Can you hit 60' bins with augers?
dpilot83
Posted 1/30/2026 08:50 (#11532791)
Subject: Can you hit 60' bins with augers?



I asked a bin dealer, "what's the biggest bin you can hit with an auger". We were talking 13" but I wouldn't even rule out 16" if they make longer 16" augers (I don't even know). They did not claim to be knowledgeable about what augers were capable of as they don't sell augers but they thought maybe you could hit a 60' by 12 ring. I'm a bit worried that if I pursued such a path I'd get the bin set up and I'd put the auger up to it and I would quickly learn that I need to sell the auger and spend a half million on a leg and skip one year of using the bins that I just built. I'm also worried that if it does work I'd learn that it's so steep that I would have about half the speed I was expecting. Looking at a max of about 21% corn but mostly dryer than that. I would really hate for dumping a truck to take longer than 10 minutes. Would prefer closer to 5 but we can't have everything.

What's possible?

Thanks

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