Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | The Clipper 47D is mounted at the left rear of the reefer, leaving about a 3 ft alley on the right. The air discharge duct and tailings elevator for the Clipper exits the right trailer wall high overhead and drops into a "screenings" gravity wagon parked at the right rear of the reefer.
The Carter Day disc cleaner is 3 ft forward of the clipper and on the right. A bit further forward and on the left is the "dirty" grain bin that feeds the Clipper through a 4 inch (plastic flyting) auger with a double reduction jackshaft so it runs very slow (15BPH).
A few more ft forward again and on the right is the "clean " storage bin that holds clean grain from the Clipper air screen cleaner, delivered by a very low speed "flex auger" (again 15BPH).
At the right front of the trailer is the Forsberg V50 gravity table Fed by a rigid double reduction 4 inch auger from the "clean" bin, or fed by a flex auger from the Carter Day disc cleaner which is also fed by 4 inch auger from the "clean" bin.
The clean output from the gravity table goes into another low speed 4 inch rigid auger that exits the left front of the reefer and dumps into a tote bag or grain truck.
In the right front of the reefer we mounted a large centrifigual blower using outside air to pressurize the trailer and blow any dust out the open rear doors.
It fits well enough that there is plenty of room to move around in there, plus storage for many sets of cleaner screens and other supplies.
The vacuum gravity table pulls screened air from a large hole in the floor under the gravity table and exhausts it to the 7 hp blower mounted outside on the upper front center of the reefer trailer.
It is less complicated and works better than it sounds, but you are pretty busy fine tuning all three cleaners to constantly to compensate for small changes in grain weight, moisture and temperature.
http://www.atferrell.com/clipper/products/clipper-eclipse-324.
The Eclipse 324 or 334 appears to be amuch newer machine with 3 screens where the 47D has only 2. It does not appear to have the second (pre screen) aspirator, but that is something that may be an option on the 324. I would trust Clipper to supply parts / service for it as long as you might want to use it, good machines. By the listed screen size, I would bet it has quality and quantity equal or better than the 47D. I do like the 47D's varnished hardwood frame better though. Eye candy, it's a 64 model. ;-)
Edited by Jon Hagen 3/19/2012 22:02
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