Removing Stored Material Using a Sweep Having Bumpers

A method of removing material from a storage, wherein the storage has an outlet of a conveyor for delivering the material to the storage, a system for supporting the outlet within the storage comprising a plurality of spaced, removable legs mounted in deployed positions, and a sweep comprising bumpers, wherein said method comprises:

• extracting the material until at least one of the removable legs is accessible out of the material;
• removing the at least one leg from the deployed position thereof;
• placing the at least one leg onto the supporting system in a stored position thereof;
• operating the sweep to continue extracting more of the material until one of the bumpers bumps into another of the legs that is still mounted in the deployed position thereof;
• stopping the sweep;
• removing the other leg from the deployed position thereof;
• placing the other leg onto the supporting system in a stored position thereof;
• continuing said operating and said stopping the sweep sequentially for each of the legs that is still mounted in the deployed position thereof, and removing and placing, respectively, each of the legs that is still mounted in the deployed position thereof from the deployed position thereof onto the supporting system in a stored position thereof until all of the legs are in the stored positions thereof;
• and
• operating the sweep to continue extracting more of the material.

A method of removing material from a storage, wherein the storage has an outlet of a conveyor for delivering the material to the storage, a system for supporting the outlet within the storage comprising a plurality of removable first legs mounted in deployed positions and a plurality of removable second legs mounted in deployed positions and spaced from the first legs, and a sweep comprising bumpers, wherein said method comprises:

• extracting the material until the removable first legs are accessible out of the material;
• removing the first legs from the deployed positions thereof;
• operating the sweep to continue extracting more of the material until one of the bumpers bumps into one of the removable second legs;
• stopping the sweep;
• removing the one leg from the deployed position thereof;
• continuing said operating and said stopping the sweep sequentially for each of the second legs that is still mounted in the deployed position thereof, and removing respectively each of the second legs that is still mounted in the deployed position thereof from the deployed position thereof, until all of the second legs are removed from the deployed positions thereof;
• and
• operating the sweep to continue extracting more of the material.