[AT] Grain Augers

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sun Jan 1 05:29:13 PST 2012 

Well you could be right about that, I don't know, but I do have a little 
experience working in a chicken house and I'd hands down take tobacco over 
that!

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Al Jones
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:22 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers

Sounds much better than hogs to me!

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 31, 2011 11:10 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers
>
>Trust me Al,  all you really missed are the memories and I can sum them up
>for you.  Wet and sticky,  wet and cold early in the morning,  hot and
>sticky by noon.  Eating breakfast at 5 am with sand in your eyes, ears and
>hair from taking out a barn of dried tobacco at 4 am.  Oh did I forget to
>mention the rash on your skin from tobacco juice from the wet leaves.
>
>Charlie
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Al Jones
>Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 6:13 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers
>
>Charlie, that would be awesome to see.  Folks that know me know I am a
>little odd.  Part of that I attribute to the fact that I grew up in eastern
>NC and never worked the first day in tobacco.  Ever.  I missed out on a lot
>of this first-hand and I feel like I REALLY missed out.  I was stuck 
>working
>on our pasture hog farm, hating about 90% of it.   My family got out of
>tobacco before I was born.  Yes tobacco is hard, nay grueling work, but at
>the end of the day you can look back and see what you've done.
>
>Al
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>>Sent: Dec 31, 2011 4:21 PM
>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Subject: Re: [AT] Grain Augers
>>
>>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
>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>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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