Dave he is a little too high but the bins do look in good condition.
The Golden grain bin that Tom is talking about are some of the cheapest bins made. I do mean CHEAP!!!! Local fellow had three thirty foot Golden Grain bins. HE setup a batch dryer. HE was dumping corn into the Golden grain bins and cooling in them. The one started to buckle right above the air floor. He called the company and they told him the bins were not made to cool grain in. No warranty on bins under a year old. HE had to jack the buckled bin up and install steel stiffeners on the outside of all three of them. After he did that he had more in them than the Brock bins he passed up because of price.
Here is how I look at equipment, and bins are equipment. I will pay a premium for GOOD clean equipment. You can not make a silk purse out of a sows ear. Of all the equipment I have handled over the years I never have had an issue with higher priced CLEAN stuff. So you need to balance the cost against quality. That is in the eye of the beholder. You have been buying the "value" type stuff and doing lots of repairs on it to get it to work. You can do that with bins too. Do you want to put that time an effort into moving and installing your bins??? Only you can answer that.
Also I think this fellow is close to you??? IF that is the case you can easily eat up $500-1000 traveling/hauling bins further away. Compared to new he is not out of line. Compared to the NATIONAL used small bin price he is a little high. I will tell you that the 3000-5000 bushel bins have quit being cheap around here. Guys are setting them on funnel bottoms and using them for holding bins and such.
Truthfully your worrying about $1000-1500 in POSSIBLE saving IF you can find CHEAPER bins in the same condition. These bins are the size that will work for you. They both have air floors. There setup for 8 inch unloading. So they have the features your looking for but at a higher price than the bargain basement stuff. I know what I would do but I am not the one writing the check in this case.
As I have gotten older the joy of buying cheap and spending lots of time/effort to make it good has been replaced by just giving a little more for good to start with. I just do not have the time/ambition/labor to do the type of stuff I used too. I think your labor situation is different now with the daughter at college. Keep that in mind too.
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