Truck-Mounted Gravity Box Hauls Bulk Soybean Seed At Highway Speeds

Truck-Mounted Gravity Box Hauls Bulk Soybean Seed At Highway Speeds TRUCKS Conversions 25-1-33 "It's nothing fancy but it works great to haul bulk soybean seed at highway speeds," says Rick Reed, Zearing, Iowa, who mounted a 250-bu. gravity box off a wagon running gear on his truck frame. A hydraulic-powered auger is used to deliver bean seed into his grain drill. Reed started with a 1983 GM 6500 2-ton, single axle truck that he already had been using to haul livestock. He removed the livestock box and bolted a Schultz gravity box onto the frame in its place. He bolted the auger mounting brackets onto the box. An orbit motor mounts on top of the auger and plugs into the remote hydraulic outlets of the tractor that Reed uses to pull his grain drill. "I use it every spring to fill our grain drill with bulk soybean seed. I drive the truck to my seed dealer about five miles away, who dumps 50-bu. bulk containers into the gravity box. To unload, I use a control valve on the auger to regulate auger speed. "My total cost was less than $1,000. Comparable pull-type capacity commercial seed tenders sell for up to $4,000 and can't go at highway speeds. "A length of truck frame extends behind the box. I just never bothered to cut it off. Someday I might mount a cargo platform on it." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Rick Reed, 71941 120th St., Zearing, Iowa 50278 (ph 641 487-7869).

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