Make Your Own Brush Auger

Make Your Own Brush Auger AUGERS Augers (29B) 24-5-29 Conventional augers can be converted into bristle augers right in your farm shop to reduce seed or grain damage, says Uniflyte, Orion, Ill., which recently introduced a new add-on bristle flighting for grain augers. The flighting consists of a coiled poly brush strip mounted on a steel channel. It comes with a set of steel clips. You weld the base of the clip onto the outer edge of the auger flighting and then snap the brush into the clip. When the brush eventually wears out it can be quickly replaced by folding the clip back, allowing you to just remove the old brush and snap a new one in. The brush sweeps the auger tube clean and prevents cracking of seed beans and other crops, according to the company. "It saves a lot of time because to make this kind of brush auger conversion in the past, farmers had to send their auger to the factory," says a company spokesman. "Without the clips there's no way to weld the channel directly to the auger flighting without melting the poly brush strip." The brush strip and steel coiled channel sell for $2.50 to $3.50 per coil depending on size. Clips sell for 63 cents apiece. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Uniflyte, Box 249, Orion, Ill. 61273 (ph 800 235-4974; fax 309 526-3278; E-mail: uniflyte@netexpress.net; Website: www.uniflyte.com).

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