Soybean transfer

crsutton81 · Dec 20, 2022

We spent most of yesterday and part of today getting the soybeans transferred to the next bin to finish drying them. We had sort of a Rube Goldberg setup going if you would trying to get them moved. This was the 1st time my son's Farmall SA had really ran for a lengthy period of time since he got it. Up until now it has been his cultivator tractor. Everything was going flawlessly until the driveline on the auger on the SA snapped into. I jokingly told him we had hopped it up too much when we did the service on it. We got a new shaft made and restarted again this morning to finish. It sure was mighty chilly up on that ladder this morning at daybreak repairing it. Once everything decided to stay intact, it was peaceful and satisfying to hear the 2 Farmalls humming and the 420 putting away.

flying belgian · Dec 20, 2022

I've done that a few times but instead of that long down spout I used a gravity wagon.

GermantownGreen · Dec 20, 2022

Are you just running dry day air through these beans, no heat?
Have your butter beans dried up in good fashion?

Good luck there, GG Wes

coonie minnie · Dec 21, 2022

I've done similar. I called it my poor man's grain leg.

Jim in NC · Dec 21, 2022

I suggest keeping detailed pics and perhaps a sketch of how you have things arranged in case you need to duplicate it in the future.

crsutton81 · Dec 21, 2022

Yeah it's just the fan. We don't have a dryer or heat of any kind. Some of these beans were butterbeans for sure as the couple of days that dad ran the combine the moisture checked in the 17s the next morning while unloading. I quickly figured out why the combine engine was barking a bit. Just come back from delivering the 1st load and it checked 11.6 so maybe all of this will be for a positive cause, as the moisture dockage was going to be 70 cent per whole percentage point, per bushel over dry. I thought we'd could dry em a whole lot cheaper than that.

crsutton81 · Dec 21, 2022

It's always a headscrather moment trying to set this stuff up at times and it varies depending on if we need to be hauling out while moving something elsewhere.

crsutton81 · Dec 21, 2022

We have left a dumped 2 ton grain truck under it before when I needed to for it to work.

used red MN · Dec 21, 2022

In the second picture one tractor must be running the horizontal auger under the bin floor, correct? I see a power pole by the bin sight but there must not be a setup for the electric motor.

GermantownGreen · Dec 21, 2022

Sounds just like us last year, field edges and one weed patch made some north of 18.
But ours was a small batch, we ran it through the allis 60 combine, and then moved them twice, and then blended some good beans with them, the straight ones were 10.3 moisture,
So it worked out for the best. Good luck there with the weather.
Semi cloudy in West Central Missouri 12.30 pm
GG Wes

crsutton81 · Dec 21, 2022

Yes, there is a pto driven gearbox that turns the horizontal auger under the floor and the bin sweep. We have several bins setup like this as when the bins were built years ago, a neighbor that ran a small elevator always did the hauling and provided all of the equipment to get the grain loaded onto his truck. He had a Farmall 140 with a belt pulley he'd power these bins with. With this situation and everyone being very financially conservative, there was never a need to put an electric motor on it nor install enough electrical service to accommodate it. Fast forward several decades later the neighbor retired and passed away, so therefore we had to come up with plan B. This particular gearbox came from grandaddy's Mc Cormick 1-PR corn snapper.

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