What EXACTLY is this item. Please help!! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!🥰

[JenVintageLove]

Hello friends!!! I need some help!!!
My father's corn crib was unfortunately hit by a tornado and must be taken down but what EXACTLY is this called? I would like to know.anything about this and also very curious what approximate value would be?? Please help. Thank you in advance!!!!

 

[JenVintageLove]

 

[MossRoad]

Looks like an elevator to move the corn up to the top of the crib. I doubt there's much value there, but you never know.

 

[sea2summit]

There appears to be a tag on it, I'd start there. Looks like half of a lifting system for the corn, if a gravity feed wagon loaded that conveyor, the big box could be the hopper for another grain screw of some sort.

 

[KennyG]

Yep, it's an elevator (some places they call it a hiker). We had the PTO powered portable one that we used for both bales of hay and ear corn, but sometimes they were permanently mounted. When everyone went to shelled corn, they were replaced by rotary augers.

 

[JenVintageLove]

Would anyone happen to know who might be

Yep, it's an elevator (some places they call it a hiker). We had the PTO powered portable one that we used for both bales of hay and ear corn, but sometimes they were permanently mounted. When everyone went to shelled corn, they were replaced by rotary augers.

Interested in this? I feel it is a great piece of equipment and many farmers or collectors I would imagine might want it. Worst case even if there were no value? Kenny what value would you place on this? I wonder if they are sold at auctions very often?.....thank you in advance!!! I appreciate it sooooo much!!!

 

[JenVintageLove]

More pics

 

[CH4Ohio]

If the motor runs, someone might offer something for it, but it looks to be pretty much scrap too. The rest of the electrical equipment is obsolete and no one would install it or use it. You should probably plan on scrap value for the wiring and the other metal components. I don't see anyone "collecting" this.

Question, is the live-bed (the chained angle-iron bars that travel along the chain and rotate around the track) flat / horizontal? In the pics, it looks to me like it's flat and not inclined. Either way, it was used to help load or unload the corn crib by moving corn along the live-bed chute to a discharge chute where it could be collected in a hopper, wheelbarrow, etc.

 

[KennyG]

I have no idea what the value would be. Collectors generally aren't interested in equipment that is a permanent part of a structure. Not much call these days for ear corn handling equipment. It could be used as a conveyor for other purposes, but you'd have to be lucky to find someone interested.

 

[CH4Ohio]

Hello friends!!! I need some help!!!
My father's corn crib was unfortunately hit by a tornado and must be taken down but what EXACTLY is this called? I would like to know.anything about this and also very curious what approximate value would be?? Please help. Thank you in advance!!!!

Should have mentioned . . .

This is a "live-bed" like you'd have in the bed of a manure spreader or on trucks that deliver granular material. Something like a conveyor belt, except there's no "belt" and the chain driven angle-iron bars just grab material and moves it along in small bites to the discharge opening. They probably referred to it as an "unloader", similar to the auger "unloaders" in old silos.

Again, I doubt there's any collector value. The chain and sprockets, etc. look to be in decent shape and are standard sizes as used on lots of equipment, but there's no resale value in used rusty parts. (Though I've seen a few times where I would have paid several dollars for a few links of chain when I needed it . . . )