Used in agricultural applications, portable grain augers can be found on farms and in commercial installations, transporting grain from ground level into storage facilities like silos, grain bins, or trucks. Its primary purpose is to quickly and efficiently transfer bulk quantities of grain, seed, or feed from one location to another.
Grain augers powered by diesel engines come in various lengths and sizes, designed for different capacities and distances. In this environment, you will find WPT’s Pilotless® Power Take-Off (PTO). It eliminates wear and tear on the engine, reduces the cost of extra parts, and makes installation simpler. These benefits are especially desirable during harvest when the need arises to speed up the grain handling process.
No pilot bearing means eliminating costly downtime while trying to align the pilot bearing on the installation process. With our Dual Spherical Roller main bearing design, the WPT Pilotless® PTO offers a larger side load capacity without affecting the crankshaft performance. It also allows for heavily sideloaded right-angle belt drives or inline applications with a coupler. This makes for a great matchup with self-propelled loading grain augers. Diesel engines power these augers and transfer around 14,000 bushels an hour. Agriculture implements such as these augers must be dependable, versatile, and transportable to travel for harvest. Our Pilotless® PTO allows a manufacturer to configure the design and layout to be compact and functional while delivering incredible power and performance.
Pilotless® Advantages in Grain Auger Applications
The Pilotless® PTO product can be retrofitted into existing equipment or engineered for new equipment and provides the following benefits and features:
- Dual Spherical Roller main bearing design
- Time-saving assembly with no pilot bearing alignment required.
- Most sizes fit within the envelope of the previous design.
- No direct loading to the crankshaft increases the life of the engine’s main bearings.
- Up to 70 percent increase in sideload capacity
- Standard, HD Molded, and HD Laminated friction options.
For more information regarding the Pilotless® PTO or any other PTOs from WPT, please contact info@wptpower.com or your WPT Factory Representative.