Here We GO! Raising GIANT Grain Bins｜Part 1

[@shopshop144]

I realize what the logic is behind buying these, but if it all works out how long is the pay back, when will your investment start making money for you, along with the freedom they give you? Did you figure out how many nuts and bolts each bin requires? Guess the right number, win a prize!

[@WelkerFarms]

I can do some very basic math and give a little understanding to the matter. Say we have 50k bushels at harvest and we have no where to store it on the farm. The local grain elevator will take it and store it for us at 8 cents per bushel/month. That is $4,000 a month for them to store it. And we only store in hopes we can sell when prices increase. So it is a gamble as no one really knows when the price will go up. But the longer you pay storage rent the higher the price needs to go to make up for the expenses of storing. 6 months in and your at $24,000 in rent, that is 1/4 of the cost of building these bins. So 6 months of paying someone to store your grain pays for 25 percent of these bins. Now spread those savings over the life of the bins (possibly 100 years) and you are way ahead. Now the other thing to think about is efficiency during harvest, the last thing a farmer wants is combines parked in the field waiting for trucks to return from hauling to the local elevator. It can get busy during harvest and trucks are slow to return to the field. Storage on the farm prevents this from happening so harvest can continue without shutdowns. Another thing is if you haul to a local elevator to store, you are committed to selling with them. If their prices are not as competitive as another facility you cannot get your grain back to sell somewhere else. Once it is dumped it is permanently stored and the clock starts ticking as to when to pull the trigger to sell to avoid rent. I've personally seen the price change more than a dollar in 6 months of waiting to sell, at 50k bushels that is $50,000! That buys a bin in one year! One more thing, you get discounted heavily for grain that is too high in moisture. If we are in a pinch and need to harvest wet grain to avoid an upcoming storm, we can and store it in these bins and turn the fans on to dry it down to an acceptable level eliminating dockage when it comes time to sell. Hopefully this helps shed some understanding as to why we store on our farms.

[@tuddley]

The acoustics are so good, Farmer Derek had a choir sing in his new bin kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6PNmqtqabatfLM

[@shopshop144]

@@WelkerFarms Thanks, that's a very good explanation. I guess like many aspects of farming (and business) the key is having the capital to pay up front to allow flexibility in the future; costs money to make money. How much storage do you have on your farm and what % of your hoped for harvest can yo store? It seems like you've got alot of bins in different parts. Now, about those bolts! Have the fish been let out of the garage, free to work on their summer tans?

[@LKSimbalvr]

guessing 1,700 bolts per bin

[@philipharper7509]

Also, the cost that goes into two machines like their newer combines is astronomical. If you keep those out of the weather/sun, the savings are unbeatable. The weather is very unforgiving on equipment. Therefore being able to store the equipment inside is a money maker in itself! 👍🏻

[@brentfettkether8142]

Worked on a bin crew (Iowa) a few summers ago. The hydraulic jacks were standard on our crew. Very rewarding when bin is finished and always able to drive past and say you helped construct that.

[@brittblanton8342]

Thanks guys for the great video it was awesome to see how they put the bins up. I know what you are talking about when you said it smells like money, back when I farmed I had a 520 ft by 40 ft poultry house and when I would clean it out and spread the manure on my pasture and hay ground that was what I told my neighbors that it smells like money because it saved me a lot of money on fertilizer 👍

[@9856CB]

So that’s what that top step of the latter is for🤪. And there’s nothing that smells better than horse manure in the morning. Just a thought brings back memories. When I was a teenager I brought home three or four truckloads and spread it in our backyard just before winter and by spring time we had the best lawn in the neighborhood.

[@MrJerryjam]

I am glad that God has blessed all of you by helping bring the good rains this year. When one looks at all the dollars spent on various projects; It makes one wonder how long will it take to pay for everything. You must have some really good tax and accounting guys as well as good financers. God can do anything. Keep praising Him and keep up the faith

[@RobertWelkerFarmerBob]

👍

[@deanraugust9378]

Good job 👍 really appreciate the fact you didn’t hide the slight mistake of hole in building, shit happens then you fix it. Welker integrity,morals,hard work ethic and honesty will live on to next generation Welkers. As your neighbor 4 hours to the north and 4th generation doing a lot of the same daily life I salute you and thank you Scott and Nick for sharing. Also a big congrats to mom and Dad Welker and they can be proud to pass the torch and grandparent which means they get to enjoy life while observing next 2 generations carry on a long standing family tradition farming. I look forward to meeting in person one day and thanking you all for sharing, it is amazing to know and have confirmation that we are not alone in how we think,care,work,enjoy, and have faith.

