Nobody got hurt!! Moving our 117 foot, 7,300 pound conveyor to the top of our grain bins!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Installing our new grain bin conveyor. Things got a little hairy!!!
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant" -Robert Louis Stevenson
Nathan, I 'm VERY happy you mentioned that the skidloader was stuck early on. I'd have been staring at that and missed a lot of interesting stuff up above. Some of those OSHA meetings were probably to unclench some stressed -ahem- tissues. That had to near capacity on that boom truck. LOVE the comment about outstanding videos ABOVE crane operation, you ornery guy!! Driest sense of humor west of the Mississippi. Thanks for posting, buddy. 57
I did Ag Millwrighting from the time I was 17-24 years old, worked for Advanced Grain Systems in Fergus Falls, MN. I liked hanging grain pumps like this one. Pretty straightforward to put together too. We hung a 162 foot grain pump, but we did it in two pieces. The high heights never bothered me, I miss millwrighting some days.
VERY interesting. That crane operator is flying blind down there. Have to have amazing communications with someone up to to pull that off. Considering all that COULD have gone wrong, this was a totally successful operation.. Good on all involved. (ceptin who ever got the skid steer stuck) LOL
I was on top of a 150 foot water tower this week. its always windy on top. glad to see another video
Always windy on top! That's what she said...
Oh wow very impressive. Pleased it worked out all OK even if a tweak or 2 was required Thanks
HOLY COW! That things looks huge. Congrats on the successful mission lol
Hey, Great video! I love them all, keep up the good work!
Stay safe love your videos
Best videos on the Tube! Them coming!
Too wet to finish cutting soybeans and to wet to finish drilling wheat but nice and cozy sitting in my lazy boy watching your great vids.. Keep em coming
Holy Cow is right, you should have asked the skid steer if it was alright. LOL>.
Several of my 12 to 30 thousand farm acreage size neighbors have grain receiving facilities. They are the exception. Most take corn to large elevators or Feedlots. The largest one "Ag Producers Co'op" has 68 million bu storage. Our son rents our land, I drive the combine he drives the cart. Two truck drivers can haul 20 thousand bu a day to the elevators. We just do not have time to store or dry grain.
Robert Reznik For us the storage has had a huge return on investment. At times it's a pain, but so is waiting in line for an hour for each load through harvest.
They took a lot of precision to get it placed
Great video!
seems you missed all 257 opportunities for something to go horribly wrong. yea, I'd be happy with that. thanks for the video.
love your stuff just subbed. not sure bought the guys that rigged that but that is way to much of an angle for that load. I know thats more them then you but just want ya to be safe! I come from piping industry and would not go near that at all hahah scary angle. you want abouy 60 degrees and you have about 30. take care!
Skid loader stuck BIG ass crane on site I see a solution to the problem
I used to work in a medium sized shipyard and it’s amazing what twirling fingers and pointing will get done although I can’t remember the command to switch from little to big crane and visa versa
Thanx from the left coast near the Krapitol of California
Well... That lift was a little too close to the edge -- too many folks taking chances they probably didn't know were taking. The crane wasn't quite tall enough for the job. But, nobody died. Maybe that's good enough. Thanks for the awesome video
OSHA meeting 😂😂
Great video. I'm not a big fan of heights. I only climb up the bin if absolutely necessary. I could never build them for a living.
thedonleroy you and me both!
I am not afraid of ANYTHING. Maybe it my military training...
Your farms is so cool i want to farm so bad no farm though😔
carry yourself down from your supervising job and work getting the skid loader unstuck lol. I would been shitting bullets over the wind and the crane while as close they were working what a mess if the wind had caught the conveyor the right way.
Love your videos.😊
great video thanks
How many bushels can you store on the farm now?
Jason Procai about 300,000
Awesome info on the tech that u use for planting and monitoring your fields. U did give an over view of your awesome machinery. One or a couple pieces of info if u would that I would like to know is first, what factors do you use to determine the size of the tractors and equipment. Second how many acres in total do u farm. If you haven't mentioned it and I just missed it. Thank you for the videos looking forward to more
Jason Norris we farm 2,500 acres. As far as equipment sizes, we generally decide based on what types of jobs we will be doing with the tractors.
What could go wrong? Lol nice stuff!
Wow -- scary and impressive. Definitely a job for folks who knows what they're doing.
Thanks for sharing looks like safety meeting did not discuss safety harnesses working at height. Like comment I don't walk up bin ladder like that. If it was me I would be hanging on for grim death must have fallen of something high in a former life.
How big is the GSI BIN ?
So is there a maximum angle that the conveyor can’t work efficiently? I would think that the spiral auger wouldn’t be able to lift with it straight up and down.
Is the skidloaders still stuck¿¿¿¿¿
We just got a 9870 and they r beasts
Brett For The Win we like ours!
Guess that is 9870 STS? We have a 9770 and it can do over 3200 bu/hr.
What’s a better bin sukup or gsi?
What size silos do you own? (rated by bushels preferably)
Is the skid loader still stuck? Happy thanksgiving to you and your family.
