Hydraulic gravity wagon auger

[Reid1650]

Have any of yall used one? Looking at one with steel auger going to use it for hauling and unloading seed into the planter. Would this be ok for something like that? Just looking for opinions, thanks!

 

[Sparktrician]

Usually, steel flighting augers are for fertilizer, and brush flighting augers are for seed. The brush dosent damage the seed as badly....not saying it wont work though...just a thought

 

[rustyfarmall]

That is basically what the idea is intended for. You will want some kind of flexible spout on the discharge end of the auger.

 

[Fordfarmer]

As the other poster said, they usually have the brush flightling for seed, especially if you're talking soybean seed... but I used mine (bought for fertilizer) for oats this spring; worked beautifully, and if it damaged any seed, I never knew it.

 

[RayP(MI)]

Used one a couple weeks back. Worked OK for transferring from one gravity box to another. Was slow going, but then it sure beat shoveling, or bucketing. Auger was metal, and rather small compared to the outer tube. May have been why it was so slow. Ran the tracor at just above idle, so as not to build up heat in hydraulic system. My tractor uses a combination of hydraulic/transmission, using the same fluid. There was some warming of the hydraulic motor, and hydarulic lines. Didn't notice any damage to grain (oats).

 

[Bob Bancroft]

I bought a new one a year ago. Plastic tube with SS screw for fertilizer. I just used it for wheat seed and it worked fine.

 

[Leroy]

The reason it was working so slow was you needed more RPM's on it. Faster and it will not let the material fall back past the auger like slower will. And running it at speed it was supposed to run you would have ran the hydrolic system probably 1/4 of the time you did by running slow and not gotten the hydrolic system as hot as you did. Haven't used mine for several years as no longer farming but bought and used for fertilizer and sure was a labor saver. Never used for seed and was steel auger and the only thing different than the 4" portable grain auger other than mounting and hydrolic motor rather than electric it was the same as was used all the time to store beans in fall to get cleaned in spring to plant (NO ROUNDUP READY BEANS). Used the portable auger on corn as well but never on oats or wheat as I never had that to bin and one auger only on wagon it was the fertilizer only, seed a lot lighter to handle.