[AT] Grain Augers

Charlie Hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sat Dec 31 05:54:42 PST 2011


John, I haven't checked lately but at one time used bulk barns were selling for a small fortune.  No one makes them any longer except for an occasional limited production run.  Long wasn't an all together bad out fit.  They tried pretty hard but had problems with tractors, combines and such.  I'm sure John and Al know but most of the rest probably don't realize that they were just a small outfit out of Tarboro, NC.

----- Original Message -----
From: "john hall" <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 8:24:26 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers

Al, I am surprise you haven't mentioned bulk barns. They sold quite a few up 
this way in the early '70's. We had a farmer/dealer about 3 miles from here. 
He sold quite a few of those barns in this area. He sold some tractors as 
well, don't know how many though. I imagine all those barns have worn out by 
now. We put in new burners in ours about '87. I think there are a few not 
far from me that were retro-fitted with the mandated improved heat 
exchanger, but that guy has since given up tobacco farming.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers


> That Long was a nightmare.  They sold a lot of bins, and grain equipment 
> but a lot of it wasn't very good.  Starting at the ground, where you would 
> dump into the auger, you had about a 7' section, which ran up to a big 
> "box" about 10" wide and 1' deep.  Out of this came the rest of the auger. 
> THat meant you had the gearbox run by the tractor PTO, which drove the 
> upper (long) section of the auger, plus two sets of sprockets, two chains, 
> and a drive shaft to run the bottom section.  In general even now it seems 
> like most grain equipment is "just barely enough" in terms of design and 
> construction.  Dad has a bin and unloader now that is about 4-5 years old, 
> and to tell the truth, it is not great.....something has gone wrong with 
> the gate on the center well so now it is wide open and I can't close it. 
> So you have to turn the auger on and off every few seconds so I don't 
> overflow the little portable auger that carries the corn from the unloader 
> head to the grinder mixer.  It'll!
>  be summer (hottest time of the year!) before we will get enough corn out 
> so we can access the well and see what is wrong.  I guess the engineers 
> that design grain equipment are the ones that graduated at the bottom of 
> their class.....
>
>
> Al
> 

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