bin unload auger w/hyd motor?

Need to have a 5"x11' that runs off hydaulics from tractor. No electric near bin. I want to run main auger off pto and bin unload off the tractor hydraulics. Local utility auger dealer cant seem to find me one. Can any one give me advice on making my own?

Northern Tool & Equipment should be able to provide what you need - hydraulic or electric.

I had a friend that wanted to use a small auger for a drill fill. Northern Tool provided him a 24volt DC motor that would run off the 24 volt system of his D4 Cat.

dicks right northern would be your choise for the hydraulic motor, you may need to do a little math and fab to get it working the auger,it should be fairly easy to figure out though

Just use an auger for filling a drill and stick it in there it will unload the bin. just fasten the motor to the end of the pipe in the floor. might even be able to just slide the cap over the tube in the floor depending on the diameter of the bin might have to change the flighting length.

Surplus Center is also a good source for hydraulic parts. And there's another place- Baum, I think? that has lots of calculation help in their catalog.

I have used my gravity wagon hydraulic orbit motor fertilizer auger for applications like this. Doesn't always spin the fastest but gets the job done. Like you I have a bin away from good electricity so I can only run a small fan and a 9' sweep. Not enough electrical power to run a big electric motor for a 6" - 12 foot angle auger into a sump in the concrete. I put a power shaft on it to run slowly with tractor PTO. Had to change the auger to opposite direction screw to correspond with tractor PTO direction. Works great, dumps into another auger outside to fill trucks/wagons.

Find a old Lorenz feed mill. The unloading auger was hyd. orbit motor.

We have one as a swing auger to feed the main one, make sure that the OC/CC matches your tractor's hydraulics or you will cook the fluid.

I'm a real dummy when it comes to setting up hydraulics. So don't look at this as a blueprint, but a foggy idea....

I bought 2 such augers at farm sales. One is a bit of a project; the other 6 inch, 12 foot one works well for what you suggest, but it is a tad slow with my tactor.

The key I guess is to match the orbit motor to the oil supply your tractor offers.

You can build a hyd drive from parts from Surplus Center. They are pretty good at helping you size things, but they will need to know what you are starting with. Oil flow, speed you want auger to turn, how much energy the auger will need, etc. Best to set up with an orbit motor that runs too fast, and then put in a bypass valve, you open it a bit to allow slowing the auger down to the speed you want - then you can use it with different tractors and adjust to each tractor somewhat. If your tractor is real low flow, then there is only so much that can be adjusted tho.

You'd need a bracket to hold the orbit motor.

The orbit motor.

The speed adjuster valve.

4 hoses, 2 very short, 2 long.

Plumb the tractor to the speed valve, the valve has an output to the orbit motor and a bypass output back to the tractor, and the orbit motor will also have an output back to the tractor - you can combine the outputs back to the tractor.

--->Paul

When I put up my first drying bin I had a 7"x35' transport auger that just reached the eaves. I got a 15' section out of a junk 7" auger and used it as a roof auger. I just made a coupler and put a hyd. motor right on the lower end of it, just below a hopper I scrounged. Fortunately the PTO on the transport auger was down near the wheels, so I ran both augers with one tractor. We used the same motor on the jackshaft on a New Idea elevator for ear corn and bales. The trick is sizing the motor correctly. If I remember correctly, the "business" end of the motor was 3/8" thick. I might be able to find it and get numbers off it if that would help.

Dave if your unload tube comes out fairly close to ground you can put a u-joint on end of flighting and couple it to end of your truck auger. I have been unloading 4 bins that way every year for forty years. I made a plywood box at the transition point to keep the grain from making a mess.

Dave, google wheatheart hydraulic bin sweep or wheatheart mfg. If you don't want new or in no hurry, I have an older wheatheart hyd sweep I don't use anymore. I have 6 bins and a couple wood grainaries I used to unload with this setup. Used to power it with the tractor hydraulics. I'm in SD. What part of Mn you from? I was just thinking the other day about getting rid of a bunch of stuff I don't use anymore. My sweep comes with different length sections of flighting to make it as long or short as needed. No back shield like the new ones but still moved a lot of grain without shoveling it.

I have made two for different bins I used to use. I just used the hydraulic motor that drives the reel on a JD 200 grain platform. I just had a coupler made that fits the hydraulic motor on one side and the auger shaft on the other. Then a bracket to hold the motor from turning.

Sounds like you need an old orbit drive drill fill auger. I have 2, 5-inch by 11-ft. drill fills with hyd motors that run off the truck hoist, used to run one off the tractor hydraulics years ago. They're cheap on auctions up here but might be rare in other areas.

I converted a gas-engine driven 4 inch x 11 ft auger to orbit drive, used the canvas drive orbit motor off a Versatile 20' dsa swather.