Cliff Granberry Corporation Now is the time to inspect your overhead seed house for structural soundness. A double hopper seed house can hold as much as 180,000 pounds of seed. A failure could cause injuries to personnel and costly downtime. When properly maintained, a seed house should last for many years, but it will fail at some point.
Recommended Maintenance and Inspection Steps...
1. Take all safety precautions when working on the seed house. 2. Wash out all seed with water or compressed air. 3. Search for stress fractures, corrosion, and loose or missing hardware, paying particular attention to hopper panels and the lower side wall panes. 4. Remove corrosion with a steel brush and coat these areas with a rust inhibiting paint. 5. Repair any cracked or torn sheet metal panels as needed. 6. Tighten or replace hardware as needed. 7. Inspect all structural steel for corrosion and stress, paying particular attention to twisted and sagging beams. 8. Inspect hopper doors for proper operation. 9. Inspect all concrete piers, anchor bolts, and base plates of the vertical columns.
If you are concerned that your overhead seed house may not make it through another season, the Spee-D-Flow™ 2.0 Seed House with steeper hoppers and hydraulically operate doors is the answer.
If your seed house is in good condition, but seed isn’t flowing when the hopper doors are open and the doors are hard to open, the Spee-D-Flow™ 2.0 Hopper Conversion is the solution.
Please contact Jim Granberry to discuss these options. Best Regards, Jim Granberry – President Cliff Granberry Corporation www.cliffgranberrycorp.com