Lefebure.com - Building a grain bin

Building a grain bin. A slideshow of pictures from the outside, and a video of the bin jacks lifting the bin on the inside.

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• corn

[steve78565]

Wow thats real slow must take forever to build a bin

[mx270a]

@steve78565 I'm sorry that hydraulic jacks don't meet your expectations.

[howesilomontage]

what did the worker hook onto the hydrolic at 3:40?

[mx270a]

@howesilomontage The hydraulic cylinders on the jacks aren't as tall as the rings, so they go up as far as they can, we pin the jack in place, lower the cylinders, reattach them to a different part of the jack, and raise them again. Have to do that twice to go up the height of one ring.

[harleyglide2008]

That has to be the slowest raising of a grain bin I have ever seen!! Get some real jacks. Email me and I will build a set that can lift that little bin in about 30 seconds.

[mx270a]

That would save me ~30 minutes per bin. Not cost effective for one bin per year, particularly when you're borrowing the jacks.

[mx270a]

@guitarman71084 We aren't professional bin builders. Also, it is generally bad form to act like a prick when trying to sell your services.

[kemptonjones]

While you guys do your piss-in-the-snow contest, just want y'all to know it's a beautiful early SUNDAY morning up here in Saskatchewan CANADA while an expert-or-otherwise crew assemble Weststeel bins . . about 200 ft from our frikken bedroom window . . 125dB NOISE LEVEL . . if only you'd all go to Germany as xxpjhxx challenged . . or maybe Mexico . . heck, even Pakistan . .

and do your thing there . . Anywhere . . except outside our bedroom window!

If only! LOL

[steve78565]

I build grain bins for a living we use 2 stage jacks takes 30 sec to lift

[GrishinAl]

@harleyglide2008 hello. i'm from Russia. we are looking for jacks like yours. please, send me the contacts where i can buy it. thanks

[harleyglide2008]

@howesilomontage. The jacks that I build will lift 2 rings at a time before you need to change them. We build bins up to 135 foot diameter. Typically a 105 foot bin I will need 35 jacks and can go two rings at a time and can lift a ring in a matter of minutes even on the 30th ring. Crew of 7 guys we can put up a 105 foot diameter 32 rings high with side draw, ladders, walkway on roof in about 2 weeks or so.

[AneySyhananthalath]

so fucking loud while working inside one of them

[howesilomontage]

@mx270a

thanks

[sofuckingfunny]

@DramaTubeFag Well, Fag I don't think I would put up your bins. Just a little too busy building 55 bins this year and 60 on tap already for next year. Peace out I gotta build some bins.

and before the snide comebacks come out we do 36 -72 ft bins using the bainter jacks and hand crank jacks for anything under 30ft