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Southwest Illinois | Side chutes are a pain. In tough corn you can have a lot of bushels left in the trailer.
A couple easy options would be to buy a low profile hopper. Most companies sell them to retrofit a standard height hopper. We priced it a few years ago on a Hutchinson and it was about $1500 to switch over. We wound up trading for a new auger with the low profile hopper. You can alos buy a roll around low profile hopper to slide under your trailer. The downfall is the require electric or hydraulics and they can be heavy to move, especially the elctric ones. we have a Hutchinson and Sudenga drive over pits. The Hutch has a fair bit more capacity but the Sudenga does come standard with a side dump option that costs extra on the Hutch. The Hutch is built a bit heavier but we have had no problems with the Sudega other than a weld that failed on a ramp. The drive over pits are very nice and if you have a forklift or loader handy they are very simple to move. We had a fixed shallow homade pit with an auger in it and it always had water trouble and you could never clean it up well and it only could service one bin. | |
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side chutes or drive over hopper