[@gregbromley152]

Nick!! Scott did a thing. With the thing. Seriously guys, I've been looking forward to seeing those bins go up for what seems like a really long time. Glad to see that project coming together.

[@darrelfuhrman8217]

Scott and Nick I think that you will love those Westeal bins. We have 2, wish that we had more. Our Westeals are 10k, I really love their doors, no tools need to close or open them. No air leaks. When you run your fans, I would recommend that you open the lid 2 to 4 links of the chain. If you do not open the lid to let the heat & moisture out above the vents, it runs down the side wall. Enjoy your Westeals! I know that I do. Hello from north east Montana. Opheim.

[@WelkerFarms]

Hey thanks for the advice and may you have a huge crop this year!

[@rickwoodvine.7529]

Morning Nick and Scott, back in the 90s I worked for a bin building company. We would build for grain elevators that unload into train cars. We traveled all over the US. We did Sukup bins. And other bins, from 5k too million bushel bins lot of fun building them. Good times great friends. Can't wait for the grain leg to go up next and harvest to go in. Great Video again, Rooster J Acres Middletown California

[@tinajackson944]

Awwww, that little baby fox was so cute!!! Mama is out hunting and will be back to nurse it soon. Great stinky video...lol

[@andywilliams7162]

I live in PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ,on the East Coast of CANADA. My Cousin sell Grain Tanks. I worked with him when all over the Maritimes. We put some BIG ONE 10 RINGS. IT WAS fun to put them up. Good Luck with yours!!

[@davidschlecht3016]

Very interesting to watch the raising of the bins.A costly venture but necessary to bank the commodities that will be sold in good condition and be able to get the tools of the trade into storage and out of the weather.Looking good!👍😀

[@Varrig]

That is a really cool design for the bins! Leg Arms until the bin is filled up it is a great place for a song! Time to practice! Take care and God Bless!

[@artayers2372]

I had never seen a grain bin erected. I've cleaned plenty of them out, but never seen one being put up. Thank you for sharing!!!

[@WelkerFarms]

Thanks for watching!

[@robertcornell9308]

Lucky ducks have hydraulic jacks! We had hand jacks and they had different speed winches! It was quite interesting to keep the bins level, when raising and lowering!😬

[@stevenpdxedu]

Thank you Scott for bringing us along. So glad to see you're getting just the right kind of rain at the right times. It's gonna be a good yield for you I just know it. Can't wait for you to fill those bins and pile tons on the ground. Welkers Rule!

[@retiaryworm4714]

Seeing those clouds in those time lapses are just jaw dropping beautiful

[@bradh7472]

I look forward to all your videos because it brings normalcy back for me, working from home.

[@WelkerFarms]

Good to hear!

[@stuartroland9605]

Hello Legarms ,what a great video .It was really good seeing the big bins go up .Hay don't sweat the little hole in the side of the shed ,from what I have seen you will have little problem fixing it .That little fox sure was neat . Take care ,See Ya .👍👍😊😊✌

[@bigfootbubba1425]

17:50 A hammer, a old licence plate and some of that grain bin putty and it's good as new, and you have a cool story to tell at night at the camp fire by the lake house.

[@W1LD_HAIR]

In the last video I was so excited to see how grain bins are set up

[@mr.torgue4768]

With that new legarms-hole, you can easy check what machinery you have stored inside without opening the heavy doors. Sounds like a win to me.

[@JacksonGuitarsPlayer03]

Very cool old horns. Hop in a old truck with a cool horn and a good old mechanical engine... it’s just fantastic. We have a 85 Kenworth W900A wrecker with a Big Cam Cummins. Awesome engine and truck got a sweet horn

[@ronaldpietrowski7046]

I have watched bins going up a couple of times still very interesting every time.

[@pennyhaldeman5626]

I was so hoping you would sing in your new bin, maybe next time. Thanks for sharing.

[@woodyw3718]

God Bless you for what you do for the USA and the Whole World. You guys are awesome!

