Posted by JD Seller on February 25, 2014 at 05:38:08 from (208.126.196.144):
The middle son is on a five day vacation to AZ. So I am doing his chores. Yesterday the silo unloader quit working. It is an older Van Dale one.
He just opened the silo last week. He used up all the corn silage he had in bags. Usually we switch to the up right silos about now. The cold weather is usually about over and the ground around the bags gets muddy in the spring. As you all know this year the cold is still here.
So I have to climb the silo to check it out. the unloader is in the 38th door on a 40 door silo, just about the top. LOL
Get up there and find the gear box on the unloader busted. I do mean busted. The case had a split in it, oil everywhere. We just completely overhauled it two years ago. The parts where just at a $1000. Shortly after that I was at an auction and there was a Van Dale unloader on the sale bill. I bought the complete unloader for $100.
I took the unloader completely apart and rebuilt the gear case for a spare as we have three Van Dale unloaders that are all the same.
So I get the electric winch out and drag the cable up the silo and hook up a snatch block. Back down the silo to hook the "good" gear case to the winch. The winch does have a remote so you can operate it as you follow the cable up. Get the gear box up the silo. Take the old one off. Find out the auger drive shafts are different. It seems that there was a serial number break that my parts book did not show. So I had to take both gear boxes back down the silo.
Get them into the shop and make one good one out of the two. Take the combined gear box back up the silo. Get it installed and run it while I am up there all seems well. Get all the tools an winch back off/out of the silo. I go back up with a pitch fork and throw the silage that is oil covered out of the silo. I did not want to waste a whole foot across the entire silo. Get everything set back up down at the bottom. Start the unloader running. All is well for about half the feeding. Then the unloader quits throwing silage. Go back up and the blower belt had come off. Burnt it some too. Back down the silo to get a new belt for it. Back up the silo and get the blower unplugged and the new belt on. Finally at about 6 PM had it working correctly.
It took me all day and I don't know how many trips up and down the silo. My other son helped me some but he had his own chores to do too.
I can feel every trip up and down the silo this morning. I feel like I did a few rounds with George Foreman and not on his grill. LAMO
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