STLfirewood
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Here are some pictures of my conveyor. How would you guys go about converting it to a belt conveyor. The chain keeps breaking.
Scott
Scott
Butch:
How is the traction on the belt when it gets below freezing out, does the wood slide to the bottom?
I mentioned in an older conveyor post about converting my old hay/grain elevator to a belt conveyor. That plan is changing, here's why:
I talked to a dairy farmer friend of mine about it. I knew he had some silage conveyors that ran from the silo to outdoor feed bunks that he no longer uses. He told me I was welcome to them, but that I'd really be better off without them. He said the day he started feeding with a mixer wagon and took them down was one of the happiest days of his life. They never worked worth a dang in wet weather, and cows gotta eat ya know. He said he kept a bucket of sawdust at all times near the drive pulley for when it started slipping, and that in accordance with Murphy's Law, it always broke in the worst possible weather.
I'm gonna take out every other slat (some of that has already been done for me by wear and tear over ?50 years?) and hook a small hyd motor to it to run it. It should stall before anything major breaks.
I'll vote for getting a shear bolt in the system, preferably on the conveyor drive end (not motor end, if I sound confusing), because that's where the torque loads will be highest.
My brother has several Timberwolf Conveyors and he has modified all of them so the edges of the belts are hidden under a 2x6 attached to the sides of the trough. He found that pieces catch along those spots and cause problems so he stuck 2x6s along the sides and now he never has a jam or a break. His main conveyor runs ~10 hrs per day for months on end because it is attached to his processor.
In the picture below of an unmodified Timberwolf you can see where stuff can get along the sides of the belt and he found that is the place the problems always started at. By keeping the wood away from the edges he has zero problems.
I also would like to see a picture using the 2X6's.
He is in NY and I am in MN so I can't get pictures. But he took a 2x6 and just stuck them on the insides of the trough right along where it bends out above the belt. Basically the trough is now narrower than before.
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