Well, I failed in my poor attempt to talk myself into a farm hunt........... sigh.
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Well, I failed in my poor attempt to talk myself into a farm hunt........... sigh.
Cap, how do you fill all those sacks with corn, from those 55 gal. barrels???
Bro, I got a great time-saver idea for you, in filling all those sacks by-hand !!!!!....I been doing it for years....gotta go for now, but I'll tell you about it, later.
Cap, I wore out my back, filling those sacks with a bucket....I bought a small wore-out gravity-flow-type grain wagon for a few bucks at a farm equip. auction....it holds about 100 bushels, and I keep my corn in it, instead of all those barrels....less cost, too, buying in bulk....I just keep it parked under a shed, out of the weather.
It has a small door on one side, with a lip attached, which allows the grain to flow out slowly in a small stream....I just set the sack on the ground, under the stream of grain, hold it there until it's full, close the door, tie off the sack, and move on to the next sack.
I stack the filled sacks in my front end bucket, and just drive the tractor around to my feeders....sometimes, if I feel lazy, I just run the front bucket under the trailer door, and let the stream of grain flow directly into the front end bucket....then, I just drive to the feeders, and use a scoop shovel to fill them, directly from the front bucket.
This one is almost like mine, except mine is an M&W....also, the lip on mine is not as wide, which is actually better for fitting inside the sack opening, for filling....this one is $450 on ebay, which is about what I paid for mine.
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I've looked at those Eddie and we actually had one at one time that had a auger (no sliding door) and that was really not workable. My problem with it was our shed and barn are open on both ends and squirrels stayed in it and corn tends to draw moisture in that situation.
I really don't mind bagging up the corn and because I use it in NC and SC I really need it where I can travel with it. If I ever close off the barn or shed I would consider another one. Thanks, Captain
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Agreed, about the auger-type....pain in the azz....agreed, about the squirrels....however, Sandy loves chasing them around the trailer. ;)
At the rate Captain is going he's going to need a silo.
BKB
BBP, silos are for silage, not corn.
Well, whattaya call one for corn, a cornage?
BKB
A grain bin.
If still on the cob, then it's a corn crib.
How original. There used to be a couple of 'silos', which were tall cylindrical brick things, over in Arkansas by a little town called Ozark. They were painted like Budweiser cans and later on when I was an adult I found out it was because the farmer raised corn and sold it to A. Busch. I thought those were corn silos.
But to also be technically correct, there can be missles in silos too.
BKB
Ha! I've seen a ton of silos with corn in 'em. Ya' just gots ta' stay ahead of mold and stuff.
I'm a city-slicker ... we store our corn in cans! ;)
I must be a mountain man as I store my corn in a jar...
Them's squeezin's! ;)
Speaking of.....its looking like its gonna rain all weekend here. I need to make it by to get me a jug between now and 5:00 tomorrow.
BKB
A: Doggoned nice deer Cap'n!!!!
2: I HOPE you are using a respirator or at LEAST a dust mask when you are working with that corn. Lots of dust there ya know.
Niner so obviously has an issue of keeping on topic.
BKB
Who?
What silo? Is that like milo?
I love corn on the cob. With real butter.
I can't afford all the corn that I need to shoot deer that I can't see.
No weekend rain here........