Re-using grain bins

In Illinois????? Should be about 100 within driving distance, worth $300 or less, you take down. Most are getting folded up & smashed with a backhoe, sold for $20-50 a ton scrap metal. Few rusty panels and too small and in the wrong place these days.....

To dismantal that size, you hook 3 'bin jacks' (triangle supports with a crank cable winch) on them, lift a little, use a electric gun to spin the bolts off, and take the panels off the bottom. Lower it, and repeat. Can rent the bin jacks from grain coops here & there for a few bucks a day.

Nice job on reusing them to Tom, with the peak deal, great pics.

--->Paul

We actually just took it down from the top and dropped the panels. I would not like to do it with any bigger ones, but we only bent a couple of corners that made no difference. For the roof we just disconnected it, hooked a rope on and pjulled it off. Again bent some peices but no major casualties.

I always try to do everything according to the KISS line of thought.

And anywhere in farm country they are available. The steel for recycling is only worth about 50 bucks, so if you can salvage something and avoid the costs many landowners would let you I think.

If you are goign to do a project like mine though, seriously just take the roof off and apart and then cut in either half or thirds. You will easily take 80% of the labor out of the project as long as you can figure how to stack and move the pieces. (WIth a flatbed or something it should not be too hard.)

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I always keep a eye open for used bins,(and better yet cribs) but its really rare to see one around here cheep.

Gonna use mine for catfish tanks.

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