The Rural Voice, 1983-08, Page 32FARM ADVICE
Corn crib unloader
Anyone interested in lowering the cost
of drying corn should go and have a chat
with John Wammes on the 6th of Hullett
in Huron county. In 1967 John built a sixty
foot corn crib, and then in 1981 added
another forty feet. At this time he installed
a Spedquip floor elevator the full length of
the crib which allows him to offload the
crib without a shovel. This is the second
year the corn crib unloader has been used
and the Wammes are very pleased with its
performance.
The corn crib is 100 feet long but only
61/2 feet wide with a 12" trough running
down the middle where the Spedquip
unloader has been installed. The braces,
which are made of rough lumber, allows
air to flow through the corn giving better
aeration. Wammes built the crib to run
north and south to allow the prevailing
westerly winds to blow through the corn.
In the fall it takes about 21/2 days to fill the
crib with 80 tons of corn using a 2 -row
corn picker.
Because the crib is built on a cement
base, there is very little loss to rodents.
And the air flow is sufficient to prevent
any spoilage of the corn.
By July the corn was very dry, so on July
13th the Wammes held an open house to
allow Everett Mellin and Paul Brophy, its
performance to local farmers. Everything
worked like a charm. The pto on a small
tractor ran the chain for the floor elevator
(Mellin says a garden cultivator could run
it) and a steady stream of cobs
automatically moved into the combine
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which soon filled a wagon with beautifully
dry, yellow kernels. The husked cobs
spewed out the back of the combine and
dropped onto the corn elevator which car-
ried them up into the pile. The cobs are
later burned in the workshop woodstove,
although Catherine Wammes says they
make an excellent fire for a barbeque.
The farmers at the demonstration
agreed that the money saved by drying 80
tons of corn naturally, would pay for the
crib in one or two years. But the big advan-
tage is knowing that the corn which you
have so carefully selected and grown and
harvested is the corn you will be using to
feed your animals.
For further information contact Everett
Mellin, Speedquip Industries Ltd.,
Dashwood 519-294.6757.
Mobile seed cleaner
A Canadian company recently introduced a mobile seed clean-
ing unit.
The President of Canadian Mobile Seed Cleaning Ltd., James
A. Grieve. stated that the unit provided farmers with a "more effi-
cient. cost-effective means of cleaning seed and grain."
Each mobile unit is equipped to provide complete grain handl-
ing and cleaning to the farmer's specifications right on the farm.
Grain can be drawn from storage, conveyed, weighed, cleaned
chemically treated. and bagged all on the single unit. The service
is used both to clean seed for planting, and to prepare milling
oats for shipment to Quaker Oats.
For further information about the licensing program for mobile
seed cleaning services, write or call Canadian Mobile Seed Clean-
ing Limited, P.O. BOX 309, Kleinburg, Ontario, LOJ 1CO. The
telephone number is (416) 775 -6994." -
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Brussels Phone 519-887-6477
PG. 30 THE RURAL VOICE, AUGUST 1983