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hectolitre measurement equipment

bert

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
n.yorks
Wanting to buy one and wondered what is out there that's cheap and simple that I can chuck on the table next to the drier.

So what is everybody using or recommend?

TIA
 

Renaultman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
This is what we use but I never know whether to give it a tap to firm? In the labs they drop a weight in a cylinder onto it before measuring.
Most of the ones I've been in it's just a slide. I would reckon the tap would be doing yourself a favour.
My posh one was very comparable to a proper one when I delivered my oats.
 

Colin

Member
Location
Perthshire
I a proper bushel testers the weight is below the grain, you fill the top half above the slide with the weight and then the grain. Set down somewhere level, pull out slide, let the whole lot drop, push the slide back in and tip the excess out. This means that a set volume is measured each time. Then you weigh that.
However you could just weight a litre of grain, doesn't matter how you do tit, just do it the same way each time, then you have something to compare to merchants tests.
 
Hectolitre is 100 kg so a cereal with a specific weight of 76kg/hlt, 100 litres of the grain weighs 76kg. To measure use a cylinder of 1 litre, easy enough to make, pour grain in through funnel or piece of paper till it is over full, level off and weigh. The scales will show 7.6kg. simples

PS its accuracy depends on whether the end receiver is being arsey or not as usual.
 

Bruce Almighty

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Warwickshire
Hectolitre is 100 kg so a cereal with a specific weight of 76kg/hlt, 100 litres of the grain weighs 76kg. To measure use a cylinder of 1 litre, easy enough to make, pour grain in through funnel or piece of paper till it is over full, level off and weigh. The scales will show 7.6kg. simples

PS its accuracy depends on whether the end receiver is being arsey or not as usual.

Do you mean 0.76 kg in a litre ?
 

snarling bee

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
I also have a Dickey John mini gac, or whatever it is called. It is very accurate on bushel weight, but a faff for a quick moisture. Sinar would also do b. weight, but was not very accurate at all.
 

bert

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
n.yorks
I ordered a martin Lishman one in the end, the cheapest they do. we didn't have any electronic scales or any 1 litre jugs without cutting them. I think it will be interesting to see how much the mobile drier moves the bushel weight and against the merchants if it is sold at a good price and want to knock it down
 

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