Drill filling ideas.

[Rob Holmes]

Saw these at LAMMA, https://www.fledbag.com/en/fledbag-funnel-box.html

Chuffing expensive though

 

[Chae1]

Saw these at LAMMA, https://www.fledbag.com/en/fledbag-funnel-box.html

Chuffing expensive though

That's what I was thinking. Looks like they must import them. As you say expensive.

 

[Daniel]

What about standard IBC tanks and a (possibly modified) potato box rotator?

You need some quick way of filling them at the yard, but cheap enough.

 

[Gil582]

How about these ;

https://www.vmacsilos.ie/products/hoppers-tote-bin

They have a lid like Farmer Roy's but shipping shouldn't cost as much

It looks like they do 1.6 or 2.4 cube versions

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Thats impractical

So is putting 300kg of fert through the drill
Jacky bins or an auger bin is the ticket even so

 

[Gil582]

Condon also do something similar;

1 Tonne Meal Bin | Condon Engineering

Legs Are Adjustable Lid opens Fully in two Parts Completely Sealed 4x5 ft

condonengineering.ie

and RobLew do a 1.5 ton one, fairly tall for your job maybe ?

ROBLEW - Lewis & Robinson Enginering Limited

Lewis & Robinson Enginering Limited

www.roblew.co.uk

 

[KB6930]

There's a lad up your way is a engineer on the rigs I can't remember his name he's friends with Jamie Mac at cullerlie he made up a tidy looking outfit a few years ago with twin augers for filling a grain and fert pronto

 

[Chae1]

There's a lad up your way is a engineer on the rigs I can't remember his name he's friends with Jamie Mac at cullerlie he made up a tidy looking outfit a few years ago with twin augers for filling a grain and fert pronto

Maybe James shepherd. Could have been for his uncle. Think he sold it last year so couldn't have been a great success

We are only crofters. Only drilling away from farm ten days a year. Could use auger bucket as suggested above at home. Splitting a trailer and fitting auger etc quite a big investment for that period of time.

Could also use bins to fill creep feeders at away land we rent grass on. Save bouncing about countryside with 2t grain buckets of creep.

I don't think the farmers in US are stupid they've been using bins for years. Perhaps we need to encourage seed companies to start supplying seed in these hoppers.

I know many auger out of trucks into drills also.

 

[KB6930]

Maybe James shepherd. Could have been for his uncle. Think he sold it last year so couldn't have been a great success

We are only crofters. Only drilling away from farm ten days a year. Splitting a trailer and fitting auger etc quite a big investment for that period of time.

Could also use bins to fill creep feeders at away land we rent grass on. Save bouncing about countryside with 2t grain buckets of creep

Aye that was him I knew it was James.

I think it would be slow ish personally I think an old high lift trailer split down the middle and just a shoot on either side would work if your a split hopper or are you front and rear ?

 

[Chae1]

Aye that was him I knew it was James.

I think it would be slow ish personally I think an old high lift trailer split down the middle and just a shoot on either side would work if your a split hopper or are you front and rear ?

Split front hopper. All on front.

What do you use?

 

[Richard Smyth]

Trailer auger be fine if grain only. Often putting on over 300kg/ha fertiliser too. Don't want lots of trailers at field.

Just fill a flat trailer at moment. Haul it to field and sorted for day. I like the bin idea. Fill these with auger bucket. Wouldn't even have to take them off trailer.

Would save bags taking up room in shed. Safer and could completely fill drill hopper.

split the trailer like I said and put that auger on it. Spot on and 15 ton give or take in the field at any time.

I moved the tipper body onto a skel trailer this year and carry liquid fert in the tank and shuttles at the front. Don’t even need a tractor on trailer to tip it as use seeder tractor hydraulics.

 

[KB6930]

Split front hopper. All on front.

What do you use?

Forklift and bags.
We're grain only and a rear hopper.
Far enough south in the land of milk and honey we don't need starter fert I just spin half onto the ploughing for spring barley

 

[Chae1]

Should add previously used grain bins. All of the barley came down a pipe. So was quite straight forward to fill bags off pipe.

It's all stored bulk this year. So be different for filling bags.

 

[chickens and wheat]

I made a hopper from scrap steel, two plywood slides on bottom, one large, one small, hooks underneath to hold and fill bags if required.
It was originally for emptying feed bins so had to be low, hence the 2 slides as not much room for a cone.
It has a lift off greedy board so holds more when not used under feed bin

Slides pull towards forklift so you can reach by standing on front axle





Simple to make, quite squat with wide tines spacing so very stable.

 

[glasshouse]

I have heard of a farmer who noses his combine trunk unto the heap, cleans it untothe tank and drives to the field to fill drill

 

[Highland Mule]

Should add previously used grain bins. All of the barley came down a pipe. So was quite straight forward to fill bags off pipe.

It's all stored bulk this year. So be different for filling bags.

Stick with the bags and get something like this?

Bagging Buckets

www.brianscottengineering.co.uk

 

[Clive]

I might sell this if the price was right as have a plan to build a new version

8t split hopper (2 products or varieties) lockable 5000L liquid tank, 2 x Pallet or IBC rear storage locker, LED work and road lighting, professional paint / VERY high quality fabrication, twin auger with pipes to plug into drill tractor to give a single tractor 1 man operation - Built into new chassis and high speed air-braked commercial axles

 

[Robt]

Had this in Oz, grain and fert! Beast of a thing

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I’m sure that I read a thread started by @Romney_Rob where he was having an old Australian Cole drill filler trailer done up and fitted with a Rekord auger.
Can’t find it now.
Probably more Western drill filler trailers get sold to outdoor pig farmers for feed hopper filling than to arable farmers for their intended purpose. I have one, as well as a very nice Merrick Loggin 12t grain trailer with a Rekord auger.

 

[Flat 10]

What about standard IBC tanks and a (possibly modified) potato box rotator?

You need some quick way of filling them at the yard, but cheap enough.

Or just modify a potato box with a woven polythene liner? Sounds easier somehow?