Moving corn from one bin to another

I am moving a drying bin with with a burner and stirator to another farm with existing bins. I would like to set the bin I am moving next to an existing bin and move the corn from the drying bin to the larger storage bin. What are my options for moving the corn over?? I would like to keep the bins lined up next to each other. It seems to me the most logical would be a small auger from the drying bin sump auger angled up to the top of the storage bin powered by an electric motor on top. I guess I could use two grain augers - one moving grain to a gravity wagon and another moving it to the storage bin. What are you using or have you seen?? Bin would dry short of 5000 bushel per fill. Thanks.

A small electric driven auger will be SLOW in moving your corn. The incline will take much more power than the drag auger.

What I have seen that is much simpler is to get an auger with a swing hopper. An 8 inch one sounds like a "fit" for your operation. IF you set your bins right you can easily move the corn from one bin to another by using the swing hopper under the drying bin unload auger. This way you can use the same auger to load your drying bin. You would not need any extra electric service or motors on top of bins to fight with.

Eight inch swing hopper augers can be found reasonably priced. $2000-3000 will get you a real good one. Try to get one that is all mechanical driven. The older ones with the swing hopper hydraulically driven limits your tractor choices.

Questions; What size is the discharge auger in the drying bin you are moving? If it's smaller than 8", would you consider upgrading it as part of the move? You mention moving grain into one storage bin. But you also mention bins, plural. Would you want to transfer into another different bin someday? What do you have for augers now? What do you mean by "small" auger? As JD says, I wouldn't go smaller than 8". Have you seen "roof" augers? That's a permanently mounted auger running the length of the roof, from the bottom to the top, which you can dump into with another auger. That requires an electric motor up top.



If you have the room, time, and strength to be moving transport augers about, then, again, as JD suggests, that's probably the simplest option. If you want to keep bins in a line, I suppose some kind of auger installation across the tops would work. The problem with any "installation" is that it better be planned out and done right the first time, and it's expensive- cranes/labor/etc.

I started with a 7"x35' transport dumping into a roof auger on a 30' bin. Then for years, I had two 8"x50' transports, one for putting grain in, and one for taking it out. I tired of hauling augers around. My bins are in sort of a semi-circle, and I'm very limited for room. With a few years of good crops, and the ethanol inflated corn prices, I was able to put in an elevator leg. Now I can move grain in, out, from any bin to any bin, between vehicles, etc., without hauling around transport augers. Don't limit yourself from future expansion.

When setting bins one trick I've seen is running your auger from where you want to start from and run it up to as high as you will need and hang a rope off the top of the auger to the ground that will give you the spot to put the bin.

Look at yanking the stirrators and putting in a Shivers Circu-Lator system. Dad has a NECO that is nearly identical. Has a vertical auger in it that can recirculate to the top or use a roof auger to transfer to another bin. Dad's has been trouble free for the 15 or so years it's been in the bin. Then you just made a continuous flow dryer when you had a batch dryer before.
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Have you considered air? In my area a lot of guys are using air, you just have tubes run to where you need the grain.

I work on systems everyday. Air systems work great on continuous flow systems,fairly slow and high horsepower required, on a batch system Personally, the best and easiest to work on would be. Auger to gravity box to auger to bin. It is flexible easily repairable,yes it does require setup and room. If you tie it all together with fixed in place augers that look nice, which all work good for awhile. when it does come to repair everything has to be replaced just right and usually with the need of a boom truck (expensive). I would opt for portable augers. But then again I am old school and cheap.

I work on systems everyday. Air systems work great on continuous flow systems,fairly slow and high horsepower required. On a batch system,JD is correct swing hopper auger or the next best and easiest to work on would be. Auger to gravity box to auger to bin. It is flexible easily repairable,yes it does require setup and room. If you tie it all together with fixed in place augers that look nice, which all work good for awhile. when it does come to repair everything has to be replaced just right and usually with the need of a boom truck (expensive). I would opt for portable augers. But then again I am old school and cheap.

I use 2 augers and a gravity flow wagon most of the time. Other times I just load the truck to haul between bins especially when moving dry corn from farm to farm. I did set up a couple of bins on another farm the way farmerwithmutt says. Then went and bought a longer auger so now I use a 2 augers/gravity flow there too.

I set up a cooling bin between my dryer and storage bin in 2013. We used two electric augers mounted in place. One runs from the cooling bin discharge to the eave of the storage bin. We put a diverter at this point, and we can either run the corn up another roof mounted auger to the top of the storage bin, or discharge to a truck or wagon.

The points below are all valid. Good luck in your decision.