Tag-Along Grain Cart Dumps Out The Side

Tag- Along Grain Cart Dumps Out The Side GRAIN HANDLING Wagons (63E) 19-1-4 When you farm on ridges, you want to keep travel through the field to a minimum. That's why Illinois farmer Tom Belton put together this tag-along cart to pull behind his Deere 8820 combine. The cart gives Belton the capacity he needs to always get to the ends of the field. He knew he had to have a wagon with wheels that would match his ridged rows and he wanted one that would hold even more of a load than his combine yet would dump it quicker. He found what he needed in a wagon with a hydraulically-dumped hopper that lifts and pours its cargo out to the side. Belton's combine carries 200 bu. and the tag-along dump cart holds an additional 300 bu. Both the combine and wagon can dump into a truck at the same time by pulling the combine to a 90? angle to the hauling truck. The auger that fills the tag-along wagon is hydraulically driven with a pair of hydraulic motors on two separate sections of auger. It also folds hydraulically. It's sup-ported by a pair of uprights at the back of the machine. When not in use, it's kept folded back over the combine. Hookup of the wagon, which was originally designed to haul chopped forage, takes only about 15 min. The combine has rear-wheel assist to help pull the extra load. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Tom Belton, 8787 E. 850 N. Road, Indianola, Ill. 61850 (ph 217 733-2396).

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