Dismantling grain bins

[ploughman1963]

I have acquired a couple of 200 t grain bins - outdoor, circular, made of corrugated tin, with roofs. I will try to get a photo for clarity.

I was going to get a gang together with rattle guns and a cage on a telehandler to dismantle from top down. However, I was told that you can get a frame to fit inside that allows the loader to lift the bin and disassemble from the bottom up- lower ing the bin as you progress. Far safer as working off floor I would think. Does anyone know if this is right? Anyone got something to hire? Is there an easier/safer/better way?

Thanks

 

[Phil P]

@grainboy may know.

 

[ploughman1963]

Bugger, meant to tag him! Thank you

 

[spanners and hammers]

yes most people dangle a old wheel and tyre in the top hatch from teleporter and lift like that ,,,, depending what make some have some lugs on top hatch you can lift from

 

[ploughman1963]

Now you are talking !

 

[renewablejohn]

Was on TV yesterday some American off grid program where they where building a round house and using a new grain bin roof built on the ground. They showed how it was lifted old school with telehandler and tyre. Unfortunately was not built correctly so bent rather than lifted but I am sure if built correctly it would have worked.

 

[goodevans]

i doubt you would get a teleporter to lift high enough for a 200 hundred ton bin because it will either be to tall or wide,have done that method with 70 ton one and loader was on limits,possibly a 12m building site might manage but it is a fair weight on full extension.Mark Tranter ,midwinter agricultural services ,Mortimers cross specialises in that,i have lost his number along with everybody elses but Danagri would have it at Bridgnorth



I have just googled Midwinter Agricultural Services and it comes out at top

 

[nonemouse]

I know when our bin was first built they put roof together at floor level and then used a large jack/ram on a frame and lifted from centre. Lift high enough to get one row of sheets on, then lift again, until full height. Surely dismantling would be just a reverse of process.

Would think @MickMoor would know about this

 

[ploughman1963]

i doubt you would get a teleporter to lift high enough for a 200 hundred ton bin because it will either be to tall or wide,have done that method with 70 ton one and loader was on limits,possibly a 12m building site might manage but it is a fair weight on full extension.Mark Tranter ,midwinter agricultural services ,Mortimers cross specialises in that,i have lost his number along with everybody elses but Danagri would have it at Bridgnorth



I have just googled Midwinter Agricultural Services and it comes out at top

Thanks - I emailed mark at danagri this morning

 

[grainboy]

300 ton bins,
17 m Telehandler 4.4 ton lift,
Bin weighed 3 ton, but take first two rings of before lifting,
2 men, 2 days per Bin,
Or mobile crane

 

[ploughman1963]

Grand! Have access to big telehandler with stabilisers. I may have sizes wrong? 24’ diameter and 5 rings high?

 

[MickMoor]

You know I'm only a phone call away! I can lend you some of the tackle.
Even a local crane hire company we have used. The problem with large telehandlers is that once they have picked the weight up, with the jacks down, they can't move.

 

[MickMoor]

Be careful using just a wheel and tyre, the weight of the bin can push the tyre off the rim!

 

[ploughman1963]

thanks Mick - I think you’re already going to be busy but I’ll give you a call about the kit. The other bins must have been smaller as a neighbor apparently lugged his one across the fields to his yard

 

[MickMoor]

thanks Mick - I think you’re already going to be busy but I’ll give you a call about the kit. The other bins must have been smaller as a neighbor apparently lugged his one across the fields to his yard

Reminds me of the time we moved a small one from farm to farm, on a specially widened trailer on a Sunday morning, many years ago. No overhead wires, so we thought it would be safe. I went on ahead directing the traffic in to the side, the farmer drove the tractor, happily chuffing on his pipe, (it was that long ago!), and in my mirrors I culd see a great commotion, involving Matthew and the crane driver. They were clearing all the branches that had been knocked own off the road!

 

[ploughman1963]

we have had a couple of years of following artics as they leave here to gather up the boughs - been a lot easier and cheaper than doing it with a basket on the telehandler.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Not sure if your bin is too big for this, but it doesn't require dismantling. Used to be fairly common around here to move this way.

 

[grainboy]

Fair point Mick about tyre/rim size, but your lifting steel plate silos,
Also yes to a point you can’t move a bin when Telehandler on jack legs, but why if dismantling, would you want too,
Lastly Ploughman. Remove roof panels before last ring, with some support in the middle, if you don’t the whole roof will fold in on itself,
Yes. This system is probably not totally ideal. But using proper jacking system is time consuming, and costly, out weighing value of second hand bins,
BE SAFE,

 

[ploughman1963]

Update- wishful thinking on my part - apparently 125t bins - 24’ diameter, 6x 0.8m rings (drying floor in bottom) plus height of lid plus height of concrete plinth - total height 7-7.5m

 

[grainboy]

145 ton bins then by my reckoning,