Unloaders can be so much fun. One of my silo's does not have a roof , and one time I was just about ready to break it down and throw it over the top. I'm quite sure those of you who know , know exactly!!

Man never a dull moment for you Andy!! You live the least boring life of anyone on You tube!!😂😂😂 Thank you for sharing!!

And you were thinking you were running out of viable content! Never happen Andy! Love your videos!

Thanks for the front row seat at Farming Fixing and Fabricating, we don't get nearly as dirty as you do.

Chris Duffy will be using this as a training video in the near future

Many thanks to Nate, I've been hoping for some good silo help for Andy. We know Andy needs all the help he can get??!! I'm still waiting for him to take a header on the Himi e-bike.😂😂

Good video Andy, brings back memories of Dad’s silo unloader, only good thing it wasn’t. -20F .

You know you dont have to many problems with the unloader because you had to call for parts. Great video Andy

Nate is a Good guy to have around!!!!!!

Great video Andy as always. Have a GREAT and BLESSED weekend.

Whether he uses one hand to hit the switch or pick up a tractor..... he's the man with the magic touch

Thanks for the videos Andy. I enjoy seeing your hard working family. Stay safe friend.

I request a wheelie to complete the end of every video 😄😄 great job as always 👍 Evel Knievel would be so proud. 😃😃

Looks like the silo is almost full!

Great Vid Andy. In 75 I worked for a Innovative Company that used slip rings ro transfer 60,000 volts DC to a rotating assembly(actually 120 k total). It was oil filled. Very reliable and efficient. But when it arced you knew it! Dirt and contamination is a showstopper(or money maker for the repair company). Ge Healthcare adopted the slip ring design for the preliminary Cat Scanners.

Pretty kool to see how the in sides of the guts of the unloader work

Hi Andy ! the silo job , it is a dusty one good job ! First cut is done for you , fishing season just started for me cheers Andy ! Thanks Andy for your time and have a good day !

Hey, look at the bright side Andy. This coulda been in the bottom of a Harvestore... G ln ad it got resolved without too much hassle. Seein the elec bike, thought you might've shown us another but better wheelie... 🤔 Enjoy the rain. It's been raining here (SC) since last Saturday. Supposed to clear off mid Friday. Thanks for sharing. 🇺🇸👍🇺🇸

Thats a great operation you got there Andy

No doubt in my mind you were going to take it apart. Thanks Andy

It's always good to keep new brushes in it , you will keep less chance of a spark and working better. Really placing brushes is probably a least cost repair that you could ever do to maintain your equipment in a motor. Turning the armature and at the same time of putting new brushes in is a good idea when you're changing brushes. Keep those motors clean always. Sometimes we don't do maintenance until its broken, but on silos I would spend time every time to keep the motors clean and my electrical materials in good condition, I have seen too many fires in silos over the years, mainly caused by poor maintenance.

Impressive repair Andy. Cant say anything better. Have a great day.

Andy you should know by now that any device that moves needs maintenance. Thus another item on the list for annual checking in spring.

Good video going to call you sparky the electrician good job in finding the missing bolts that caused the bushes an housing to move 👍🚜

Seems like a good maintenance policy would be to spray contact cleaner and inspection Keep up the good work! JIM ❤

Glad you have it working andy enjoyed the video thanks.

We went through something similar with that ring and brushes on our bin stirirater. It would run for a little bit then quit. We finally figured out it was the brushes in it.

Whe do alot of fixing and fabrication for local farms along with custom hauling dairy manure. But a neighbor has an old laidig bottom unloader that unloads his high moisture corn and it never fails a few months after the silo is filled something major breaks and we have to do vary dangerous things to fix it.

Thank you Andy 👍👍🍻

Great repair. Keeping it all clean all the time helps

Boy I sure don't miss fixing silo unloaders. Seemed like they only wanted to brake at night on the weekends

Hi Andy from Aberdeenshire Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 really enjoyed video

Good thing you had the Nate man.

Always appreciate you spending the time in your already very busy day to film and explain these interesting topics!

We ran Vandale silo unloaders, had a badger but threw that 1 away because it was junk.

Another good one Andy KEEP THEM COMING 🐄 🚜 🇺🇲 🌽 🐘 👍

Some how when you picked up the fuel trailer and that trailer was in your colors. It was coming home with you!

Thanks for the video of repairing the unloader it was really interesting 👍

I think you did the right thing by replacing everything. No fun hauling tools up and down with a rope.

