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Post by kevlar on Sept 11, 2021 20:09:23 GMT -6
We are going to have a couple of piles of grain to clean up after harvest. We have a Brandt 7500 I think off hand, and the nozzle it has is a heavy brute with 4 small castor wheels and sucks up from the bottom. That’s fine in a bin, but sucks on rough and soft terrain, we cleaned up a pile of oats last year and that was brutal with the nozzle we have. I see AGI makes a nozzle that sucks from the front and has two large wheels, and Thor Manufacturing does as well. Do any of you have experience with either of those, or suggest any other makes?
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Post by meskie on Sept 11, 2021 21:14:20 GMT -6
I think westeel meridian superior brock etc make some really good units that clean up nice…….
Otherwise we have just used an auger or two and pushed it into them with a loader. Put a pipe on the cutting edge so it doesn’t dig in as much. I know guys who have used their swing auger and a snow bucket on skid steer also.
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Post by Albertabuck on Sept 11, 2021 21:18:51 GMT -6
What exactly are you sucking the grain off of? Grass, plastic, ect?
I always use my normal nozzle on mine, five inch pipe with about a 45* cut on intake end. You can adjust how much suck simply by titling or standing the nozzle more upright. I have an air vent on mine, when doing clean up like that I close the vent, increases suction a bit that way.
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Post by kenmb on Sept 11, 2021 22:17:05 GMT -6
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Post by kevlar on Sept 11, 2021 23:45:12 GMT -6
That one in the link Ken was one I had seen and was wondering about, looks very similar to the one we had with our old REM. The other one I had seen looked like it might be made of plastic so should be light. Lighter the better when trying to move around an 8 inch hose. The current one we have I bet weighs 30 pounds, add the weight of the hose, plus the suction to the ground, it was a pig last year to clean up the pile.
Have a fair bit of experience cleaning up grain piles, in the hundreds of thousands of bushels in my lifetime. Yes, I know we need more bins! Have tried pretty much every possible way, each has it's advantages and disadvantages. When I was a lot younger, it was a 7 inch auger with the limb ripping drag auger bolted right to the auger shaft and a shovel, then sometimes use the vac to clean up behind it, but if there was any snow in the mixture, the vac was useless. Have done the tractor and bucket with auger, then clean up with vac after, works good but then all the hard work comes at once and if anything happens to the vac and it gets snowed or rained on before you get it fixed, it's pretty much impossible to get it. A vac for the whole pile is a little slower. but it's cleaned right up as you go. This vac is fast, so it's not a bad job. We usually try to pile on mowed grass, easy to clean up, and if the weather cooperates, almost no waste. Tried laying a tarp under it once, never again! This year have a pile on grass and one in the field. I find the tractor and bucket route pulls out too much stubble if you try to clean it up too much, getting lots of dirt and rocks etc. in with it.
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Post by SWMan on Sept 11, 2021 23:54:53 GMT -6
Nice problem, no shortage of empty bins in this area.
Snowblower works good to clean piles up, maybe not the last few inches but most of the bushels. Just blow onto end of a running auger.
The spout Ken linked works good from what I have seen. I hope you took lawnmower and mowed the stubble real short before piling.
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Post by carlos on Sept 12, 2021 7:35:25 GMT -6
I think I have something like the one in the pic. Will take a pic and figure out how to put on here. I dont use a vac anymore.
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Post by carlos on Sept 12, 2021 21:14:26 GMT -6
This is what I have. Called the Alligator Attachments:
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Post by carlos on Sept 12, 2021 21:18:28 GMT -6
2 more Attachments:
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Post by kenworthman on Sept 14, 2021 20:19:10 GMT -6
I've used my Brant 5200 on several piles, I just put taller wheels on the 4 wheel cleanup attachment. Still went plenty close to the grass.
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Post by kevlar on Sept 15, 2021 19:44:18 GMT -6
Ordered one today, the ones that come with a REM vac like what Ken posted. They don't exactly give those things away!! Had to reduce it down to 7 inch because nobody makes an 8 inch, and also sick of man handling a 8 inch hose. For the nozzle, clamp and parts needed to reduce it, came close to a grand!! Not including hose.
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Post by kevlar on Sept 22, 2021 22:18:49 GMT -6
Got to use the new nozzle today, weighs probably a third of what the Brandt one does, so much easier to handle. I wouldn't think it slows it down any having reduced it to 7 inches for one length of hose. Not sure about the longevity of it though, main body of it is plastic, handle and a ring that goes around it for the wheels is metal and a replaceable metal wear strip on the bottom front. More than likely I will wear out before it will anyway.
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