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.

[@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.

[@steve78565]

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

[@seabs15]

We build 105s and 155s. Thats a big tank! just got done with a 105.

[@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.

[@willamsgabriel2401]

Construindo um caixote de grãos. Um slideshow de fotos do lado de fora, e um vídeo dos jaques que levantam o lixo no interior.

[@mx270a]

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

[@michaelneff9097]

instead of 2 people on a seem with 1 wrench each, why not one person with 2 wrenches. and tell that guy running the impact not to take his finger off the trigger speeds it up a lot.

[@kene2844]

Lotta jack hating going on here.

[@kevinblair1157]

Slow for sure even the guy tightening the seems was slow as molasses lol we could put a stiffner ring on and tighten it faster than that

[@mx270a]

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

[@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

[@Daviotus]

how we do it. we set up 7 or 8 hydraulic jacks around a bin and raise the bin about three rings before we have to lower the jacks again

[@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.

[@johnchambers8813]

harleyglide2008 if you can build jacks that lift a ring in 30 seconds please give me your info

[@AneySyhananthalath]

so fucking loud while working inside one of them

[@mx270a]

We put up one bin per year, so, yeah.

[@LHZY]

If they don't hold water there not proper tanks/bins/silos

[@steve78565]

Wow thats real slow must take forever to build a bin

[@howesilomontage]

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

[@yubi222]

What is the labor cost to erect a bin that size ?

[@ryavzun]

thanks for share this video

[@RDMeldahl]

I'd like to see proof of that 30 second Bin jack.....

[@michaelneff9097]

I know lol. it takes us around 4 minutes with a couple people closing and opening the jack valves, and putting in the pins and 2nd stage blocks.

[@Daviotus]

and our jacks are on the outside

[@howesilomontage]

@mx270a thanks

[@Robert40693]

When I set up Grain Bins we used hand winches, this is a lazy way to do it.

[@joemcbee]

If the builder has the means to make the job easier on themselves, more power to them. For example, is it lazy for a drywall installer to use a screw gun to secure drywall to the studs when they have a perfectly good Philips screwdriver on hand? No. It increases productivity and decreases user fatigue.

[@michaelneff9097]

+joemcbee I prefer hand Jack's they are faster cause with hydraulic jacks you have to change the mounts every ring vs 2. we only use ours on larger bins we build. they are also safer cause unless you have enough men to have a man on every crank jack you have to walk it up and the hydraulic jack lifts it all at once.

[@joemcbee]

Good point. Eventually I want to make a house out of a grain bin

[@steve78565]

Rizers

[@jonbecker6028]

hope this is a hobby and not a living... hate to see the bids u make