Moving coal auger/vac from ibc tote

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Post by jrv8984 » Tue. Aug. 03, 2021 9:11 am

Start this off by saying. I'm burning Pea coal.
My AHS260 is in my garage. I can't do gravity feed. There's no easy way to to build a bin outside and get access to fill it up.

I've been using 1ton grain bags and moving them in an out of the garage with a pallet jack, and bucketing the coal into the hopper. Needless to say, it's getting old, and I just recovered from shoulder surgery.

Can't build a bin inside the garage, no way to get the coal up into the bin easily, because I have to move the coal 38' into the back of the garage.

So I was thinking about using the large 330 gallon ibc totes.

By Using the spigot on the bottom of the tote, which is 2.25" diameter.

Option A- creating a coal vac to suck it out the bottom of the tote.

Option B- inserting a flex auger into the spigot and augering it out.

 
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Post by Kungur » Sun. Aug. 08, 2021 7:42 am

I use rice coal and have a vac setup. I am only moving it abot 12' though. With the distance you are considered and it being pea I would seriously consider the auger setup.

 
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Post by jrv8984 » Sun. Aug. 08, 2021 1:15 pm

If it's in the bins, then I only need to vac the coal like 6'.


 
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Post by McGiever » Mon. Aug. 16, 2021 11:52 am

Vacuum coal from topside with proper wand...not from IBC tote small bottom valve outlet.

Auger is simple for mostly vertical lift.

 
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Post by swyman » Mon. Aug. 16, 2021 12:41 pm

I have built 2 different vac systems through the years. First on was for transferring corn in a boiler. This worked very well for the couple years I used it. When I switched to coal I was first using buckwheat. My system had a wand that would fill a 30 gallon barrel above my hopper. The following season I switched to rice as my boiler would burn both. It would take approx 9 minutes to fill the barrel with buck and only 4 minutes with rice. Now I have pea and have a auger. I didn't try it but with the setup up I had, the larger coal would have been tough to transfer in an acceptable amount of time. I only had a single vac and I know you could add more to increase lift but get expensive buying big shop vacs.

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