He Moves Grain With A Leaf Blower

He Moves Grain With A Leaf Blower GRAIN HANDLING Accessories We ran across a neat way to blow corn into an elevated deer feeder A YouTube video posted by Brian Schroder demonstrated how it worked Although we couldn’t reach Schroder we wanted to share the concept with our readers Schroder used a gas-powered leaf blower connected to pvc pipes A gravity feed injects the corn into the air stream The gravity feed is a 5-gal bucket on 2 by 4-in legs on the outside screwed to matching wood blocks on the inside The curved leg of a pvc Y joint is attached beneath a hole in the bottom of the bucket The straight leg of the joint is attached to the leaf blower tube with a flexible connector A second flexible transparent connector attaches the Y joint to a 45-degree angle joint It’s connected in turn to a pvc pipe long enough to reach the top of the feeder With the leaf blower running Schroder drops corn into the bucket where it passes to the Y joint and then into the air stream and eventually to the feeder The transparent connector lets him check the flow visually At the feeder the pvc pipe ends with a 45-degree and a 90-degree connector dropping the corn into the chamber Schroder noted in a reply to a viewer that the blower could move about 40 lbs of corn per minute When FARM SHOW looked at the video it had more than 60 000 views One viewer planned to use the concept to move grain into an overhead bin instead of buying a conventional conveyor If you come up with a different use or a variation of the system let us know

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