[AT] Grain Augers--Long

Sat Dec 31 15:19:12 PST 2011

John,

I think grandaddy's barn may have used Vann burners too.  The barn still stood 'till hurricane fran in '96 but the equipment and so forth was long gone--he built a floor inside and stored shelled corn for his hogs in it.

The last stick barn, that I know of, used in our neighborhood was in about '90 or '91. They had a "ferris wheel" harvester you pulled behind a tractor.  Was that a Davis?

Al

-----Original Message-----
>From: john hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com>
>Sent: Dec 31, 2011 5:36 PM
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>Al, I think Vann was the name on the burners in our barns. I believe 7 of 
>the 8 barns we had were run on kerosene with 4 burners inside. The only one 
>left is next to my house and it was last used about 1999. It had sat for 
>about 20 years unused before we resurrected it for a tenant to use. We 
>actually had it up and running in a couple of hours. The receipts for the 
>last loads of kerosene my grandmother bought were still in the control box.
>
>John Hall
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>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
>>>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
>>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>>Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers
>>>
>>>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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