Feed bin sensors
- Thread starter blue boy
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- Location
- Near Colchester
Good question, windows are unreliable and sometimes leak, banging the side of the bin is not always practical or reliable.
I have tried the proximity type, they soon get covered in dust and don't work properly, paddle switches are good but you need an electrical supply and a build up of insect frass behind the paddle makes them not good either.
I have wondered about the pressure sort but worry that meal may not be dense enough to set them off.
So, still banging bins here until some genius comes up with a plan on TFF........
If this is any use to anyone feel free to use it... It's a spreadsheet I use to help me blow the right amount into bins.
If you, say, go to day 25 and want to know how much you'll need to get to day 31 just highlight the right six cells and check the total showing at the botom. Adjust numbers att he top of the table to suit.
If you, say, go to day 25 and want to know how much you'll need to get to day 31 just highlight the right six cells and check the total showing at the botom. Adjust numbers att he top of the table to suit.
- Location
- Northumberland
Rolls Royce solution
Think Collinson do load cells to stand the bin on.
Think Collinson do load cells to stand the bin on.
Silo Load Cells | Collinson
Monitor the quantity of feed delivered, feed usage, batch weighing, inventory management with silo Load Cells from Collinson.
www.collinson.co.uk
- Location
- SG9
Load cells the way forward or know how much you take from how much you have put in can be done with a timer on auger take offs
Thanks for this will be very useful in helping to predict requirements. I B & B pigs need to report stocks levels each week end as well as keeping bins constantly full !If this is any use to anyone feel free to use it... It's a spreadsheet I use to help me blow the right amount into bins.
If you, say, go to day 25 and want to know how much you'll need to get to day 31 just highlight the right six cells and check the total showing at the botom. Adjust numbers att he top of the table to suit.
Fed up of finding long broom handles to bang bins was looking at bin view laser and wireless ones. have same concerns about dust etc making them ineffective though all look and sound great on a website or youtube advert
Cheers looks good system but i better make sure sat down when ask the £££ question
- Location
- Near Colchester
That is what I thought, you could buy a brand new broom handle for each bin, every week for the rest of your life and still be in pocket.
R J
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
I have collinson weigh cells and are great , well worth the money in the long term ,
I think a system for 2x 24 ton bins was 4.5k when we had them put in 4 years ago .
I think a system for 2x 24 ton bins was 4.5k when we had them put in 4 years ago .
- Location
- SG9
Just had a new Collinson bin installed with feed alert weigher best system of the three types I have.
About £450? Seen a few fliers, text to your phone daily?
- Location
- Mid Wales
I’ve got the collinson weigh that you bolt onto the frame of the bin and pressure senses what’s in there. Works out predicted lowering based on current usage and texts me below 30%. Great bit of kit
They had feed alert at the dairy show on collinson stand this year. From memory starts at around £400 for just an alert when the bin is nearly empty but you can upgrade to tell you the actual weight in the bin. I think there are deals on with some feed companies. It works by measuring the stress on the bin when there is a different weight of feed in it. Pretty neat idea.
Will Blackburn
Member
- Location
- Cheshire
Two bins with app based feed alert here, much, much better than guessing with windows.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
My bin has weigh cells on each leg and wires but no control box …. Shame be handy .
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
An older farmer near here has about a dozen feed bins on a chicken unit. Each bin he’s made a small hole on the side at the top of the side wall and runs a thin rope from the ground to the bottom of the bin. He had it measured out so he can lower a weight inside until it touches the feed and he can figure out the feed level.
- Location
- SG9
Giving up with strain gauges on six bins for a year changing as and when can.
- Tags
- dairy stress weigh cells