Newguy - 11/8/2012 20:35
Our wet leg is 7500 bph, good corn within 2.5 miles a 30' corn head, cart, one guy with 3 semi's can keep up. Add the other 8 row combine with cart, trucks will wait to dump, and combines will start to sit after an hour or so. In this last scenerio, a pit would be useless. A larger leg is on the want list.
A pit is never useless. You don't need a large pit in that scenario but a pit large enough to keep the leg full while trucks are moving on/off the dump gains a considerable amount of grain elevated in a days time. The local elevator here put up a big new leg a couple yrs ago with no pit, just a drag conveyor. By my estimation not having a pit gives up at a minimum 20% of the legs capacity by letting it run empty between trucks and switching hoppers. | 
Wet Leg Size?
