New Equipment Fills Larger Silos
NEW HOLLAND - Blower fan
tip speed is the key to filling tall,
wide silos. It’s especially critical
for haylage because lighter weight
and gumminess make it harder to
blow than corn or sorghum silage.
“We have the machines for the
job,” says Howard Wmey of New
Top speeds of over 100 mph may be needed to fill tall and
larger diameter silos.
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Holland. “Our 1000-r.p.m. Model 40
blower has a tip speed of over 113
miles an hour. It’s this kind of
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haylage can be a problem for the
80-feet-and-over towers with the
smaller blowers.”
“Our blowers can handle up to
150 tons of freshly chopped corn
forage or 80 tons of haylage per
hour,” adds Winey. “Few silage
makers actually need that much
capacity. But it’s nice to have
because it allows quick turnaround
time at the silo so the harvester
never needs to wait for the next
forage box.”
There can even be a problem
with a new high capacity blower
where an older, smaller capacity
blower got by. The problem shows
up when the center-fill gooseneck
doesn’t have enough capacity to
handle the extra matenal being
pushed in by the new blower.
A 9-inch gooseneck is scarcely
capable of handling the volume of
a large blower. In effect, the
gooseneck becomes the “bot
tleneck.” The newer 12-inch
goosenecks have much more
capacity.
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why. And a quick check may solve
the problem, according to Winey,
who suggests the following check
list:
1. Check blower adjustments and
tractor PTO speed.
2. Drop the adjustable baffle on
the Whirl-A-Feed table down. Now
go to the top of silo.
3. Is the air escape hole open?
Make sure.
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4. Is the gooseneck secured with
supports on the bottom side on
which material can bridge and
then plug? This is important.
If these steps don’t fully solve the
plugging problem, it may be time
to update the gooseneck from the
standard.9-inch size to the new 12-
inch sizes now available from
several silo pipe and accessories
manufacturers.
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