Got my elevator home today

tomstractorsandtoys

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I posted on here 2 months ago about pulling an elevator over 300 miles with cage roller bearings in the wheels. I had replies of it would be fine to they would not pull it 10 miles. I had extra cage bearings and tires but while working on my square baler the other day decided to do something different. I had a welding shop cut about 4 inches off my axles and add a flat plate with gussets so that I could bolt stub axles off a 24t Deere baler on them. I had two extra stub axles that I replaced the bearings in and took one off my baler for a spare. Local tire shop sold me two new trailer tires for less money than implement tires. We went to Mankato MN yesterday and changed the axles out.The elevator has always been shedded so removal was easy. Installed my axles,remover the corn drag and strapped it to the main part of the elevator(was afraid with it sticking strait up something might break if it bounced while towing). Spent the night and hooked up at 8:15 this morning. Added a safety chain and headed for home. We traveled strait south to RT 9 in Iowa and followed that to 76 which put us on 18 and across the river to WI and home. Arrived home at 3:15 and drove 287 miles. It pulled nice at about 50 mph. Saw some beautiful countryside and had great weather. Tom
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I assume you got it for ear corn? The old way of picking corn was my favorite thing. I made these as a memory.
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It is a 350. The seller said it never sat out unless they were using it. They had a deere 2640 and loader that looked like a 2500 hour tractor that had 14,000 hours on it. Tom
 
Yes we are going to fill the corn crib this year. My old 350 elevator rusted apart so the last few years we have not done any ear corn. I paid $50 for that 15 years ago. We fatten 25-30 beef calves each year. I have a Deere 237 mounted corn picker that we are going to put on a 2510 to pick with. I am also looking for a Deere 71 corn sheller. MM made a better sheller but we like to stay with green. Tom
 
What side of Mankato? The NE Iowa area where you traveled is shown as a scenic route on the Iowa road map. Looks like you did well.
 
One year we ran short on grain augers and used the exact same elevator (with a PTO) to move shelled corn - it could move grain almost as fast as an 8" auger. Otherwise it only moved square hay bales. Never saw it move ear corn - ever.
 
good idea on the axles... and glad you made it home.

I think I mentioned this already, but you need a #6 sheller. My father in law has 3 of them. BIg machines.
 
Near Lake Crystal.

I’m about 30 miles NW of there. Others on here are in the area.

Glad you got the rig home, and looks like you did well on the modifications.

You can find cage bearings yet, I struck out when looking for one years ago.

Paul
 
That was a good idea. Now I'm not clear on is did you have an extra elevator axle and modified that and then had to swap the complete axle out ? or do those axles have removable stub shafts and you just had to modify some stub shafts ?
 
Nice job. good idea. why didn't deere think of that??

keep this one inside too. those trailer tires typically don't hold up well in the sunlight and dry rot real fast and go to pot at the wrong time.
 
Axle has a removable stub shaft. I had a junk elevator and modified mine and switched them at the farm. I was concerned about removal of his but they came out easy. I took cut off wheels and a grinder in case they did not and I would have needed to split the pipe on his. I also took some muffler clamps to reclamp it if I would have had to cut it. Tom
 
That's a very nice looking elevator! You did well on it I think. We need some pictures of it moving corn when you start using it.
 

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