Handling corn

JayinNY · Dec 10, 2020

I was looking at YouTube and this video came up, anyway i dont know how to post a direct link, and i got sucked into watching this, excavator with a bucket for filling corn into trucks, i think they said they moved 1 million bushels in 60 hours, i took these pics during the video, it was neat!

SVcummins · Dec 10, 2020

That’s quite the operation

SVcummins · Dec 11, 2020

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Loading corn

JayinNY · Dec 11, 2020

Speed loader corn bucket its called if you want to try to find it.

I don’t understand YouTube, im looking for something, and other things pop up.

JayinNY · Dec 11, 2020

Thanks! You posted it faster than i could respond! Neat I thought.

SVcummins · Dec 11, 2020

I seen one on a loader but never the excavator

paul · Dec 11, 2020

The bobcat operator has to be on his toes, he needs to do the sweeping but stay out of the way of that big bucket. Needs to stay focused on the flow of the operation and not get in the wrong place.

Paul

quefan · Dec 11, 2020

Hoe operator also needs to stay on the ball or he mangles the hydraulic gates on the ground or trailer sides.

showcrop · Dec 11, 2020

(quoted from post at 03:50:28 12/11/20) The bobcat operator has to be on his toes, he needs to do the sweeping but stay out of the way of that big bucket. Needs to stay focused on the flow of the operation and not get in the wrong place.

Paul

Paul, that is correct, but for equipment operators it is just another day. Building construction sites are usually congested with not only equipment but also workers walking around.

Part Time Pete · Dec 11, 2020

Had to move a hill on one of my projects last summer. The contractor had a D-6 pushing to the excavator - could do about 1500 yards a day - not sure what that would equal in bushels

tractorkrum · Dec 11, 2020

Interesting video. Years ago I read an article about damage to corn and soybeans during handling. They talked about auger damage and other ways of damaging the corn and soybeans. With the skid steer moving the corn, the truck backing in etc, wouldn't you see significant amount of damage or is this no concern?

Bob Bancroft · Dec 11, 2020

Yes, but it starts back at harvest. I went to a grain harvesting/handling/storage program once. A speaker pointed out that the often adjusted too high combine header cross auger would pinch ears and cause kernel damage! Another formerly overlooked trouble spot is dropping grain on a hard surface from a long way up. Beans would be more vulnerable to that. I imagine whatever damage is being done to the corn in the video would average out with conventional handling involving augers, elevators, downspouts, etc.

coonie minnie · Dec 11, 2020

Aside from what is driven on, I'd think the skid steer and excavator would likely have less damage than a traditional auger. Its being handled in big quantities in the buckets vs what each auger flight would move.

coonie minnie · Dec 11, 2020

1500 cubic yards = 40,500 cu ft.

40,500 cu ft / 1.25 cu ft per bushel = 32,400 bu.

All bets are off if we are talking a Canadian bu

old-9 · Dec 11, 2020

Years ago one of my classmates mounted a loader bucket backwards on his JD excavator to load corn and also snow. It worked great. joe

Bob Bancroft · Dec 11, 2020

I would tend to agree with that.

fixerupper · Dec 11, 2020

I have never seen it done that way around here but maybe I just haven't noticed. Most elevators around here used to have an auger or conveyor set up on the back of a tractor where the tractor backed up into the corn pile and the conveyor picked it up via a cross auger. One fella made a self propelled outfit that incorporated a cross auger pickup on the front and conveyor going out the side. He had a hydrostat on the wheel drive so he could go into the corn pile evenly. It would load a truck in about three minutes. The truck driver had to be on his toes so be able to drive forward RIGHT NOW when the conveyor operator waved to him. I hauled away from him for awhile when I was driving a truck. If I was day dreaming for a second or two he would be waving his arms and hollering at me to get moving. LOL

paul · Dec 11, 2020

That is true of course!

They were working on a street project here this summer, they were digging the street down 11 feet to put in new sewer pipe, as well as water pipe, and new street of
course. Digging around gas pipe, that stayed not now.

Fella was in the hole could only see the top of his helmet. Was a huge excavator digging and he was locating I would imagine.

Another huge excavator was on the other side also digging same hole, he was the balognia in the big bucket sandwich, man if he tripped or either operator twitched, he
had no possible escape route. Both buckets were easily within 5 feet of him as they dug.

Paul

Wheat47 · Dec 11, 2020

Never seen them use and excavator, but I have seen them using wheel loaders.
A feed lot I worked at used a wheel loader to fill a stationary sillage box which
elevated into a scale bin to make the rations.
Used the same loader to bring barley from the pile in the feed mill to the grain pit
to be elevated the hopper over the grinder.

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