[AT] Grain Augers

[Al Jones]

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
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers
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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
>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>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>
>>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
>>>
>>
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