Producers who have trouble keeping their 16-inch auger working at full capacity may want to consider a 22,000-bushel per hour drive-over pit.
That’s the capacity of the new drive-over Double Barrel Pit from Pit Express in Quincy, Illinois.
“It’s designed specifically for the 16 inch auger market,” Pit Express owner Steve Mast said about his company’s new product, which has twin 14-inch discharge tubes.
“We did prototype testing for two years, and we saw there was a huge demand for something like this.”
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The Double Barrel has an eight inch deck height and comes with hydraulic or electric drive. The twin tubes taper into a Y junction so only one large discharge tube feeds the auger.
“We built a custom ordered triple barrel pit for a feedlot out there. It dumps 600 bushels a minute of high moisture corn onto a belt conveyor.
“That was a special order, but it’s no problem building more of them.”
The Double Barrel, which uses off-the-shelf components, sell for $24,000.
For more information, contact Mast at 217-656-3911 or visit www.PitExpress.com.
