Meal bin filler pipe

Poor Farmer in the hills

I built an indoor meal bin 3 years ago in the corner of my shed. I used plastic sewer pipes and fittings for the intake pipe for blowing in the feed with the joints screwed together. The joint broke just as the last load was finished being blown in.
Does anyone know where i would get a steel intake pipe or the fittings to make one.

1chippy

try your local air conditioning or ventilation guys. runs into dear enough stuff.

st1979

What about using flexible rubber hose similar to the stuff the lorries use for blowing in. Dad done similar years ago. Used a ford major cyclinder liner for the connector that the lorry joined onto (has a lip and all to fit lorry pipe) then a piece of galvanised downpipe then for the curve up into the loft he used hose pipe. It lasted 30years till i bought a bin

Dupont

If the last bend lasted 3 years i would just replace it for the same.them bends aren't dear.or try get the blue 4" wavin pipe i think there for water

himwdah

for farm bins we use steel bends and plastic straights, at a meal mill we work at we only use steel uprights if its the main bins that are used everyday, bends about three years and blowpipes 8yrs at the mill, on farms steel and plastic last the time of the bin.

we dont make bins just do repairs, bends come from bin manufacturers, also we only use the yellow pipe as its easier seen but black is alright.