we never got to it. Then snow came and we surely weren't gonna go several days in the winter without it, so it had to wait again.

Finally got some time where we didn't have to do some sort of field work, so I busted it out and repoured it. I made up a better anchor for the corner wheel this time. 2 6" grade 8 bolts welded to a plate of steel 3"x8"x1/2" or so thick, on the spacing needed for the base. Put that in and some wire mesh over the top of that, and those bolts shouldn't ever pull out. Gotta wait a few days for the concrete to set, and then we can put the corner wheel back in and put the chain together again. Then we'll just have to go through the rest of the corners and replace the pins and rebush the wheels before winter comes.



On to fixing the 970 wagon and my 1600's hydraulics.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Lookin real good!
Put up a pic when you have it all back together.

Myron

Looks good Don. Also looks like you had some help there or else you have very small feet

Maybe it's just me, but there aren't too many jobs that are as satisfying as a small concrete job like that.

Now I'm going to go search for any concrete that needs fixing around here...

I"m curious what brand of barn cleaner uses a two bolt mount like that- looks rather weak since it sets in manure at all times, and that is so corrosive. Doesn"t look like a Patz or Berg corner with the two inch pins.

Looks good!! Son in Law's barn cleaner chute gave er up last January, was trying to get another year out of it. We cleaned the barn with a wheel barrow and the skidsteer for a few days and installed a new stainless chute and repaired the reverse curve, at least the weather was nice, in the 40's every day.

How many coners, and revers turns do you have, all loaded?

The neighbor had a band corner on his barn cleaner. We held it in place with a block of wood and a plate of steel on top. Worked like that for many years but it was the first outside corner on the return side. It did pop a couple times that I can remember but not very often.

All told, we've got 2 reverse curves and 4 corner wheels, and about 280 ft. of chain. A few years ago we replaced the slide with an auger and put the drive unit in the barn.

The chain actually goes outside twice and has 4 straight stretches.

donovan from wisconsin

Concrete work in the barn in flip-flops???

I presume a "supervisor" standing there. ha

My sisters barn has about 180 ft of chain in it, but it sat one winter
without cattle and the floor busted up. It then had sheep in it two
years without a cleaner and got behind cleaning out as you can't get
a skidsteer inside. Then the drain tile broke and silt / water from
the yard behind ran into the trench silting it to the top.

I had dreams of getting it running, but I don't think that will
happen.