Garden Tractor Auger Mover

Garden Tractor Auger Mover AUGERS Augers (29B) 29-5-25 A simple, homemade auger hitch extension lets Lyle Ehrman of Leader, Sask. use his 22-hp 445 Deere garden tractor as a handy auger mover. "A lot of people tell me that self-propelled auger movers are one of their best investments, but I think it's hard to justify the expense. This is my alternative solution," he says. "The hitch only took me about four hours to make using scrap metal I already had." Ehrman's garden tractor had a 3-pt. hitch so his auger mover hooks on quickly to move his 8-in. by 45-ft. auger, complete with grain hopper, without having to clean everything out. Ehrman took a flat piece of 6-in. by 7-ft. by 1/2-in. thick metal, and bent it at about a 45 degree angle. A 3-ft. section at one end mounts to the underside of the auger and hopper (parallel to the auger). The end that protrudes up from under the hopper has a hole drilled in the end, which is bent at an angle away from the hopper. The metal tongue is secured to the auger by a metal band that wraps around the auger, and holds the hopper and the piece of metal together. On the tractor, Ehrman made a simple drawbar with a fixed pin that allows him to easily hook onto the auger hitch. "It works really well and saved me a lot of money," he says. "The only downside is that I use this auger only at harvest time because the hopper is bolted on and it's inconvenient to remove it so the auger can be placed in the bin." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup: Lyle Ehrman, Box 81, Leader, Sask., Canada S0N 1H0 (ph 306 628-3663; lyleehrman@sasktel. net).

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