Elevator Question

Anyone have any experience using gravity boxes with a crib bucket elevator like the one pictured? Just wondering how you'd modify the drag line to work with a side unloading gravity box rather than the old rear dump barge wagons. Thanks.

Maybe shorten the hopper or build a shorter hopper if you want to keep the original one intact.

When we used gravity boxes for ear corn in the 1970s we pulled the wagons to the end of the hopper and unloaded into the end of the hopper.

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Sorry - wrong thread.

I'd look into removing the drag intact for preservation's sake, cause they don't make them anymore, and make a chute/hopper for the gravity box to unload directly into the bucket elevator.

(quoted from post at 09:47:47 06/03/22) I'd look into removing the drag intact for preservation's sake, cause they don't make them anymore, and make a chute/hopper for the gravity box to unload directly into the bucket elevator.

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I second that.

So.... does this run ear corn up to the top, or does it run shelled grain up to bins in the top?

Those deals were not popular in my neighborhood, everyone used stand alone flight elevators to move ear corn up, and there were not many grain type bins up top like other regions have.

I would safely take the drag away, and build a small chute/bin that gravity feeds the vertical elevator. You wont have much more room than that anyhow! Basically build a tiny gravity box for the feed into the leg.

The only issue might be feeding the leg, they like to be fed evenly and especially if it moves ear corn, that tend to come out quite clumpy from a gravity wagon. Could take some work with a corn hook keeping that steady! Would work easy for shelled grain tho.

Paul

The crib on the farm I grew up on had a Kewanee brand inside elevator, the horizontal conveyor was recessed into the concrete floor. Same elevator carried ear corn into the cupola and chutes directed ear corn into the sides of the crib, or into the overhead bins above the driveway. Those bins could have held shell corn, soy beans, but we raised 40 acres of oats every year for straw and to start fresh seeding of alfalfa for hog pasture and 20 acres of hay for the cattle. The crib also had a platform scale in the south half of the driveway, platform was over 20 ft long by 7-8 ft wide. As our wagons got bigger our trust of that scale diminished, I backed our wagons in from the north end of the crib.
Bob and Phillis Johnson who wrote The CORN PICKER Book have also written The Corn Crib Book, pretty safe to say somebody spent about an hour in our crib every day year round, from grinding ear corn for the feeder cattle to unloading supplements to add to the grinder so they mixed in with the feed.
One thing we learned the hard way, the '51 Farmall M with 4M&W pistons was the grinding tractor, the Super H could pinch hit in an emergency but the Kneodler burr mill was absolutely everything it wanted to pull

just why cant you use the horizontal drag we never had a problem