One day way back 2 of us had to drop a 7 and half horse motor down about 40 feet off a 60 foot silo it was a norling silo. I think the brushes were bad. I think it was about 130 lbs. So that was fun

Great video as always

Good job guys

I would guess that those disc are phosphor bronze along with the contractors. You can use De-Oxit on them and they will clean up very nice.

I don't know how many times I did maintenance when I was running silo unloaders when we emptied the silo then right after we filled them the unloaders would not work.

Thanks for sharing

Another great video as usual 👍 No matter what it is you can fix it Andy .👏👏

Nice job saved yourselves plenty of money.

Try using some tweco 8zl electrial compound grease for current collector. Not cheap but works good. Use it on our robot postioners for the ground side when welding.

why fart and waste it, when your can burp and taste it...great video

I remember having to work on these but I would like to see more on your dairy side of the farm how ya milk, calfs I seen calf hutches how many head ya milk etc and by the way I really like your operation

Ènjoyed the video 😊

If it has 3 rings, you can use the middle and bottom ring. Ditch the top scorched ring. I see they realized a saving by not supplying 3 brushes only two on the new brush assembly. Sorry for the critique.

I have learned to hate our silo’s mind you there 30years old…we have went fro 7 to 4 now slowly switching to bunks

Great video Andy thank you. Still no Tim🤷

That's funny because at the end of the last video, I watched that part twice because it shut off kind of right when you were talking and I thought at first it was getting bogged down and then when it stopped, I figured the same thing it just got turned off

Just think about the big collector rings in a rotary parlor😂😂

When I was younger I work with my grandfather installing patz equipment we went to service a new unit for electrical issues my grandfather clicked that damn breaker on and off all 70 ft it really was a shocking event

The top slip ring appears to be shielded by the metal case making it about half the size of the other two slip rings. Any chance to move the case up to expose more of it. The bad spots appear to be caused by less contact to the slip ring meaning more current is drawn to the limited size. Best bet is to move the top slipring wiring to the middle slipring and move the brush to the middle position. This gives the most contact to the contactor.

Hi like your utube was wondering who's the boss on your farm

think every one has a silo have nightmare stories of them lol

Interesting. I would have thought that that equipment would would have explosion proof electricals. No brushes.

Does this make you want to build another bunk?

Not sure which ones are worse the cement silos or the harvestores.

Tore a few collector rings apart alot to take off

That Armature may need Replaced ?looks like a Power surge Hit it!

Are the slip rings centered in the window, centered on the brush? Maybe the Camara angle.

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I question the decision to go to just two brushes and not three. If you are running single phase motors in the 208 - 240 volt range, two of the brushes should carry the power to the motors and the third brush should provide an electrical ground connection to the silo unloader rotating parts. Therefore, if one of the hot wires accidentally touches metal on any of the moving unloader parts, it will have the proper ground path back to its power source causing the breaker to trip. Please tell me I'm wrong and it is grounded another way, it was not obvious in the video. Thanks.

Didn't know you still used any pf y

Didn't know you still used any of you silos. Do you put any in your Harvester? I had to takeine all apart and change the rings also.

Shop video next. That's a lot of videos without any grass now.

If it ain't one thing, it's another. Interesting video on how the brushes work in the unloader. I was wondering how that was constructed while watching the last video.

Don't know why you didn't move the brush and appropriate wire to the middle ring

Two missing 1/2" bolts in a cow feed silo. Any quesses where they are now? 😮

I thought it would be 3 phase

My phone tried to call Nate lol

Does Gene still own center state ag?

11:12 😂😂

What about a shovel , the cows still need their feed don’t they?

This was my least favorite thing to do when I worked on the farm.

Andy is Nate a family member?

Nothing is easy.

Excuse you..

And you were worried about content!!

Don’t say, “Hey Siri, call Nate”. My iPad quit the video and tried to call a Nate.

You all why’s could have couple employees shovel it out to I can remember grandpa shoveled solo out by hand

You must have a Doctors degree in fixing hanging on your wall somewhere!

I love you Andy but do you really feel you need to tell us what you were going to do step by step by step by step by step? We just like watching you work. I personally, hate listening to you talk endlessly about what you are going to do. And I doubt I am alone.

That's a Shit desighn having critical energized components exposed to the dust that should be contained in a cleaner environment Geez