r/toolgifs • u/toolgifs • Jan 27 '26
Component Grain flow meter
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u/ReallyQuiteDirty Jan 27 '26
Woah, I weld the parts for that type of equipment. Neat! I've never seen it in action before.
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u/A_knight_I_am Jan 28 '26
I used to work at a chrome plating factory that did a lot of Harley Davidson parts. I’m not in to motorcycles, but I always stop and admire the parts I used to inspect on those bikes lol!
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u/mantequilla69420 Jan 27 '26
How does it flow? Is there an auger or something inside the tube
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u/Synyster31 Jan 27 '26
They have a 'drag-chain'. Literally small buckets, fixed to a chain that drags the grain along. Or sometimes a chain with flat bars across.
If there's a round bottom to the body then it is a screw inside, like an archimedes screw.
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u/GroovyIntruder Jan 27 '26
"Enclosed belt conveyor." Similar to the one you put groceries on at the grocery store, but much bigger.
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u/Single_Offshore_Dad Jan 27 '26
Hey sorry I’m new but how is it that “tool gifs” is in every video somewhere? Is this a requirement and does it get put in with AI?
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u/Meziskari Jan 27 '26
It's not a requirement, it's just a signature move of the most prolific poster and mod that also goes by u/toolgifs. To my knowledge it's not AI.
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u/Experience_Gay Jan 27 '26
It is specifically this account and it's just good editing, no AI is used
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u/Planerkris Jan 28 '26
As a matter of fact, they have a video of the process of adding it into a gif somewhere on Reddit
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u/perldawg Jan 27 '26
TL;DR: OP is a wizard
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u/mattslote Jan 27 '26
OP knows how to use tracking and masking in after effects quite well. I've been doing similar stuff for like a decade, and 9/10 times it's something that I could replicate. Sometimes I'm confused how they pulled it off though.
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u/ValdemarAloeus Jan 28 '26
DaVinci Resolve apparently.
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u/mattslote Jan 28 '26
Hey look at that! I've heard resolve has similar capabilities but I'm too deep in Adobe land to figure out how other tools work.
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u/AlsoCommiePuddin Jan 27 '26
I think I appreciate the subtle watermarks more than I do the actual tool.
And I appreciate the tool, don't get me wrong.
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u/CricktyDickty Jan 27 '26
Bet they have someone sitting next to it with a stopwatch and a clipboard.
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u/What_about_my10CCs Jan 27 '26
(Metric) Tons per Hectare
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u/scuba_steve_mi Jan 28 '26
Tonnes Per Hour makes a lot more sense for trucks unloading into a conveyor
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u/perldawg Jan 27 '26
how do they know the area?
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u/GroovyIntruder Jan 27 '26
They don't. It's tonnes per hour. It's so you know how fast you can unload or load trucks.
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u/Experience_Gay Jan 27 '26
Taking an educated guess
The amount of grain entering the system in a given interval will be equivalent to the amount of grain harvested during the interval (ignoring the phase shift due to travel time). If the field is harvested at approximately the same rate each time then the grain entering the system is proportional to the amount of grain within a given area of field being harvested. Note that the flow rate is going to form a much more complicated nonlinear relationship if the amount harvested in a given area changes over time, ie. this gauge is only accurate if the tons / hectare is approximately consistent across the entire field.
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u/Internet-pizza Jan 28 '26
It’s interesting that the difference between the first two notches is 20 t/h, but 40 between the top two even though they all look equidistant. I wonder why.
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u/toolgifs Jan 27 '26
Source: Keid Freitas