Flip Empty Seed Boxes Fast

Flip Empty Seed Boxes Fast CROPS Miscellaneous Seed boxes make bulk seed handling easy but once they’re empty they’re a pain to handle Boxes are designed to be flipped over on top of each other to reduce storage and shipping size The trouble is it takes 2 people to flip one “In addition to farming the inventor works for a local co-op ” explains Eldo Schoer Bulk Seed Systems distributor of the Seed Box Flipper “He got tired of flipping boxes but he couldn’t find anyone with an easier way to do it so he built a prototype to do the job ” The BF-1000 slides onto standard forklift forks The heavy-duty framework and arms are fabricated from tubular steel Arms powered by an electric actuator open and close to grip the seed box A high torque electric motor rotates the arms flipping the gripped box over left to right or right to left as needed The entire system runs off a 12-volt battery mounted on the BF-1000 base When in use a corded control module with toggle switches for open/close and left/right is temporarily clamped to a ROPS post on the forklift “The gripping arms and the arm frame are designed to fit into slots on the sides of the box for a solid grip ” says Schoer Schoer says Plaetz worked out a system when flipping large numbers of boxes “He would line them up flip one over another and as the box came down and into place slide the stacked boxes to one side and move ahead to the next “Most buyers are seed dealers but we’ve sold some to seed companies and also to farmers ” says Schoer “One farmer only flips about 25 seed boxes a year but he felt it was worth it to have a Seed Box Flipper ” The BF-1000 is priced at $3 995 plus shipping Check out a video of it in action at www farmshow com Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Bulk Seed Systems 20561 Justice Ave Wabasso Minn 56293 ph 507 342-2222; sales@bulkseedsystems com; www bulkseedsystems com

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