Supa Bins make high-volume, broad-acre grain farming safer and more efficient. Brothers Dallas and Kaidan Boyd designed and started building innovative new chaser bin systems back in 2019 that make the job of transferring grain and fertiliser much easier, (and safer), for farmers. When they needed a compact engine with more grunt to power their design, the Yanmar diesel engine TNV series stood well above and beyond the competition.
Australia’s award-winning Clear Ridge Fabrication recently made the decision to use Yanmar diesel engines exclusively aboard their grain and fertiliser bin trailer designs.
Clear Ridge Fabrication (CRF) – born from the ingenuity and hard work of brothers Dallas and Kaidan Boyd in 2019 – build some of the best field grain handling bin trailers available on the market.
Often referred to as “grouper bins”, the Boyd brother’s designs have not only delivered better high-volume grain and fertiliser handling, but a safer system to do such work.
The Yanmar 4TNV84T, (57.3hp maximum output), water cooled, direct injection and turbocharged industrial engine is the heart of the design within the self-contained hydraulic drive option bins.
Both the Supa Bin, (offered in 22 to 50 tonne capacity options by CRF), can be supplied with an onboard power pack to run a conveyer, a self-cleaning tubulator, (similar to an auger), and other hydraulics.
When Dallas and Kaidan wanted more horsepower without using more space aboard their Supa Bin designs, the Yanmar TNV industrial engine range was a standout winner. “We’d been having some issues with supply from the engine supplier we’d been using in previous years, but we also needed a slightly more powerful engine,” Dallas explained.
“When we realised we could get more power out of a smaller-sized engine with the Yanmar, it was a no-brainer really,” he said.
Yanmar’s TNV range has always excelled in terms of power-to-weight and is famous for Yanmar’s research and development of an engine with injector and fuel chamber design that creates a greater swirl effect of air and atomised fuel, creating a cleaner burn.
Displacing just under 2 litres, this compact, hard-working yet low noise and vibration turbo-charged diesel engine can deliver an impressive 42.7kW of power at 3,000rpm. Those are just the kind of figures that are music to the ears of CRF with their multi-purpose chaser bins.
Power Equipment’s ability to supply quality engines where other brands have struggled in recent years has also helped this Australian manufacturer to stay on top of their game.
Winning the prestigious Greater Hume Council award, CRF’s Supa Bin is a multipurpose unit that can assist in sowing, spreading, filling sheep feeders, filling silo bag machines at harvest time and carting bulk grain. It is a huge time and labour saver for any farmer in the grain game.
The unloading rate, (up to four tonnes per minute!), also makes the Supa Bin an efficient grain transfer option into trucks or bulk storage. As you can imagine, that kind of transfer rate requires good horsepower to make it happen.
With different compartments and a conveyor belt system, grain or fertiliser can be conveyed to the rear of the unit with no contamination.
Experience in grain farming creates a great farming innovation
Traditionally, the Boyd family cropped 3441 hectares of wheat, barley and canola north of West Wyalong in New South Wales, Australia.
When drought took hold, the family made the decision to lease out their farm and the two brothers combined their talents as qualified welders.
“On the farm, we always wanted a bin like this and we had the time and opportunity after leasing the farm to start designing them,” Kaidan said.
Dallas and Kaidan’s many years’ experience in grain farming had them well aware of the dangers in using tipping trucks on unstable paddock environments. They also identified the long-standing issue of cross contamination when transferring products from a grouper bin system into air-seeders.
Fast forward to 2020 and they had introduced the Supa Tube tubulator.
The Supa Tube attaches to the rear of the bin and can rotate a total of 270 degrees, with a 180 degree working range – the first of its kind in Australia. The tubulator is available anywhere from six metres to 12 metres in length, and unlike an auger, is completely self-cleaning. This guarantees zero contamination in the whole process of transferring products from the grouper into the seeder.
And of course, tube transfer of materials eliminates the risk of using tipping trucks out in the paddock. “This is the first of its kind in Australia with these capabilities,” Kaidan Boyd says.
Self-contained hydraulic drive packages were built into their Supa Bin and Supa Chaser Bin systems using Yanmar TNV’s to help improve efficiency, (for example, allowing the bin and Supa Tube systems to be operated when they are disconnected from a tractor or being towed behind a vehicle without a PTO).
Power Equipment salutes the Boyd brothers and is proud to provide Yanmar power as the engine of choice for this brilliant Australian innovator.
