Consolidated Kansas

[tntblake]

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I would like to try it too but I'm in the same boat as you.

 

[Ivywoods]

I may have jumped off the deep end today. I went to a farm machinery auction and I bought a grain hopper. I want to get my feed mixed by a nearby feed mill, and they have a 1000 lb. minimum. It will be quite a bit cheeper in the long run, and I think better for them to get a mash rather than the crumbles they sell in the feed stores.

Next week I will have to see what is available for my mix and figure out just what I wan to use. In the meantime hubby and I will get the grain hopper home and do what little repairs it needs to have done.

 

[Katy]

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Do you mean a grain bin?

 

[Ivywoods]

I've always heard them called a "grain hopper." It is like a square bin bolted to a trailer so it can be towed to the feed mill and filled. It has a slide-up gate at the bottom so the feed can be dispensed into a bucket or other container. I don't know how much the one I bought will hold. It is bigger than I need. I'm sure it would hold a couple ton at least.

I've always called the stationary ones "bins."

With a sacking fee of .75 cents per sack, I think it will help pay for itself fairly soon. My hubby can use it to haul grain for his animals, too. We can dispense the fed into another container and fill it up with a different kind of food so it will get twice as much use.

 

[Katy]

We call a hopper the metal trough that we use under the end of an auger when we're loading or unloading grain. The others are just called grain or feed bins. We use the ones up on legs or trailers for storing seed wheat.

 

[Ivywoods]

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Similar.... semantics, I guess. Your "hopper" is like a funnel that directs the grain to the mouth of the auger. My "hopper" is a funnel-like grain bin, if you want to call it that. Everyone at the auction called them hoppers. They had about 4 or 5 of them for sale today.

 

[Katy]

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Similar.... semantics, I guess. Your "hopper" is like a funnel that directs the grain to the mouth of the auger. My "hopper" is a funnel-like grain bin, if you want to call it that. Everyone at the auction called them hoppers. They had about 4 or 5 of them for sale today.

It's always funny how different regions call things different names.....even when they're not very far from each other. The ones on legs and the one on a trailor that we use here we still call bins, but denote which one we're talking about by saying they've got hopper bottoms. If you told me to go get a hopper you'd probably look at me like I'd lost my mind when I came back with what we call a hopper.

 

[Ivywoods]

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We may both be wrong. The company calls them a gravity box wagon. LOL! We still call it a hopper wagon.

 

[Ivywoods]

Speaking of regional differences, when I met my husband he had no idea what a boomer was.

I had no idea what a load binder was.

same thing.

 

[Katy]

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We would call that a gravity grain cart! We have similar one but it has an auger to unload the grain.