Super H Mike
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This is an old Lindsey flare box wagon full of cob corn I picked today, how many bushels would you guess are in it ?
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Bruce from Can.
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All of them ???
Ultradog MN
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- Twin Cities
How do you unload that wagon?
Does it gave a conveyor in the bottom?
Does it dump?
Just wondering.
Does it gave a conveyor in the bottom?
Does it dump?
Just wondering.
Super H Mike
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Yes it dumps with a hydralic lift. I have a couple short videos of filling and emptying it if I could figure out how to upload them I would!
Bob Harvey
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.0000025 Gillion.
fixerupper
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Centash is right, 125 bushels of ear corn. Probably a short 150 bushels if it was full of shelled corn.
Tom in TN
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- Southern Middle Tennessee
Google says that there are 2.5 cubic feet in a bushel of ear corn. You could easily compute the number of cubic feet in the wagon, and then divide it by 2.5.
Or, so they say.
Tom in TN
Or, so they say.
Tom in TN
Rich'sToys
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Just curious--what kind of picker were you using? Looks like maybe a 1 or 2 PR?
flying belgian
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I believe they used to call them 60 bushel boxes but your load is heaped a little so maybe 65.
flying belgian
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By the way when will we find out who the winner is and what does he get for prize?
Super H Mike
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Yes its a 1PR,I really enjoy using it
and it was a nice day today for
picking!
and it was a nice day today for
picking!
Super H Mike
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I dont know the answer myself actually. The reason I am asking is it was not my corn I was picking. A nearby neighbor let me take it off his field and I want to be fair about settling up with him on it. Judging by the wide range of guesses I will probably have to do some math ! Not sure how to calculate for the flare yet...
randy hall
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been picking corn for almost fifty years now. your wagon will hold half the bushels of ear corn that it would hold with shelled corn. if it's a 120 bushel wagon it will hold 60 bushels of ear corn
Ear corn is bulky and takes 70 lb to make a bushel. So when using a gravity wagon, for example, that would hold 100 bushel of shelled corn, you will only be able to get maybe 60 bu of ear corn on it. I would guess that load at no less than 50 bu but no more than 70. Not very precise, I know.
We used to rough estimate 0.8 bushels per cubic foot for shelled corn and 0.4 bushels per cubic foot for ear corn.
Five feet wide, times five feet high, less about 3 square feet of cross section for the wheel flares = 22 square feet times ten feet long = 220 cubic feet times 0.4 bushels per cubic feet = my guess is 88 bushels of corn.
Five feet wide, times five feet high, less about 3 square feet of cross section for the wheel flares = 22 square feet times ten feet long = 220 cubic feet times 0.4 bushels per cubic feet = my guess is 88 bushels of corn.
With these measurements I could figure it out. All inside measurements width at bottom, height of sides on bottom, straight up height of flair, this is easy to get just take height of bottom section of side boards and top section of side boards and subtract them from total sideboard height, height ov top section of side board and length of bed. The 2.5 cu bu per cu ft is for settled corn so the heaped would be about what it would make settled. Measuring wagon will take 5 times longer than the math to do the figuring. I am guessing at 38" boulster width so on a steel box bed about 37.75" wide inside and top about 5' with top section of sideboard at 2.5'. How close am I? But no way it would be over a hundred bushels more in the 60-70 bushel range.
Super H Mike
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I know that would be accurate. Couple problems with it though, nearest elevator is 14 miles away and with the crappy tires and crazy distracted drivers I am not going to chance it. Plus I went by there yesterday and the line waiting to unload was substantial. I would hate to impose on the "real" farmers with this, and its already in the crib anyway !
Super H Mike
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These are the measurements. The overall depth is 42 inches, the upper unflared portion is 24 inch high, the flare is 9in, and the bottom is also 9 inch high. The width of the bottom is 38 inch , and above the flare is 55inch. The overall length is 10 feet.
Eldon (WA)
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We had one like that when I was a kid, no hoist, tho. We only used it in a pinch...what a pain to unload. Later we used a tractor and F10 farmhand to lift the whole wagon front to make it easier.
I come up with 91.67 cubic feet for the top portion, 29.06 for the middle flared part, and 23.75 cubic feet for the bottom unflared portion.
This adds up to 144.48 cubic feet.
Multiplying that by .4 gets you in the neighborhood of 57.8 bushels.
From there, you can deduct for moisture content and husks.
Not knowing the moisture content of your ear corn, but assuming 18-20%, I would estimate between 52 and 55 bushels of dry (14.5%) shelled corn are on your trailer.
Lon
This adds up to 144.48 cubic feet.
Multiplying that by .4 gets you in the neighborhood of 57.8 bushels.
From there, you can deduct for moisture content and husks.
Not knowing the moisture content of your ear corn, but assuming 18-20%, I would estimate between 52 and 55 bushels of dry (14.5%) shelled corn are on your trailer.
Lon
Super H Mike
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Thank you ! The math trips me up, but that sounds about right to me. The moisture was right at 16% for this field.
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