Elephant Trap For Shed Stored Grain

Elephant trap for shed stored grain CROP STORAGE Accessories 11-6-33 An in-ground hopper known as "The Elephant Trap" has solved a lot of grain handling problems for Australian farmer Malcom Hancock, of Warrachie, SA. The hopper, sunk into the corner of a concrete floored machinery shed, slopes down to a small center pit from where an auger lifts grain up and out through the shed wall, then into a truck for transport. During harvest, trucks or wagons bring grain straight in from the combine and drop it in or around the in-ground hopper inside the shed. Thanks to "The Elephant Trap," Hancock doesn't need a grain sweep to pick grain up off the shed floor. He simply pushes it into the in-ground hopper with his tractor loader. (FARM).

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