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Big Mess After Unloading


Does anyone ever have a big mess after unloading a wagon of ear corn?

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Well Cody that just seems to come with the picking is a mess , if it is not filling the crib it comes from cleaning it out ! Or just turn the goat around it let them clean up!LOL

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That's True. But it really makes a mess when the corn gets hung up in the wagon when you're unloading it and when you open the door to get it to move it all comes at once.

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Yes it does using ashovel or a corn rack helps you control the flow!

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I see alot of you guys use a hoist and dump wagons. No one use gravity wagons out there?

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We use gravity wagons for storing the ear corn. We also have to travel 18 miles with it and our gravity wagons travel better.

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When we started replacing the hoist wagons in the late 1970's, the gravity wagons we bought were too big for use with the ear corn picker so we just kept the flare wagons to use for ear corn. Once you get used to them and how much to raise them up with the hoist, we didn't make too much of a mess when unloading!



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That's what we did when we picked the corn last fall. We put a flarebox behind the picker. After we got done we just switched it all over with my Kewanee 500 elevator.

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I have 1 flarebox wagon but the only way to unload it is with the hickory unloader. Needless to say it is the last wagon that gets loaded.

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I've had to do that before and it really makes things interesting.

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I like using my gravity wagons they work good with my short elevator in the field. I just unload into my spreader trucks it makes trips less and faster.



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i had a metal flatbed wagon that folded up into a gravity bed with just two flat floor sides and an unloading chute in the middle. With the rocking bolster it was the best ear corn wagon i ever used.Alas like many fools i put big sideboards on it and went thru a ditch too fast and it collapsed.One of my biggest regrets. Never seen another wagon like it since after traveling thru 15 states in a semi. boy i wish i had bought another when i had the chance.cry

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