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Warming Shack Makes Bin-Watching Easier
"We built it to keep my wife and mother warm while they mind our bin site during harvest," says Steve Logemann about the "bin shack" he and his father Wallace built a couple of years ago out of lumber and camper parts. It mounts on the 3-pt. of the Logemann's Deere 4450.
The Ledyard, Iowa, farmer welded two 6-ft. long pieces of heavy channel iron to the bottom of the Cat. II hitch, which mounts permanently on the side of the shack. He then bolted 6-ft. long 4 by 4's across the channel irons and covered them with 2 by 12's for flooring. Two by 4's were used to frame walls which are made of camper window cutouts from the Winnebago company in nearby Forest City.
A house screen door, along with shingled plywood roof, completed the shack. At 5-ft. by 6-ft. by 7 1/2-ft. high, the shack accommodates two adults comfortably. It even has room inside for a small desk and an electric space heater, Logemann notes.
Before harvest, the shack is pulled to the bin site and set onto a concrete pad that once held a grain dryer.
Out-of-pocket expense was less than $100.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Steve Logemann, 4501 140th Ave., Ledyard, Iowa 50556 (ph 515 646-3521).


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1996 - Volume #20, Issue #6