Getting prefect circle for grain bin

Anonymous-0 · Aug 30, 2009

I can always find a couple of experts here with ideas that saves me time. I put up a 7 ring 18' grain bin. The angle at the bottom is put on and it sets flat on the concrete foundation. It seems that when using the bin jacks to center the bin it pulls one way more than the other. The foundation is 19 feet in diameter, so there should be 6" extra all of the way around. MY QUESTION IS HOW DO YOU PUSH AND PULL THE BIN SIDES TO EXACTLY CENTER IT? ANY IDEAS? Thank you.

farmer101IL · Aug 30, 2009

We had a grainbin business when i was a kid. Usually we put the bolts wet in the concrete.
If not drill them in the correct spot an squeeze it in.
And i think the bins we put up if it was a 7 ring it was a 21 footer , 8 ring 24ft . We sold a few different brands and they were all the same.
do you have clips that hold the angle to the concrete? They are usually adjustable also.

Farmer

Anonymous-0 · Aug 30, 2009

I have put up a couple other grain bins. Both had the anchors you put in the wet concrete and a threaded bolt to a bracket on the bin wall. This bin has 12 little 5" or 6" channel irons that hold down on the angle iron bolts to the bottom ring. I will put concrete anchors down. My problem is getting the bin pushed here and there to get it exactly round and centered on the foundation. I suppose I can pull it around into shape with a come along anchored to a tractor from the outside. I also thought of dropping a bolt into the center pipe I used to screed the concrete. Then lay a handy man jack flat on the floor against the bolt and push against a 2 by 4 thereby pushing the wall outward. Any ideas will help. Thanks

John Harmon · Aug 31, 2009

I've put up many new bins and the process there is to anchor the base ring before building the rest of the bin wall,but i think you are trying to set a fully erected government type bin,right? come alongs will do the job pretty good. Start at one spot and work your way around the Bin ,one anchor at a time Keep the bins weight off the Foundation so you can bolt it down tempoarally till it is et fully.

smallbale · Aug 31, 2009

moved several bins and put up new ones. I always just went off the same center stake that was used to screed the cement that I had poured. just rotate it around like you did the cement screed. You can get really close.

Osterbur · Aug 31, 2009

Just take a heavy hammer and some lumber and
from the inside knock the wall where you want it.
Quick and easy.

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