Enhancing Harvest Efficiency with Hopper Tank Extensions

00:00:00 Johnny Rell the extreme ag. You know, we're out here today, we're working on our combines, getting 'em ready to trade 'em off for the year. 00:00:05 And one thing we added to a couple of our combines this year with the Demco Hopper tank extensions 00:00:09 and we were just trying to figure out how we can get over a little more ground without having to stop and unload. 00:00:13 Because a lot of times we're running multiple combines in the field and it always works out. 00:00:16 The combines get full at the same time or you can't quite make it to the end of the field and you're having to back up 00:00:21 and cut out a spot for the grain cart to come in. And so we added the Demco hopper tank extensions and for a deer combine like where we're running, you know, 00:00:28 it's a hundred bushels what it added. And it's real simple to do. Boats ride on takes just a little bit of time to do 00:00:34 and we're actually gonna take 'em off and put 'em on next year's combine. Just 'cause when I was talking to my guys, they wanted 00:00:39 to use what we already had here and they just thought it'd be easier to do, you know, is just take these off and put 'em on the new one. 00:00:44 So it's a real easy bolt On addition, you know, you just bolt on some extensions on the back and in the corners there you add black canvas in just little 00:00:52 extensions onto them and that's all you do to add the a hundred bushel on too. We went in there, reset all of our sensors, 00:00:56 so they do when a hundred percent full was and everything was simple to do. So for us it's just the time it gives you 00:01:02 to give you a little bit longer harvest time when you're going through the field, not having to stop and dump. 00:01:05 And like I said, we're running multiple combines. We actually put these hopper tanks on two combines and on two of 'em we did not. 00:01:10 And that way it kind of made 'em where they stay out of sink a little bit more. Next year we're actually probably gonna run 'em on all the 00:01:15 combines just because how easy it was to add onto and honestly taking 'em off hadn't been too bad either. So it's just been a pretty easy process for us to do 00:01:23 and been a very good, high quality product. Hadn't had any issues when we bolted 'em on. This is one thing we use that we didn't have to do anything 00:01:29 to once we added it to the combines. And that says a lot nowadays, a lot of times you get stuff and it doesn't line up just right or you get stuff 00:01:36 and it starts falling off 'cause stuff right, you know, gets loose on us. But this right here was bolted on from the beginning 55 00:01:41.525 --> 00:01:42.525