SP Grain "Cart" Makes Harvest Go Smoother

SP Grain "Cart" Makes Harvest Go Smoother GRAIN HANDLING Miscellaneous 22-3-17 Glenn Handke says hauling grain is a lot easier since he built a self-propelled grain cart out of the frame of a 1978 International truck. The Raymond, S. Dak., farmer bought a Killbros 550-bu. gravity wagon with center dump for the project. He cut the box off the frame and running gear and bolted it on back of the 1978 International 1850 truck equipped with a 466 cu. in. diesel engine he also bought for the project. He mounted the box near the center of the truck frame, which lowered the center dump's ground clearance by about 6 in. compared with its original placement on the wagon. For maneuverability and steering, Handke mounted a heavy duty tag axle off an old Dodge truck just in front of the center dump, halfway between the front and rear axles. "I mounted a pivot point ahead of the push axle and connected the two up with a long tie rod," Handke says. "There's half as much travel on the tag axle as there is on the front axle so it trails straight. I also mounted a stabilizer cylinder, like a shock absorber, on the tie rod at the push axle to keep the rig from shimmying when driving down the highway. "It'll haul over 500 bushels and I can pull a second 550-bu. Killbros gravity wagon be-hind it." Out-of-pocket expense was under $10,000, including $2,700 for the gravity wagon and $6,500 for the truck. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Glenn Handke, HC1, Box 15, Raymond, S. Dak. 57258 (ph 605 532-3406).

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