Southeast PA | kb ag - 11/22/2023 14:15
could you put something like that 500 bu single pit but with a corner auger coming out of it and place it behind your current dump so you can unload both hoppers at once. Have the back pit auger not start until you are done with the front hopper where you hit a button to start it as you are driving away and a pressure switch or amp monitor that will shut it down when empty? Basically the corner auger from the pit dumps into your drag trough after you are not dumping into it directly. With a new leg, you could also design it to handle both simultaneously, but no matter how fast of leg you have it still could be faster to feed it at capacity one at a time and have the pit empty while you are not there.
I assume you have the trailer in there pretty straight to dump the front hopper currently so it would not affect room needed for the drive to add the second pit under the rear hopper when the trailer is setting there square anyway? I may have front and back reversed because you may dump opposite of what your truck is in the pics. Weigh full, then slide forwards to dump, use known empty weight?
This is a really good idea as long as you have time between trucks coming to dump. Start dumping the rear hopper over the u-trough, then walk to the front hopper over the pit, empty it, get a sample and test and then the back hopper is done.
Only thing is you are set at the max unload capacity of 4500/hr, unless you add a 2nd leg or put a faster one in its place-then you're going to find wet holding or drying is the next bottleneck.
At work we have a drag with 2 small spots to dump into side by side in the same drag like others have said. It saves time moving an empty and then getting the full truck in place. When things are really moving with 2 or 3 combines, there is normally always at least 2 trucks here to unload. It saves a minute or 2 on every trailer which adds up after 30 or 40 loads. We do need to pull up to unload, and it will always empty the outside truck first.
Edited by AGB1640 11/22/2023 21:56
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Removing concrete scale for grain dump pit?
