[AT] Grain Augers

[john hall]

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" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
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
>