![]() ![]() ![]() For the other 10 months a year, I'm glad to have it! ) Even if I grumble about it in weather like this when the silo gets smaller inside every day in below zero weather. What is available out there, and for those of you using them, what do you like/dislike about any of them? (No offense to the bag and pit silo guys, but this stave silo is already there and operates so cheaply it is sort of a no-brainer to keep using it with a new unloader. First one, a Hansen that cost my dad about $1900 at the time, lasted 40+ years with some TLC. Working on emptying a 20x70 and I think I am going to take the opportunity this spring to put a new unloader in it for haylage. Posted 15:08 (#3512908) Subject: Anybody buy a silo unloader lately? ( logon | register )Īnybody buy a silo unloader lately? Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 Also, agree on it being slow filling.With all that said, neighbor also had one in a poured concrete silo, and it would take feed as fast as you could blow it up the pipe, and it also unloaded very well.You are logged in as a guest. Grew up around a BIG JIM in a stave.It worked ok, but I think the dealer who put it in years ago didn't know a whole lot about what he was doing, it never put the feed out automatically (Lower ) like it should have, we'd lower it with the switch until the load meter showed a decent load, which worked, but definitely wasn't using it to its capacity. A circuit board shorted out and it cost $750.00 plus waiting 6 months to be manufactured, luckily I was able to limp by having reduced functions and being done filling for the year. Jamesway no longer manufactures this unloader. So for me it is a love/hate relationship. If you plug hole or have electrical problems, you are done filling until it gets fixed. If I couldn't get it unplugged myself, it would cost one to two thousand to get it unplugged.The worst time it cost $6,000.00 to unplug. The longer and dryer the haylage becomes, the worse it is. You almost have to be at the blower because no one else wants to avoid problems like you do! Hole plugged several times over the years. You need to watch the amp meter to see if it doesn't raise quick enough or after several years the auger bearing wore and it started to catch the bolt heads on the harv so you can stop it or the overload on the motor trips you need to go up and reset it and air temp is 95 and the motor is sizzling hot and you need to wait for it to cool down all the while loads are coming in to be unloaded every 10 minutes. Feed out is as fast as your conveyers can take it away. They do such a good job distributing that they will allow you to put about 15 to 20 percent more feed in the silo compared to using a spout distributor. Check the chipper adjustment every year and make sure the wheels that run on the silo wall turn freely. Just grease at the top and the bottom, and replace the suspension cables about every eight or ten years. In fact, if the silage is too dry it tends to flake off of the hole sides and can plug up from just the lose material falling in. I have even seen them with a tunnel big enough for a silage cart to fit in, and a few farms had tunnel bases that the mixer wagon could be backed in under the silo (that's getting a little extreme in my opinion ). The new style, where a tunnel is built large enough for a man to get in and open the hole from underneath makes it a much better system. It would usually break a few slats on the conveyor if it didn't stall it entirely. Lots of extensions for the drill auger, tools lost in the loose silage, and the worst part was if you dropped the auger and couldn't pull it back up. On the old style, where there was just a small passage for the conveyor to fit through the bottom, unplugging was a bad job that took all day. There are some companies that do good conversions, and I have heard that they work quite well. Not in a Harvestore, but many years in a poured concrete silo. If you build a silo for this, make the manway larger than 1 door. The trick is to not plug the hole when filling. You don't need to change doors and you don't need to crawl up there to check on it much either. It will pack the feed in real well and it feeds out real fast. Loved it! Haven't used for about 4 yrs now so would sell for parts. Jamesway "Big Jim" or the newer quantum? Built a 20x80 Rochester in '81 with that unloader. ![]()
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