Simple Grain Handling System Replaces Elevator Legs

Simple Grain Handling System Replaces Elevator Legs GRAIN HANDLING Miscellaneous 6-2-35 "We've never experienced so much interest in a new product or idea," says Elwood Sawby of Skyland Manufacturing about the company's revolutionary new "Hydra-Shift" swivel auger grain handling system. At the heart of the new system is the Hydra-Shift auger, designed to replace expensive elevator legs or vacuum equipment, and heavy rolling augers that take "too many people too much time to move," according to Sawby. The Skyland system consists of a conventional 8 to 10-in. dia. auger up to 70 ft. long and mounted on a pivoting hydraulic arm. The arm raises and lowers the auger, pivoting on a center support stanchion. The operator stands at the bottom of the auger, activating the arm up or down with auger-mounted controls, lifting just 40 lbs. of balanced weight to move the auger from bin to bin. With a 53-ft. auger you can fill and empty ten 14-ft. high bins in a semi-circle. A 60-ft. auger will fill and empty nine 19-ft. semi-circled bins. If your bins are already in a straight line, a 60-ft. Hydra-Shift mounted auger will reach six 14-ft. tall bins. "It takes just 90 seconds to move the auger from bin to bin and anyone who can lift 25 lbs. of weight can move it alone. You don't have to stop combining, or other activities, during harvest to move the auger," says Sawby. By fitting Skyland's hopper bottoms, which have also just been introduced, to nine semi-circled 40,000 bu. bins, and connecting them with the pivoting auger arm, Skyland can construct a complete 150,000 bu. storage system for about half the cost of a comparable elevator system, says Sawby. Also, by installing a second pivot near a second set of bins, you can move the Hydra-Shift auger and arm with a tractor loader and fill or empty the second set of bins, too. According to Sawby, Skyland's engineers have completely "mapped out" the new grain handling system on paper and have a scale model to tote around to shows. The first complete on-farm installation is slated to be constructed within the next two months on the farm of Ken Sawby, Elwood's brother and inventor of the Skyland grain-handling system. A 53-ft. auger, 8 in.. in dia. and mounted on the Hydra-Shift arm, sells for around $9,300. For more information, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Skyland Manufacturing Equipment, Ltd., Maple Creek, Sask. (ph 306 667-2653) or Skyland Manufacturing, Airdrie, Alb., Canada TOM OBO (ph 403 948-7810).

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