Soil Loading System

• Install the hopper supports into the leg holders.
• Make sure you put the support with bolts on it on the correct side (refer to your shaker motor and look where you marked it.)
• Their bottom side should be flush with the bottom of the leg holders on the frame.
• Make sure they are orientated correctly. See photo.
• On the side of the shaker motor that you didn't weld bolts for, put a bolt (3/4"x1.5") thru both holes and tighten nuts onto them.
• The nut should be on the side of the mount that the motor will be installed to. (see photo)

• Place the shaker onto the bolts already welded to the hopper supports.
• Clamp the other side to the hopper support.
• Use a square to make sure the shaker mount is square with the hopper supports.
• Tighten nuts onto the side with the welded bolts.
• Tack the bolts to the hopper support.
• Make sure you tack them to the hopper support, NOT the shaker mount.
• Tack as much as you can from this position.

• Loosen all the nuts and remove the shaker.
• Protect the threads on the bolts.
• Weld all the way around the bolt to the hopper supports.
• Don't remount the shaker yet.

• Clamp the 34" tall hopper back to the hopper supports.
• It should be centered horizontally between them, and touching the supports all the way down to the hopper mounting plate.
• Torch through the holes circled in the diagram, so you torch through the hopper sheet metal.
• Torch through it on each side, just enough so you have 2 small holes.
• Un-clamp the sheet metal and torch 1/2" holes for the bolt.

• Grind off the slag from the torching.
• Mount the first plate back to the hopper supports.
• Use a 1/2"x3" bolt and a nut with washers on each side.
• Lift the side pieces and clamp them to the first plate via the hinge plates.
• Minimize the gap between them as much as you can by pushing them together tightly.

• Weld it about 50%, as no more is necessary.
• Weld in 3-4 inch sections.

• Clamp the final piece in place to the other side of the side pieces.
• Yet again, minimize the gap between the two.
• You may need somebody to get inside of the hopper and push out so you can clamp it well.
• Weld the last piece like you welded the first one.

• Get a friend or two and lift the grate on top of the hopper.
• The front end (with the slots) should be as shown, and the grate should be inside of the hopper on the other side (the side with the nuts).
• Have your friend hold the grate in place for the next step, or use C-Clamps to clamp the grate to the supports.
• Bolt the grate to the hopper supports (1/2"x 2.5" bolt and lock nut). Bolt both loosely, and then tighten them.
• You'll need 2 washers on each side, as the holes are slots and a 1/2" washer will be too small to prevent the washer from warping. Use a 3/4" washer as the other one.
• You may want to use a large nut in place of a washer on the hopper support side. (see photo)

• Loosely bolt the grate supports to the primary arms
• Bolt (3/4"x2.5" bolt) The grate mounts through the hopper to the grate.
• Use a 3/4" washer where the bolt goes thru the grate support.
• Tighten all bolts

• Install the motor on the shaker motor mount if you haven't already.
• Place it on the bolts on the hopper supports.
• If for some reason it doesn't fit, torch away whatever metal is preventing it.
• Tighten nuts onto it.

Bolt it to the grate.