"Made-It-Myself" Drill Fill Auger
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When Jeff Van Soest switched from using bags to buying seed in bulk, he needed an easier way to fill his grain drill. So the Moorefield, Ontario, farmer converted a 40-ft. long, 6-in. dia. auger that he already had into a 22-ft. "drill fill" auger. It's complete with a big steel hopper and a short tongue welded onto the bottom end, allowing him to use a garden tractor to move it around.
"We use a gravity wagon to fill the hopper. It lets us fill our 13-ft. drill with very little effort," says Van Soest.
He cut the auger in half at the seam, then welded a 2-ft. section back onto the top end. He also mounted the original frame back onto the shortened auger. The original gearbox was damaged so he rebuilt it and remounted it at the top of the auger. He also added a length of telescoping tubing - a length of old blower pipe from a feed truck - to the end of auger.
"It lets us fill our 21-run drill in only about five minutes, compared to a half hour when we were using bags," says Van Soest. "We use the auger's original winch to lift the auger up to clear the drill or let it down for storage. All our gravity wagons are mounted on big truck tires so they will easily clear oversize hoppers, which we needed to mix inoculant with seed.
"We pull a packer behind our drill. The auger is long enough that we can back it up to the center of the drill without having to unhook the packer. The telescoping tube flexes back and forth far enough to reach to both sides of the drill."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jeff Van Soest, Box 14, Moorefield, Ontario, Canada N0G 2K0 (ph 519 638-2814).
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"Made-It-Myself" Drill Fill Auger AUGERS Augers (29B) 26-2-11 When Jeff Van Soest switched from using bags to buying seed in bulk, he needed an easier way to fill his grain drill. So the Moorefield, Ontario, farmer converted a 40-ft. long, 6-in. dia. auger that he already had into a 22-ft. "drill fill" auger. It's complete with a big steel hopper and a short tongue welded onto the bottom end, allowing him to use a garden tractor to move it around.
"We use a gravity wagon to fill the hopper. It lets us fill our 13-ft. drill with very little effort," says Van Soest.
He cut the auger in half at the seam, then welded a 2-ft. section back onto the top end. He also mounted the original frame back onto the shortened auger. The original gearbox was damaged so he rebuilt it and remounted it at the top of the auger. He also added a length of telescoping tubing - a length of old blower pipe from a feed truck - to the end of auger.
"It lets us fill our 21-run drill in only about five minutes, compared to a half hour when we were using bags," says Van Soest. "We use the auger's original winch to lift the auger up to clear the drill or let it down for storage. All our gravity wagons are mounted on big truck tires so they will easily clear oversize hoppers, which we needed to mix inoculant with seed.
"We pull a packer behind our drill. The auger is long enough that we can back it up to the center of the drill without having to unhook the packer. The telescoping tube flexes back and forth far enough to reach to both sides of the drill."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jeff Van Soest, Box 14, Moorefield, Ontario, Canada N0G 2K0 (ph 519 638-2814).
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