Northern Indiana | pigfarmer82 - 2/2/2024 06:43
To justify it your whole system needs to be designed for a leg to start with. We dry similar amount through our system and use one leg. We do not use an air system. Hopper bins are nice but way overpriced and if only purpose is for loading grain to market you can add it later. I added a camera to load out so my Dad can sit in truck on cell phone and move truck till end to shut things down. Also a leg doesn’t need a tower it can be done on the cheep with cables some pipe and few yard of concrete. Go look at different setups and get ideas. Sometimes trying to convert a setup that isn’t designed for a leg is more expensive then starting over. However by your description your’s doesn’t sound to bad.
A leg will fit in at the setup fine, starting over is totally unfeasible. Overhead will be for loadout, for coring bins into, and auxiliary wet storage in the fall so we can fill the wet bin with dry corn at the end of the year. It also seems like it would be a pain to have 48' bin unload, feeding 80' of drag, feeding a 100' leg, running down an 80' pipe directly into the truck. Seems like you'd have to choke off the unload 5 minutes before the truck was full to not run it over.
Cables would save us $35k but one wire would be 40' in a corn field, and another would be dead center of a nice open driveway. Plus using the tower to mount our air piping to. |
Justify a Grain Leg
