Coal Bin Pictures and Designs

I'm building an outdoor bin for a friend. 14 x 24 pad. 6' high cement blocks. Home made trusses. Going to be a removable top.

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Phil, you have our attention. How do you fill it?

Mr.May,

That is quite a tower/silo. I see the hatch in the gable and assume you'll fill it with farm auger. Excellent work.

PS. I like the dueled up 86 series IH in the shop too. My family still has a pair of 1086's. Dad bought one new in '79 or 80. Had the Elwood front assist put on a year later. They merge hay for haylage with it now with a NH 166 single pick up merger! They also have a 3 pt boom rotory mower they put on it in the fall. They eventually upgraded to Magnums and have a pair of the newer MX series now along with STX. Farming sure has changed in the last 30 years. Auto steer GPS on everything now a days. Dad still has his Farmalls.

DANG Phil! It is a big silo!!!!!! Sweet! You going to run a flex auger to your 700?

Yes I ran a flexflow 300 to the inside bin that holds 3-4 ton. It is a slow process with that small of an auger and the angle I had to install it on. It probably moves 500lb/hour. And yes it is an old IH986 with duals in the shop. I fill the outside bin with an 8" grain auger.

NICE setup !!

You have come a long way Phil. That bin ended up being right where you said it would go. You are my hero

Hero OK I just have absolutly no tolerence for srewing around with stuff any more. I hope the 24 ton last 2 winters but it probably wont. My plan is to get the coal in summer and give it plenty of time to drain/dry so it wont freeze in the winter. To auger the buck at the steep angle I have it really needs to be the next size up auger #350. The #300 is slow. I just turn it on and leave it for 2-3 hours at a time. The grain auger is a little slow to. I plugged it right off the start. You can only run about half the coal as corn or grain.

How comes that "coal" coming off the truck isn't black??? Ahha,buckwheat is a light color We used a 6" x 21' auger to move our black rice coal from truck to bin,no problem & the tractor was @ 1600 RPM ,we ran the hopper full,that kept the auger full ,worked very good. We were not trying to drop it on top of the moon either.

I posted the wrong pic. That is oats going in my grain bin. The auger is a 8"x71' I could probably run it harder but it is a royal pain to unplug. I think rice would auger easier than Buck. It really aint a big deal being a little slow if I only have to do it once every 2 years.

Phil, I've not been off the farm long enough to have forgotten what grain looks like. 50' more auger length than ours & buck most likely moves harder than the rice.If my memory serves me correctly,i believe corn augers harder than oats,so the bigger coal size should flow harder too. You are correct that it is not a big deal to do it 1 time every 2 yrs or even if it was 1 time per yr.as long as it's not cold out when you do it.

Inspired by Jim from Macungie

Very Impressive plumberman!!!

A couple questions....How many ton does it hold for you? The auger length wise in the bin feeds the auger going through the basement wall? Are they on separate motors or is there a linkage between them that allows them to be driven from the motor in the basement?

aprox 8 tons, 6'w x 12'l x 6' h. 2 separate 4"utility augers