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Central Nebraska | I have a line on a 10,000 bushel bin that I should be able to get for a good price. I haven't had a chance to get to town and ask questions, so thought I'd ask here. What am I looking at price-wise to have a bin moved 2.5 miles? What is concrete and electricity going to run, approximately? I might also put a new floor in and add a ring, but that is kind of dependent on what concrete, electricity, moving it and putting it up and operational are going to cost. Just wondering what anyone's experiences are with moving a bin. Thanks in advance. |
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| Its cheaper to lower bin to fit under wires than raise wires over bin unless you can stick raise them.
Leave the roof together with as many rings as will fit under.. Shrink rings under it in pairs or singles by splitting it one place then jack down bin,,,tie bottom sheets to top,,,jack up to trailer height,,,back under and run home with it.
A little more thought required but not bad. Must take out any floor first tho,magic marker number the pieces for easy replacement in same spot |
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| Moving is easy, split it with less rings on the bottom, spread it and set the top down inside the bottom. |
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mn | As in good price...... It has to be almost free. .15-.25. and if its 30 yrs old....... Well then u would have a brand new 30 yr old bin. if you do get it. Try to move it in one piece. Otherwise just split it in half if u can. but i would rather pay to have wires dropped then tear down and set back up. toAnother ring. Look around from previous storm damage. But you will need heavier steel for it. Electric depends on what u have on site already. Gonna need it either way. Floor used should be less then half of new. Look or ask around from damage bins. Bigger bins will work just gonna have to cut them down. (Sawzall) not bad to do for a cheap floor. I would bite the bullet and put in a power sweep. Ur back will thank u later. Concrete is gonna depend on if u ad the ring or not. I think a yard yard and a half per 1000 bu. is a good estimate if i remember rite. One thing to think bout to avoid floor and whatnot would be to put it on a cone. No sweep or floor needed then. U will have a crane on site anyways. Your ten thousand bushels will now be 11-11500. Good luck |
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Eastern Ont | http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=337403&posts=1... |
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| This is the easiest way to move bins that I have found.
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western iowa | I have moved and helped move a few. I suppose at 10,000 bushels you are talking about a 30' bin. What is the route like that you will need to travel to move it? Like has been previously said, it is best not to have to totally dismantle it but, you will need to be able to take 30' wide up the road so are there any bridges that you can not get across. If you plan on adding a ring, it needs to go probably above the door and be heavier guage like the lower rings are. If you do some checking around you may be able to find a used ring, but it needs to match your bolt pattern. I once moved a 24',dismantled it down to 2 rings and the roof and moved it with a planter trailer like they used to have for non-folding 8-12 rows. It is really not that big a deal to dismantle the lower rings if you have plenty of help and an impact wrench. You will have to take them apart anyway to add the ring. I have rented jacks but, if you know someone with a crane that is easier. I would not spend over 25 cents a bushel for the bin, unless it is newer. The bolts, renting jacks or crane,getting help and time involved will add up and you will have a used bin when you are done. If you buy a new floor,out auger and the concrete, it is the same cost as putting up a new one that size. Good Luck.
There are bin moving companies that can be hired to move it, do a little research and you will find them. |
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Newdale, Manitoba, Canada | We moved a couple of 7,500 bushel bins (24 feet diameter) a few years back - moved 2 miles. Had to have power lines cut, but there were no farm yards along the route...only 4 old yard sites with bins. Talked to the land owners/renters. All said no problem. Had the utility come in and cut the lines. They came back a week later to re-attach. Worked out great, but I realize that not all moves are going to be that flexible!
I've got another one to move and I'm hoping to wait until after freeze up next year and transport it around on neighbour's fields to get to my yard. (See, there's an advantage to living at the end of the power grid.)
Andrew
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| Several years ago moved one. Looked at walking it, only a little over a mile and all the ground between both sites were ours. Ended up having it taken all apart. Only worked money-wise because we added additional rings to increase the capacity by over 10,000 bushel. |
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| The problem with that is the person that has it has priced a new bin. So they will want roughly 1/2 of new. But what they forget is its not in a pile their floor is junk. Their unload is junk, they don't have any/enough roof vents. A new bin like this is only $7000 it takes 5k to knock it down and $5k to put it back. So what they have is only worth $1000 tops they never want to sell them for that. |
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Eastern Iowa | Cattle Feeder - 11/5/2012 08:04
The problem with that is the person that has it has priced a new bin. So they will want roughly 1/2 of new. But what they forget is its not in a pile their floor is junk. Their unload is junk, they don't have any/enough roof vents. A new bin like this is only $7000 it takes 5k to knock it down and $5k to put it back. So what they have is only worth $1000 tops they never want to sell them for that.
exactly
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| yup alot of work even to split. have to put pressure chains on the inside to keep from warping, and then going back together those preven a easy return drop back onto the lower set of rings. Depending on the roof strength, may have to put lift brackets on sidewalls to lift without destroying roof.
Wouldnt do it again........had to put outriggers on goosneck to avoid bending rings at points where it sat down on............it was all a pain in the arse |
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WI. | Smoothlander - 11/4/2012 23:51
How big of a bin is that ???
This is the easiest way to move bins that I have found.
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| nutman61 - 11/5/2012 08:21
Smoothlander - 11/4/2012 23:51
How big of a bin is that ???
This is the easiest way to move bins that I have found.
That was only a 18' but we figure we could move a 30' as long as it isn't over 30' tall. |
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WC Ohio | Explain how you hooked to the bin on top, and did you need bracing inside? |
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| looking - 11/5/2012 08:49
Explain how you hooked to the bin on top, and did you need bracing inside?
All we did was run a 8"x8" across the inside of the opening and wrapped a chain around it. When we moved a larger bin we braced across it in two locations, ran a chain up from each of the four anchor points up to a truck tire then out the top. |
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NC ND | this is a good way to do it
bins were free otherwise it woulnd't have been cost effective to move them 18 miles. Need some work and may add a bottom ring, but the $.30 carry till January on corn will pay for the moving this year already. Plus it made corn harvest/drying go alot better. Hope to use the excavator idea next summer when I mount them onto pads.
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Eastern Ont | Had one neigbour move it all
lifted bin up slid to hydro pole under the floor, placed a tarp under bin and pulled up tight, tied it,
then put bin on trailer and brought it home
untied tarp, place the dozen supports that fell off and put the bin back down in its new home
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wnw Iroquois county IL | In the early 1970's I moved somewhere around 35 to 40 bins for a guy that built bins, we had a old house trailer stripped to the frame and laid 2by12's an the frame and set the top half on it and clamped it down to them, we raised the top with a truck tire and rim thru the center hole on top with an old light company crane, the bottom half with a cross + shaped spreader bar and set them on 2 by 12's clamped down , we loosened 4 seams in the bottom ring of the top and they would slip right of, most of them were 18' gov. bins but I also move some 21' and at least a dozen 24',s back then the country bridges were not to wide so had to pick your roads to go on , Half of the 24's had a bridge an both sides of them , so would load them drive to the bridge back up to them with the crane lift them up and over the bridge and back up thru them and reload, then do the other half ,some days I could only get 2 done a day depending an how far we had to go and how much help the farmer had , we only furnished 3 men to drive trucks and small crane. wouldn't do it an a bet now adays , but I was only 35 years old then with a family of three growing boys and not smart enough to know better and needed the money. |
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wnw Iroquois county IL | Someone told me them were the good old days, but it was fun back then. |
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