Storing Bulk Cottonseed ..

[MIHunter]

Thanks all!

[muddyz]

Those of you who pile it up like this? What do you do with it? Shovel into pickup bed/trailer and then drive around and shovel it out again?

We are dealing with 15, 1k lb feeders at our place so that sounds like a lot of shoveling to me.

[SaltwaterSlick]

We shovel it into molasses tubs and haul them out to dump in feeders... One of those little wire hoop feeders like folks buy made out of horse wire holds 4 tubs. Most of ours are made from 1/2 of a horse panel rolled into a circle. They hold 6 tubs. Some of us have 2 feeders at each location... We use snow scoops to fill the tubs at the bulk location. It goes pretty fast. We drilled holes in the tubs and put rope handles with a short piece of water hose. Makes them much easier to carry and empties can be stacked without them sticking together... Pretty good system and works for us...

[dope hunter]

What about storing it in a 1 ton super sack?


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[AntlerCollector]

What about storing it in a 1 ton super sack?


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Those are a PITA to empty.

[Sackett]

Those are a PITA to empty.

No harder than the pail method above. If you have a tractor, it’s even easier. We’ve been buying a sack or two, then using a 5-gallon bucket to transfer from the sack to the feeder while pulled up next to it. You just have to make sure you put your feeder where you can pull up next to it. One 5 gallon bucket of Cottonseed weighs about 25-30 lbs, so you can figure on 20 scoops to fill up most wire/tpost feeders 👍🏿

[kyle1974]

We keep it in the sacks in a barn. The rats get a little bit of it but that’s about it. Right now cows are the biggest “other” I have to worry about.

We transfer 4-6 sacks to a small trailer and shovel it. Cottonseed is easy to keep. I like the bags because it’s relatively easy for us to load up and move around.

[Yelladog]

Anywhere close to Georgetown to get bulk cottonseed?


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[TexasTK]

Anybody built a covered cottonseed chute?
I am thinking about building one 10'x30' w concrete floor & cinder block walls about 10' high. I load from this w tractor to back of my pickup.

[160class]

Anybody built a covered cottonseed chute?
I am thinking about building one 10'x30' w concrete floor & cinder block walls about 10' high. I load from this w tractor to back of my pickup.

We had one on the Catarina Place I was on, it worked well. Had 2 big doors and we could get a tractor into most of it (pretty big tractor) or use the skid steer and use it. A little more up front cost but it will last a long while.

[TexasTK]

We had one on the Catarina Place I was on, it worked well. Had 2 big doors and we could get a tractor into most of it (pretty big tractor) or use the skid steer and use it. A little more up front cost but it will last a long while.

You have any pics ?

[160class]

You have any pics ?

Just looked and I do not, wish I could be more help.

I do know we would have to dump the cottonseed on the ground outside of it and then push it all into the barn.

[TexasTK]

OK,thx anyway. Will build roof high enough so truck can dump it on the concrete. Hard to scoop off bare ground w/o getting a bunch of dirt mixed in.

[TexasTK]

Finished cottonseed storage bldg. Will make life easier on these old bones.

[Ungawa]

I grew up on a cotton farm we always held back a trailer load for cattle. we would put it on a 4 wheel trailer with open top and park the trailer in our tractor shed. As a kid I would play in the cotton seed digging tunnels. Cows thought that stuff was candy.