Guessing no-one there has ever used a spreader bar.?..?
is the skid loader still stuck LOL. cool video when i worked i was a welder in power plants. we did a lot of stuff simular to that always fun.
I loved your commentary on this one!! Lmao! 👍🏼
I was always nervous when cranes had to place things for us too, the ole butthole would be puckered the whole time till it got set, looks like they'd have some kind of rope or tether on it end to keep it steady on cranks but that just me, we all know it better right lol
Just remember when you're working at height off the ground it's not the fall that kills you it's the sudden stop
Some say the skid load is still stuck there to this day-
Great video. Love the witty comments. Once it's in place can you show a view from on top of one of the bins? Being the round pipes, are there two augers?
I believe there's a chain in the tubes. Continuous lope.
Brian Barnes Klug is correct. There's a continuous loop inside. It's a chain with poly paddles on it about every 12".
Cool. For a future video idea you could go through the grain handling system in even greater detail than this and the previous video (bushels per minute / how you control where the grain is flowing - all from the shed or do you have to climb the leg/bins to open and close doors).
At 6:21ish stand there and look pretty
What a SUKUP 🤣😂😭
Thanx from the left coast near the Krapitol of California
But is the skid loader stuck?
wbball15 Yes, actually it is. Good eye!
Is this faster than the air system or is it so you can run both at the same time?
Andrew L1 We will be able to move dry grain into any of those bins now without having to cycle it through the dryer and into the air system. For this year it will be nice because we plan on storing 2 bins full of soybeans, so hopefully those are dry right out of the field.
Sell the beans from the field, doesn't pay to store. Unless it to far to haul to your market of choice, at harvest time.
Klug Farms Klug we have made a lot of money locking basis and holding beans.
In our area, storage has paid off HUGE for us. It's one of the best (if not THE best) investments we have made. It allows us to wait for better basis, blend different qualitites of grain to avoid high priced discounts, frees up our marketing so we can sell to whoever is willing to pay us better (trucking costs are always a factor), and we never have to wait in long lines at the elevator during harvest, which is huge in our area because often times we're against the clock before the weather turns bad.
Seems like where ever your at the waiting in lines kills your time in the field the cost of the bins is out weighed by the cost of time lost in line and most times around here the market price drops big time at harvest
pull it out with the pickup
Looks like a small crane for the job. Unless it’s just how it looks on video.
PA Farms It was just barely big enough. That's why they had to set it back down and boom out more. It didn't have the hydraulic power to boom out in the air.
MN Millennial Farmer at that point I would have insisted on a new crane.
They also had the straps at a too low of angle and I can assure you that the come-along in the center is NOT OSHA approved for lifting 7000 lbs. Lifting over the front of a boom truck is not recommended by most manufactures. I was a crane operator for 16 years and my dad was a crane operator for 40 years.
@@kingmike40that come-along is probably to take some of the high loads due to the low angle.. ideal they would have used a spreader to rig the load to 4 or 5 points. they would have needed a bigger crane, but this one was a bit on the wee side anyway :-). Also: no hard heads, and no fall arrest equipment.
America - where safety regulations matter and where fewer homegrown crane tip-over videos are created, per capita, than any other country on earth.
4:46 Hey?! are you ok?
How they had ever donuts and coffee. Great joke
errrrr me not been a farmer but what is it ?????beer transporter ??ps I take it lot can not drive as stuff keeps getting stuck in the usa
why is there two augers
Must be a return belt route on the top tube.
Blane Heinrich it's a continuous loop. There's no auger flighting, it's a chain with paddles on it.
Interesting
Need a bigger crane!
I'm guessing not his first time climbing. Since you got the crane, grab a strap, and set skid steer on some dry land. Oh yea better have another OSHA mtg.
I would only be up there if I was: 1) drugged out of my gord & 2) cabled & strapped down!
thr8061 I don't mind being where I was at but climbing to the peak is not something I enjoy!
I never enjoyed climbing our 88' silos on the outside either, but when you plug the blower pipe, someone has to go up and bang on it! I had no issues climbing on the inside, but on the outside it just seemed higher.
wow
Where is your farm in Minnesota
Thomas Juhl southwest of Alexandria about 15-20 miles
MN Millennial Farmer I'm actually making a map for Farming Simulator 17 of your area and I think I found your farm at 45°43'14.77"N and 95°34'8.19"W On google earth!
Please be careful working on those grain bins
First view😀
Robby Evans 2nd, I watched it last night before I uploaded it this morning!
MN Millennial Farmer haha your right. That is super cool that you got conveyor up above. My grandpa farms to but it’s just 20 acres of Alf Alfa . Love watching your videos keep em up
How much did it cost per hour to rent that crane?
Josh Turri This crane belongs to the company we bought the bin and conveyor from, so I'm not sure. It's not a real large crane though.
MN Millennial Farmer my dad has a crane. We just moved a old 50,000 bushel bin onto a new concrete pad.
That is NOT how you rig that double run
What’s better gsi or sukup bins?