Auger Moving Made Easy
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Sometimes you have to develop back problems before you look for ways to minimize back-straining work. That's what happened to Randy Svendsen of Volin, South Dakota, who was motivated by back trouble to design and build a device to make the job of moving augers a lot easier.
He built a 3-pt. mounted boom that does the work for him. It has a ball hitch receiver which attaches to balls Svendsen welded to each of his two augers. When hooked up, the boom holds the auger up, so the operator can use the tractor to maneuver the auger into position, and then slide the hopper under.
He says the project took him three short days to complete, and since he made most of it out of scrap iron, incorporating an existing cylinder he had around the farm, the boom cost him only about $200.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Randy Svendsen, 30271 445 Ave., Volin, S. Dak. 57072 (ph 605 263-3810).
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Auger Moving Made Easy AUGERS Augers (29B) 28-1-10 Sometimes you have to develop back problems before you look for ways to minimize back-straining work. That's what happened to Randy Svendsen of Volin, South Dakota, who was motivated by back trouble to design and build a device to make the job of moving augers a lot easier.
He built a 3-pt. mounted boom that does the work for him. It has a ball hitch receiver which attaches to balls Svendsen welded to each of his two augers. When hooked up, the boom holds the auger up, so the operator can use the tractor to maneuver the auger into position, and then slide the hopper under.
He says the project took him three short days to complete, and since he made most of it out of scrap iron, incorporating an existing cylinder he had around the farm, the boom cost him only about $200.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Randy Svendsen, 30271 û 445 Ave., Volin, S. Dak. 57072 (ph 605 263-3810).
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