Need a new Chute!

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Kungur
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My old plywood with sheet metal chute and funnel setup is needing to be replaced. I would like to use 6"pvc pipe for the chute but need some ideas for the funnel where the coal guy puts his chute.
I have seen where pvc heated with a heat gun can be manipulted into different shapes.
Thoughts??

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Post by McGiever »

Six inch????? Too small for gravity even for rice.

Farm auger supply has funnel of sorts.

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Post by freetown fred »

The chute on my suppliers truck is 10" & runs on to his conveyer-- K, your supplier don't have a conveyer belt???????


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Post by Richard S. »

When I was delivering coal most of things customers did thinking they were helping were detrimental. The ideal opening for delivering coal at least for a high lift is as high as it can be relative to the bin (no more that 5 or 6 foot above ground level), wide and no obstructions. Ideally the bin is long relative to the bin instead of wide. If you have a ground level window I could fill it up to the rafters 8 feet back without ever touching a shovel. Gravity and polished aluminum chutes are a wonderful thing.

With sufficient angle the PVC will work but that's going to be pretty slow and winter time delivery could be problem with frozen chunks. One of the tricks is to angle the chute to one side and let it out slow, this will narrow the coal stream to a few inches and it can get it into small openings like that. You can just do some kind of temporary thing like cutting the bottom out a five gallon bucket to place over it when you are getting delivery. It's not ideal by any means.

One common material in old houses was clay sewer pipe (especially for longer runs under a porch for example) but those would tend to get out of alignment after many decades or they had switched to rice which had no hope of going down the original angle. For them I had the magic chute which was a heavy gauge SS chute that was about 6 inches wide and five feet long. I would just shove the whole chute down the pipe.

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Post by Den034071 »

K look into Green Plastic Water Line pipe .I believe its 12 inches wide .Concrete guys that do Footers on new houses Cut The pipe in half .They will shoot The Concrete from above foundation into wood forms.Works Great .jack

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+1 on that Jack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

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