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nc ks | We have a truck loadout downspout that drops 70' or so to the truck. 2/3 of the drop is at an angle close to a 45 and the last 1/3 is straight down. We primarily load brokered trucks and they rarely get perfectly centered so some kernals bounce off their bow straps and out of the truck and make a mess as there are several places they get underneath equipment and such. At the spot where the direction changes to vertical we have a dead head space that is supposed to dampen the speed of the grain some. It doesn't seem to much at all and before the grain piles in the truck it sounds like it is trying to burn a hole in the hopper. I would like to make a homemade cushion box or dampner or whatever to make it like the grain is falling from 10' into the truck rather than like it is coming from 100' straight up. Anyone make anything for this? The lower area of the downspout doesn't have any support so I was trying to do something without having to add a lot more bracing as there isn't anything of substance very close.
The best thing to do would be to build a superstructure with a bin on it to fill into, we just aren't to that point yet.
Edited by kb ag 12/3/2025 15:38
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homemade grain downspout dampner to make splatter less when loading trucks.
