[AT] Grain Augers--Long

Sat Dec 31 20:01:21 PST 2011

We had kerosene burners for a few years until we lost a barn in a fire. 
Then daddy switched all of our barns to Gas-tobac.  Gas burners.   I really 
liked them.  You could stack all of the covers in a pile in the corner, pull 
the actual burners up off the orifice and all you had in the way was a piece 
of 3/4" pipe running over the ground.  It made hanging up and cleaning up 
the barn afterwards really easy.   I still have some of those burners.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: john hall
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 5:36 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers--Long

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
Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers

> 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
>>
>>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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