New coal bin
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Picked this up today to use for my coal bin. Thinking I will spin the tub around power it with an electric motor and remove the upward facing auger so it will auger out the back into an auger in my lean to that fills my hopper. Needs a little reinforcement work but pretty solid. Should hold close to 3 ton and can take it and get it filled
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Should hold about 2, 2 1/2 tons?
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I have been doing a little work on the bin cutting unnecessary things off and setting it up to unload out the back without the "spout". Do any of you guy with auger bin experience no if a 220v 2.5 hp motor will start and run the auger in the bottom it's a 5 inch auger about 6 ft long, it came in the grain wagon. I will have a 3 inch pulley on motor and 13 on auger. These are things I had or srounged up cheap so would like to use them if possible
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That will put you around 400 rpm, should work but if it doesn't just put a larger pulley on the auger.Symonds86 wrote: ↑Tue. Mar. 26, 2019 11:17 amI have been doing a little work on the bin cutting unnecessary things off and setting it up to unload out the back without the "spout". Do any of you guy with auger bin experience no if a 220v 2.5 hp motor will start and run the auger in the bottom it's a 5 inch auger about 6 ft long, it came in the grain wagon. I will have a 3 inch pulley on motor and 13 on auger. These are things I had or srounged up cheap so would like to use them if possible
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There's a smart man...he'll be throwing all his coal buckets and coal shovels away very soon...
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Nice welds! You are looking good.
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Was there some type of cover over the auger? I assume there was and you will need it to meter how much coal gets into the auger.
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Have seen others here who used large notches in continuos cover with external lever to adjust every notch to rotate wide to narrow and back for the entire length...metered control for no jams due to auger being totally buried...
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All the ones I have seen in combines are just sheet metal bent to a 90 and have a couple inch gap all along. I could get some pics and a measurement for you? What size coal you going to run?
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It would be better if you purchased a couple lengths of channel iron and tack welded them on both ends of the trailer to allow the coal to be reclaimed from the center or simply have one long piece of channel or angle iron that is 3/4 the length of the grain trailer so that the auger is not completely buried risking a broken shear pin and no coal moving along.