[AT] Grain Augers

Sat Dec 31 13:38:53 PST 2011

Web search shows that Powell is/was in Bennettsville, SC.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 4:21 PM
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Oh yeah I forgot Powell but I think they are an eastern NC outfit too aren't
they?   I believe there was an attempt to retrofit stick barns but I don't
think it was very successful.   It would great if someone would take an old
tobacco warehouse and as much of the old tobacco equipment as they can find
in it for a museum.    Everything from graded sticks, grading benches and
old 4 wheel tobacco trucks all the way up to bulk barns including a mock up
of a warehouse floor with a video and audio of an auction.   I had the
pleasure of knowing several tobacco auctioneers including two who at one
time held the world champion tobacco auctioneer title.  Another thing for
the museum would be some restored Cadillac and Chrysler Imperial limos like
the buyers used to be chauffeured to the market in.  Of course it would need
a few 2 ton trucks and a variety of restored old cars and  pickups like the
farmers drove to the sale.  All of it parked inside the warehouse just like
back in the day.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Al Jones
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 1:25 PM
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Powell is the only one I can think of off the top of my head.  Seems like in
our neighborhood most barns were either Roanoke or Long.

Wasn't there a burner/flue system you could put in the old stick barns made
by Vann, as well as Silent Flame and probably others?

It is a shame somebody didn't think to save some of that stuff too.....

Al

-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 31, 2011 9:30 AM
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>Al,  If you think about it, most of the bulk barns were manufactured in our
>general area.  Or at least most  of the ones that we are familiar with,
>Long, Roanoke and Taylor.   I don't know,  maybe bulk tobacco barns are a
>regional thing and there were other manufacturers in SC, GA and VA but none
>that I ever saw.  Can you think of any other bulk barn brands?  Bulk-tobac
>comes to mind but I don't know where they were built or if that was a brand
>name of one of the companies I mentioned.
>
>Charlie
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Al Jones
>Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 11:06 PM
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>Totally forgot the bulk barns!  Yes, there were oodles of them too around
>here.  Never really heard anything much bad about them.  Didn't they sell
>them up until fairly recently?  A "BTO" had a yard full of newer barns
>before he quit tobacco and I just about believe they were Long.
>
>Haven't I read somewhere that Silent Flame was purchased by Long?  Long had
>a series of tobacco harvesters, I want to say 70's vintage, that looked a
>lot like the old Silent Flame harvester with the chain-driven front wheel
>and the tiers/loopers working on the "top story."
>
>For me the ultimate for my collection would be an original Silent Flame
>tobacco harvester but I am afraid they have all gone to the big scrapyard
>in
>the sky by now.
>
>Al
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: john hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>>Sent: Dec 30, 2011 8:24 PM
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>>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>
>>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>>Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:34 PM
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>>
>>> 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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