Farming Video | Matt Miles Breaks Down His Favorite Hopper Bottom Setup

11 Oct 251m 21s

Matt Miles walks us around his custom-built XtremeAg Edition hopper bottom from Demco, and let’s just say—it’s built for farmers who’ve been there, done that, and are tired of tearing up equipment at railroad crossings. This trailer’s not just tough, it’s smart—featuring sight glasses, a high-clearance design, and slick black-on-gray styling. Matt talks through the details he loves most, especially how Demco designed this rig to hold up season after season. If you’ve ever bottomed out a trailer or dumped money into a repair from a bad crossing, you’ll appreciate what Matt’s showing off here.

00:00:00 So guys, we're now here at the Hopper bottom. Um, this is kind of a special built hopper bottom here at Demco Made. 00:00:06 It's the extreme ag addition. It's got the gray exterior black frame, black rims, black tarp. 00:00:12 It's pretty dead gum. Cool. You know, Demco makes these hopper bottoms and all kind of variations of length 00:00:17 and widths, uh, to fit your special needs. Very well built trailer, it's just as well built as their tender trailer. 00:00:23 When they build something, it's gonna be there to last sight glasses. So you can see in each hopper, no kind of what amount 00:00:29 of grain you have in the hopper bottom without having to climb over in it. It's got the aluminum ladder on the 00:00:34 back platforms on the front. The best thing to me about this trailer in the ag business is you see how high these hoppers are. 00:00:41 We have a lot of problems. I've had hoppers hung up on railroad tracks before. Um, that's not good. 00:00:47 You end up getting charged by the railroad company, you end up having to spend $20,000 to fix the hopper. So there's a lot of ugly things that happen 00:00:54 around railroad crossings. This trailer here will probably cross any railroad crossing in Arkansas. 00:00:59 So if you got some fields that are hard to get to because of railroad crossings, this thing will definitely do that. 00:01:05 So, if you're in the market for a hopper bottom, I don't think there's a better built steel hopper bottom in the United States or anywhere in the world 00:01:12 that's any better than the Demco. 00:01:14.305 --> 00:01:15.845