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I have several photos of hoppers being moved at small elevators, usually being pulled by a tractor and a tow rope.  It's not all that uncommon on the Northern Plains.  Once I watched a couple young guys move two hoppers by one guy giving it a small shove with a JD 4000-series, and a second guy riding on the rear hopper.  They didn't realize there was a very slight downhill grade.  It didn't take much for the hoppers to take off like a pair of rabbits, with the kid on the rear frantically screwing down the brake!  Hoppers coasted to a stop in front of a large corn bunker.

 

Another time, out in north central South Dakota long the old MILW highline, I saw a guy in a tractor that was pulling a short string of hoppers.  He had his poor wife up on load-out doing all the work!  She would step out on the hoppers, flip the lids, go back in, and dump the grain down the pipe.  Usually this is done by a crew of three, but it was the opening weekend of pheasant season and nobody else wanted to work.  I felt sorry for her--she wasn't all that young.  Lazy husband just sat on his butt in the tractor.

Kent in SD

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Mitch,

   Yep a very clever invention that happened many many years before this good old boy was ever born.  It was one of the very 1st operations the Power Take Off was ever used for, in fact the engineering was tested with a compressor to make sure it would actually work as designed.  This farmer has done his home work and applied the oldest PTO Engineering usage, to Mr Westinghouses's RR Air Brakes, a well thought out piece of engineering from 2 incredible inventors, both from PA.  I would not call either of these 2 inventors Red Necks, however the farmer's home use may be a little Red Necky and incredibly effective.

PCRR/Dave

   

 

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