Filling drill with a bucket

[D14]

Anybody got any bright idea please. The bucket is about 2 ft wider than the drill hopper. We’ve not way of bagging it up before anybody suggests it.

 

[solo]

That’s a lot of buckets you’ve got?

Wrap one end with silage wrap to reduce the width. Ratchet strap a board across one end. Strap conventional bales to one side.

 

[getting on]

Continuing this thread, any simple ideas out there, i have a MF30 drill, hopper split in 2, i fill with a half tonne bag of seed half the bag one side half the other. Yesterday i could not prevent the whole bag emptying. I think the bags this year have bigger emptying capacity, fine if the hole bag is going into one hopper. Don't suggest a bucket! Thanks.

 

[tweedale terrier]

Raimo Big Bag Dispenser - Fertiliser Seed Feed Salt Gravel Grain Etc
on ebay

 

[michael N123]

2 Greedy boards on hinges that fold out into a wide V shape
Don’t need to be made out of anything heavy plywood would do

 

[Matthew Britton]

I am planning on making a filler out of expanding foam to narrow my bucket for filling creep feeders if that helps as an idea. I will line it first with plastic so that it doesn’t stick and is easily removable.

 

[bravheart]

Bolted a bit of sleeper inside our bucket to narrow it down a bit, qfbc style. Guess you would need something at least a foot wide each side in your case

 

[yellow belly]

We used to bag seed up by putting bag under the grain shoot of the trailer
got very good at it

now use an hydraulic drive auger

if the bucket is the only option fabricate either plyboard or steel blanking box to fit the end of the bucket

 

[PSQ]

In a Blue Peter style, “here’s one we made earlier”. Grain bucket with 4 slots cut in it, with 4 slides working from a single ram. For fert we blocked off the 2 outside slots with plywood and gaffs tape.

 

[PSQ]

 

[D14]

Raimo Big Bag Dispenser - Fertiliser Seed Feed Salt Gravel Grain Etc
on ebay

It’s not in bags as mentioned. It’s bulk hence why using a bucket.

 

[snipe]

We use a piece of heavy ply wood 1 foot high 2 and a half foot long with a piece of 4” by 4” nailed along one of the long ends. place it on the bottom of the bucket at an angle then use g clamps to hold in place.

 

[Tim Howard]

Continuing this thread, any simple ideas out there, i have a MF30 drill, hopper split in 2, i fill with a half tonne bag of seed half the bag one side half the other. Yesterday i could not prevent the whole bag emptying. I think the bags this year have bigger emptying capacity, fine if the hole bag is going into one hopper. Don't suggest a bucket! Thanks.

I have an 8'6" wide 2 cu yard tote bin with a shoot if you have tines and your near woodhall. I use it with a drainage plough for gravel, It has about 2 ft of flexible pipe on it.

 

[tweedale terrier]

It’s not in bags as mentioned. It’s bulk hence why using a bucket.

@getting on was using a bag.