[@RobertWelkerFarmerBob]

👍

[@nitrodad15]

Back in 2011 I help a farmer in ND build a 25k bussel bin. My ears are still ringing. A job best left to the pros for sure.

[@danfinley3690]

It is so amazing how those go up thanks for taking us along for another beautiful video and bless you guys out there

[@brichter4669]

Seeing the manure spreader brought back memories of where I grew in a rural part of NW PA. It was a little community of about 75 people. A dairy farmer lived out the road and planted a lot of corn fields to feed the cows. Every spring he would spread cow manure on the fields before plowing them. Man...it would stink bad in the area for about a couple of weeks. My mom wouldn't even put the laundry outside to air dry, the smell was so bad. Washed the clothes at home and went to the laundromat to dry them.

[@erwinlau1353]

I wish Wall-Grain could set these up in the states as well. Our crew can set one of these bins up from start to finish in less then 12 hours. Love building Westeels hands down my favorite bin to build number one quality bin right there . Its good to see these things starting to be built more in the states now they used to not be very popular there. They are very popular up here in Western Canada

[@RobertWelkerFarmerBob]

They look impressive

[@bpaul1201awesome]

Like the new bins, they are looking great! Hoping for a good harvest for you all so we can see Hollywood flabbergasted when you run out of storage again and have to use the big machine barn. lol BTW Leg Arms we need a nice singing clip of you in those bins before they are filled up.

[@southjerseysound7340]

Leg arms,the sealant is called butyl rubber and it comes in all sorts of sizes. It's great stuff and stays pliable. Once you have used it you'll wonder how you ever lived without it 😉

[@johnirwin1837]

The company I use to work for here in southern Indiana put up 2 500,000 bus. bins to hold soybeans that feed their soybean processing plant. They used the bean meal in their chicken feed and sold the oil.

[@robertbradford2734]

You all are a pleasure to watch...👌

[@brianmccrackenonwheelzmccr7089]

Really awesome, thank you to you and your family. cant wait for harvest time

[@WelkerFarms]

Our pleasure!

[@tonymckeage1028]

Thanks Guys Great Vlog... good to see the bins going up Thanks Tony

[@WelkerFarms]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

I've built houses and commercial buildings most of my life,and I've never saw anything built quite like that.Very cool video,and the little fox priceless.!!!

[@LKSimbalvr]

awesome to see those bins being built. you should restore that international dump truck one day. and your loader could do with a paint job, perhaps paint it red to make it look like a case.

[@kagapeme]

Is it wrong that i'm super excited for you guys to get these bins put up? So happy for you guys!

[@Buck1954]

Sort of reminds me of my Industrial/Institutional greenhouse construction days. Speaking of manure, I have a friend with a large farm in Central Texas. They have a dump truck fleet that collects all of the Chicken poop from their county, and surrounding counties, the spread it over the entire range of grass. Chicken poop has it's own special flavor.

[@paulechols]

The Fox (Kit??) Was super cool!! Right living Leg Arms.

[@fleminj2pa]

That camera shot with the mountains in the distant horizon is awesome!

[@adrianhutchin4925]

Great video, in th euk we dont have that many grain bins so seeing how they are built is great, good work and keep it up !

[@MukYJ]

6:32 that looks like butyl tape which is commonly used in the RV industry for sealing outside fixtures and the like. Seals well and won’t dry out so you can get it apart if you need to.

[@matthewhburch6198]

The new bins are impressive! Just out of curiosity, is a small water tower planned in the near future so you can dramatically increase the speed that you can load your flatbed tanker? If you can gravity feed water into the trailer, the well pump can refill the tower while you are doing work.

[@RobertWelkerFarmerBob]

No tower planned

[@stumpy2816]

Good job Leg Arms. Awesome site out on the plains.

[@danielenneking1681]

Been waiting to see them go up. Miss the northwest. You guys help with my home sickness.

[@sniperdafox7372]

Daniel Enneking good they are the cure

[@xcalibertrekker6693]

Very good balance of many of the different things that happen on a farm.

[@jefflee5047]

Very Good and Very Interesting Video Scott! Thankyou for your time and effort in sharing it.

[@jonathanosborne9889]

Nice video leg arms God bless you all welkers.👍

[@Captdal]

This video is about time !! Been up for a long time ! THANKS

[@augustreil]

Legarms...The Fox Whisperer ! Thumbs up.

