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West central Ohio | We did the pipe deal. I think we used 1 1/2 emt conduit with a sweep ell (because that's what we had). Cut the ell down to where it would fit in the auger tube. Ran a piece of 1/4 or 5/16 cable through the pipe first. Welded a piece on outer end of cable to chuck in drill and start drilling while forcing cable in. Used a smaller piece of pipe over the cable outside bin so we could push against cable. Can leave end of cable with cut with welder so it doesn't fray or can let it fray. If we needed to go down from top, we connected sections of pipe or square tubing together and welded a 12"piece of 6" auger flight to end of pipe and use pipe wrench or vice grips to turn it down through grain. Measured to find center of bin and used level to plumb the pipe. Hit it the second try. Won't punch a hole in floor. You can feel when you are on the plug. Need to pin sections of pipe together so it wont unscrew. Used several sections and kept adding as needed since we didn't have much head space. This was on a 12 ring bin. Neighbor borrowed big gas engine air compressor (like used for jack hammer) and used a pipe with ell and made a nozzle on the end to shoot up into sump. Worked for him. He used to stuff a rag in tube and fill with acetylene from torch then stand back light it. Said it work most times and he lived to tell about it! After that all of our bins have sump guards and have never had the problem again. Took a couple more plugs before neighbor decided to spend the $100 for sump guard. | |
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Plugged grain bin?
