July Equipment Highlight

Our equipment highlight continues with grain handling and storage. Today we have a little history. Long before modern auger and grain systems were in place grain still have to be moved and stored. A granary was used for storage. If they were storing corn they were simple called a corn crib.

The cob was harvested and moved up a simple conveyor in to wagon.



The angled conveyors can be seen here. There were, of course, driven off power from the tractor. Much earlier machines were horse driven.

Unlike today where corn is stored as a kernel, a corn crib stored the entire cob with kernels attached (threshing was done at a later date.



A corn crib



A simple granary.


Scoop shovels (some called grain shovels) were used to move the "ear" of corn or kernels (post threshing) within the corn crib or granary.


Gravity wagons were used to transport the grain when in the kernel mode.

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The AGTV Network will continue its Equipment Highlight on grain handling and storage come Thursday.