Best way to remove old grain bins
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Topic: Best way to remove old grain bins
Posted By: modirt
Subject: Best way to remove old grain bins
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2020 at 9:00am
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Have two of them at the farm. One is 3,000 bus, 60 years old....floor rotted out. Other is newer (50 years old), 5000 bushel drying bin with all the equipment. Neither has been used in 10 years and likely never will be. Do they have value beyond scrap metal price? Hire Amish to pull them down, or ??????
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Posted By: Adam Stratton
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2020 at 9:07am
| What part of MO are you in? I'm in the SW part of the state and know some people looking for useable smaller bins. Also have a neighbor that takes them down and resells to the people who want backyard grain-zebos or whatever else they build with them. I can put you in touch with either set... |
Posted By: modirt
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2020 at 12:26pm
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I have not led an entirely sheltered life, and had heard of some things that had been done with old grain bins, but not the gazebos. That might actually be a perfect fit for the old bin......that currently has 3 RV's parked next to it, tethered to the same outlets that had been used for the fan motors. Anyway, bins are located about 30 miles north of Marshall in north central part of the state. Will keep this in mind if we decide we want them gone. Good to know there is somebody looking for them.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2020 at 12:35pm
| yep...they use them for gazebos and kids play houses and tool sheds and covers over fire pits and small garages for mowers/atv's/golf carts and if cut in half tall wise and put on skids or short walls they make great hog/livestock huts and other uses, don't destroy them |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2020 at 12:37pm
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WE had thought about moving two rings and top of a 16 ft diameter, up to the wooded area and use as a deer blind / weekend camping cabin. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Kiwi
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2020 at 3:29pm
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HI all we have a old grain bin at our field days site that has been turned into a bar . ------------- Tractors Allis EB,two C,diesel G |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2020 at 3:56pm
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I think KIWI has the PLAN ! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2020 at 4:59pm
| I Concur!! |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2020 at 6:32pm
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Kiwi wrote:Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2020 at 9:58pm
| If they were still good bins get a cone bottom and put them 16 feet in the air next to a grain leg for fast overhead loading of trucks. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2020 at 6:18am
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re: best way to remove.... Sell them and the new buyer has to remove them ! That way you can sit back, enjoy the 'show' as they take them down ! And they're paying YOU to watch !!! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: festus51
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2020 at 9:13pm
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I have taken two 1100 bushel bins down with a sawz all. Start at the top and just zip it into sections ------------- We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the impossible for the Ungrateful |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2020 at 9:45pm
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Insure them for thousands of dollars and order up one of those derechos! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2020 at 10:14pm
| There only valuable after you give them away. Seems like after you get rid of something you find someone wanting it for good money |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2020 at 11:35pm
| i've hauled several on lowboy trailers all in one piece in the upright position. just gotta pick your routes when you haul them. to load them...just blue tooled the bolts off, put 2 skid loaders with forks, one on each side, lifted, backed low boy under them and set them down, tied them down and off we went. hauled 1100 bu, 4000 bu, and a 6000 bu that way. i made several holders that attached to the inside on the bolts already there, cris/crossed chains inside and fastened them down. if you have a small bin, put a jib inside a loader bucket (for reach) and hook a chain onto a pipe that is put down thru a wheel/tire that is bigger than the fill hole on top. bring the wheel up tight inside the fill hole and lift...the roof will support the rest of the bin. can carry it that way or set it on a truck/trailer |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2020 at 11:41am
 I used to take them down with this!------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2020 at 5:14pm
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They don't have any value. Unless your time is free as scrap they aren't worth taking down. The scrappers around here charge to haul them away. I've taken a dozen down and used as garden circles for a few people set a couple up for calf shelters just use 2 rings and roof set them up on skids about 6" off the ground tow them around with the tractor to move. Never have to clean them just two to another spot. It takes 3 guys a couple hours to take one down. I have bin Jack's so it goes pretty fast. If there real old you'll need an 8 point socket always use an impact driver we can usually get 95% of the screws out that way and just angle grinder to cut the rest. I keep getting more bins offered than I can use. |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2020 at 7:00pm
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I saw one a couple months ago that a couple are finishing the interior into a home. If I remember right, he said that it was a 30,000 bu. one. Dusty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2020 at 7:04pm
| Mom had hers taken down by an Amish or Mennonite couple. Dont know which. Dont know what they did with them. Dryer had never been used. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2020 at 9:38pm
| raised veggie beds, kids play houses, the ear corn bins work well for poultry pens or for other animals too. one ring and a plastic liner for livestock waterers (they still sell these to ranchers), temp storage for grain (inside/outside a building), garages, many, many uses, just takes imagination, |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2020 at 7:52am
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I'm thinking sheds to park all of your tractors in. As was previously mentioned. Cut them in half and turn them up on edge. Might also be nice for storing round bales in. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2020 at 9:51am
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And then there comes the wind!!!LOL!! --I know a guy that cut some in half and parked his stuff under them----big storm one night----found the remains 4 miles across the county! lol! ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2020 at 10:08am
Dead man anchors should solve that without to much trouble, or expense.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2020 at 11:27pm
| also make good livestock shelters |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2020 at 10:58am
| if you cut a 3000 bushel bin in half your not parking anything bigger than a lawn mower in it those things are small. you can lift one up and put on a flatbed trailer. I've moved a couple just lift with bin jacks back the Donahue under it strap down and drive away. if you open the door up to 1 sheet wide and lower to 2 ring high they make a great calf shelter |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 10:13am
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Here ya go!  ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: modirt
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2020 at 4:20pm
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Date Posted: 11 Jun 2021 at 5:53pm
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Posted By: Simplysanders
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2021 at 5:02pm
| How big of bins do they take down? I have 3 large Harvestore bins in Rogersville I need to get rid of. In great shape. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2021 at 5:46pm
| Realistically they should be taken down as they were constructed, jack up remove rings lower and remove next set reset jacks repeat. |