Corn bags
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Topic: Corn bags
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Subject: Corn bags
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2018 at 12:55pm
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My brother drives a semi for a BTO in the area. They use large silage bags to store corn in on the edge of a field alongside the road. My bro claims the bags fill easy and fast. They keep the corn dry and protected. Emptying them can be a pain if they dont prep the ground first. They use rollers to flatten area first . Trash under can stick to the bags and foul things up. One time use on the bag but supplying company recycles the bags. Pennies per bushel is what they claim . My brother likes it as it keeps him from being laid off. They will be Emptying them all winter . Was wondering if anyone on here uses them and their thoughts. Main problem they have had is vandals with razor blades can cause quite a bit of damage . ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2018 at 2:05pm
| All of the BTOs in my area use them, for wheat, sunflowers, and corn. Makes harvest go fast for them. They fill the bags right in the field with the grain carts, and don't even use the semis. There is an extractor for emptying them, and most guys have gotten all of the kinks worked out of using them, that emptying the bags later on is a breeze also. Darrel |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2018 at 3:14pm
| How big are these. I’ve seen some in my younger days that we’re the size of very large grain bins. Several thousand bushel. I saw them at elevators during wheat and corn harvest. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2018 at 8:16pm
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13 feet in diameter I believe, most I see look to be about 100 yards long.I will get a picture and post ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2018 at 8:26pm
| Have seen those in use NW MO. |
Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2018 at 8:55pm
| A local coop has a grass field laying full of bags filled with soybeans. Semis hauling beans in and they had 3 tractors with carts taking them from the elevator out to the bags. Wisconsin winters and springs can be a challenge like anywhere in the midwest, it will be interesting to see how they do emptying them. They do already have towers for 2 outside corn piles so maybe they are ready to deal with the bean bags. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2018 at 9:03pm
| I saw several on the trip to Kansas. Sitting right along the road next to the drive way. |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 8:46am
 I was wondering what the heck was in those big sausages. Now for the dumb question. What is a BTO?
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 8:49am
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Big Time Operator Driving by on a fast horse, a line wrap of round bales can look like a grain bag too!
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Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 8:51am
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Big Time Orfice. (operator) ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 9:10am
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I thought they were for silage! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: farmboy520
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 11:25am
| They can be for silage also |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 11:38am
| They are all the rage all over Illinois this year. Truck driver at my elevator said $1500 per bag. Elevators and farmers have them everywhere. Be interesting to see how the pick up operation goes. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:47pm
| I see one of my neighbors that's a dairy farmer using one for corn he also has some full of silage. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 1:02pm
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Do they use some kind of vacuum system to get the grain out? I wonder about rodents and bigger animals getting in and allowing spoilage. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: farmboy520
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 3:48pm
| Pat, which BTO does your brother work for? |
Posted By: Wayne180d
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 6:34pm
| We continuously wrapped 80 bales of corn stalks for bedding for our beef cows this year. Saves a lot of time and space for us. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 9:07pm
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Schlight farms is who he works for . John Co. A device with an auger is hooked to the back of a tractor. It backs up into the bag and augers out the grain while splitting and rolling up the bag. He claims prepping the site is crucial for efficient emptying of the bags. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Brad in WA
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2018 at 5:29am
| I have used bags to store grass and corn silage for 34 years now. We put them either on concrete or packed gravel. Makes great feed. Use an AC 840 wheel loader to scoop them out. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2018 at 7:13am
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The ethanol plant over at Richardton has probably had up to 100 +/- bags full of corn on there grounds at different times over the last couple of years. They hire a local farmer who is also a dealer for grain baggers/extractors/bags to fill them. He sets up a drive over pit like thing for the semis to dump into a swing auger hopper without having to swing the hopper each time. This is a 16 inch auger. Auger fills his grain carts (two of them going), and the grain cart runs the load out to the bagger. The bags hold 33,000 bushels each. This guy doing this gig also does the extracting and hauling it into the plant later on. He has one of the ford new Holland bi-directional tractors on the extractor, so the operator of that tractor can look forward while extracting. The extractor will fill a semi in under 10 minutes. As the extractor is working, it rolls the bag onto a roller. When the bag is empty, it gets un-rolled off the roller, which is just basically driving while the bag un-rolls onto the ground, then they come along with machine on the front of a skid steer that rolls the used bag up into a tight package about 4 feet wide and 4 feet in diameter. I got one of these used bags from the guy to cover my silage pile with last year. Un-rolled and laid out flat, it is about 40 feet wide and 300 feet long. Pretty heavy plastic, too. Seldom that it has a hole in it. I see that the united grain terminal (wheat elevator) about 60 miles south of me, was bagging grain also this past summer. I am sure they had at least 100 bags on site also. Darrel |
Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2018 at 8:06pm
| I can see these for some temporary excess storage but I would think on a regular basis a structure of some type with unloading in it would pay for itself. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2018 at 7:21am
I would agree. Lots to consider though: flexibility, property taxes, capital depreciation versus annual expense....
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DanWi wrote:Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2018 at 2:10pm
| Don't seem like it would be a good long term storage, wouldn't it sweat from the freezin and sun light |