Giant Portable Bin A “Best Buy”

Giant Portable Bin A “Best Buy” CROP STORAGE Grain Storage Bern Prewitt Jr Boyle Miss : “We often have problems with elevator lines being terrible and semis having to wait for unloading so using the 4 000-bu capacity Walkabout Mother Bin helps keep our three combines rolling in corn soybeans and rice We park it in a permanent spot on the edge of a field and our carts dump into it rather than into semis The 22-in unloading auger on the bin fills a semi in 3 1/2 mins from the time the tarp unrolls until it rolls back and the driver heads out There’s a scale on the bin so we know exactly how much is loaded We run the bin with a Case 310 Magnum because it takes a good-sized tractor to move it around The bin helps us get our crops in when conditions are right so we don’t have downtime with combines waiting in the field ” Keegan Jones Pendleton Ore : “I’d been tracking the Walkabout bins in Australia for a while and got a flyer in the mail during harvest We needed something that would keep us moving and Walkabout was the answer We’re 45 miles to the nearest terminal and during harvest with two combines we can always overrun our trucks so the Walkabout Bin has really helped us Some days we were sitting from 1 to more than 3 hrs at a time and that’s just not the case anymore The cost of the bin is about half that of a combine but using it is really like adding another combine because now our machines never sit and wait Another benefit is that we can fill the bin at the end of a day when a field is done and move the machines to another field even if the terminal is closed I use the bin for handling grain and feed blending during the off-season so the bin is working year around The bin is made well and with the 22-in unloading auger it can fill a semi in about 3 min It qualifies for a farm storage loan so that means low interest to buy it ”

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