Poured pillars today to set a Cowin Cornsaver crib on. Hope to have crib set on pillars Friday morning. Don't know much about the manufacturer other than they were built in Minneapolis, MN. Find it hard to believe they were not more common on account of their sloped bottom making them easy to empty. Attached is the first photo
I always wanted one of those cribs but could never find one in my area in decent shape. And you figured out a way to "end-transport" it too - I figured a person could make something like you got there to move the whole crib as one unit. Are you going to pour a pad between the pillars to make setting up the sheller drag (and cleanup) easier? Hope it all works well for you when it is finished!
My plan is to mount a Kewanee 500 elevator directly underneath to minimize the mess of emptying and with it's setup location I will only be able pull corn from one direction. As far as moving it goes... having a father with access to a crane and good with a welder to make hitch and chassis made it real easy to get home to southeast SD from Lake Wilson, MN. Hoping to have set on pillars Friday morning and will post pictures of that as well.
So you're saying you "stole" the only good one left in SW Minnesota anywhere close to me? (just kidding!)
I'm just west of Luverne so Lake Wilson isn't that far away from me. You may have even been close to me when you pulled it home. So did you pull it down the road with a pickup or a tractor?
How long is that crib? How much is it supposed to hold? Looking forward to seeing pics of it when you get it all finished!
I'm 35 mi. SW of Sioux Falls and yes pulled it home with a pickup 55 mph with no trouble. It's one of the longer ones we've run across measuring 54 ft. long x 8ft. wide. have not measured how tall it is yet. My dad and I collect stationary gas engines and wooden spring shellers and demonstrate them at a couple shows where we shell out of 36 ft. long versions of these cribs and been told they hold around 850 bushel. If my math is right going by the number of sections this one should hold around 1250 bushel but going to get all measurements taken and figured to be certain. Maybe you have seen it but there is one of these cribs just north of the I-90 exit on highway 23 in your neck of the woods first place on west side.
Yeah, I looked at that one many years ago and it was in tough shape back then - too much torn & rusted sheet metal.
Back in the 80's there was a company in Dassel or Cokato MN that sold a newer version of this crib with or without a roof - ever seen one of those? I have a brochure around here somewhere for it - if I find it I'll scan it and post it here.
No I have never seen any of those...but then I don't know much about Cowin cribs other than they were built in Minneapolis. Just don't understand why they didn't catch on due to the ease of emptying...however it looks like quite of elevator moving to fill one. Would certainly like to see the brochure that you have. Should you find one to your liking you can sure come take a look at the chassis dad built to move this one. Of course I found 2 of them much closer to home after I got this one here home one was pretty good shape but missing the roof pieces and the guy who had that one had a cousin across the section with one that appeared to be in good shape but never got close to it .
I went and looked for that brochure this morning and found a few others as well so I scanned them all, seeing as there is interest in different cribs on this forum lately. Enjoy!
-- Edited by jdtom on Friday 4th of October 2013 09:32:11 AM
Very neat brochures that you have there. Will be posting a picture of my Cowin crib that we got set on the pillars today under thread name Cowin crib set up Part 2.