[@mikekahl5609]

Back in April a farm here in PA. a farm was put up a bin when a storm came up a blew it over, destroying the bin and damaging a barn it fell on. They were trying to anchor it down but not fast enough when the wind hit.

[@bonelesswhiskey2865]

Leg Arms is clearly more man than any of us. Pets wild porcupines, and Baby Foxes like they are his pets. If wild animals let you pet them, that shows his body language is gentle as all heck.

[@74LAnderson]

Amazing to see how times have changed and jobs like this get easier with a little technology. I can't imagine what farmers back in the day had to go through to erect these big ol bins! Beautiful edition to the farm.

[@randallparker8477]

Hand powered jacks, and horse powered cranes.

[@edhaight9903]

I helped a friend relocate 2 bins. They used a tripod jack with a cable winch to disassemble and reassemble them. You really have to be together when cranking on the winch.

[@Northern_Farmer]

Steel bins haven’t been around all that long really...early 80 is when you saw the 2000 bushel bins around here...all the bins were wooden

[@notvaporlocked5479]

Congratulations on the new bins, exciting times.

[@SaltyTubers]

Great stuff guys! Thanks for sharing all this with us, even if LegArms is too humble to admit he lifted the 25k bushel bin.

[@philipharper7509]

Westeel is unheard of in southern, IL! Cool to see a different brand with high quality

[@puirYorick]

I remember them being branded as Westeel-Rosco back in the day. I assume it's the same company.

[@harveystephens6115]

Nice bins. Good footage on little fox. Beans looked good already bushing out

[@sashcraft51]

I feel educated on raising grainbins. Fun vlog.

[@cedricbroussard8738]

That is amazing to see how the bins going up!!

[@jeffgannon1]

Can’t even imagine the numbers of bolts, nuts and washers involved. So cool!

[@fleetinflocks5215]

A very large amount

[@paulprigge1209]

Beats the old hand-crank bin Jack's but they also need to put a better loading and unloading system in overhead towers with dump pits.

[@jonathanbarron5523]

Actually hardly any washers just for the steps

[@cableandchain]

i built grain bins here in texas late 80s we had camper hand crank jacks lol

[@clinthochrein888]

Pretty awesome system of putting up the grain bins.

[@walterkervin9515]

My phone was broken for a couple of months and when I got it back I saw how clean your farm is compared to what it was like

[@robertreznik9330]

I am only guessing that you put on less than 70# of Urea or what was in the soil. With your good soil moisture your yield limitation will mosty be plant nutrients. Have you ever streamed on N with the Apache sprayer? Then again you may not want a large crop of wheat on the ground.

[@RobertWelkerFarmerBob]

Put on 100# . Have stream 28% but didn't pencil out do to lack of timely rain

[@robertreznik9330]

@@RobertWelkerFarmerBob Robert I am saying you might need more N if it has been raining often and the forecast is for more. Have you ever used tissue test to find out how you are doing with the total program. If other nutrients are in short supply adding N will not increase yield. When going from a tillage program to no till the crop can be low because you are sequestering available nutrients in soil organic matter from crop residue decay. Putting it into a savings bank. In your area with No-Till, OM can have a half life of 25 years to be mineralized in the future into soluble usable plant nutrients.

[@radialorbits]

Birds can nest on the vent mesh and drop droppings inside the bin. Mesh should be angled backwards

[@johnertel2957]

Scott, if you don’t make some mistakes from time to time it means you’re not doing anything. Shake it off, fix it, move forward, you’ll do better next time. The organic matter and nutrients in life stock manure is truly the “good stuff” for crops including grass. It was a cool little visit with the fox. Did you find out what does the fox say?

[@beaverstuff]

The construction and manure spreading with interesting, but, the short piece about the fox was great. The last time you showed the Old Man's dog chasing jack rabbits. These pieces are a nice break!!

[@zschil89]

BEAUTIFUL! Can't wait to see them finished!

[@pacificcoastpiper3949]

Hey leg arms, if you like that empty bin echo, I think you should watch some videos of people holding concerts in empty grain bins, it sounds heavenly!!

[@Adam_Poirier]

Oh man Scott you got bit by the sticking out axle shaft! I have done that a couple times myself in my lifetime when I was younger one of the hired hands on the farm had a brand new truck and I put a nice slice in his front fender with the axle shaft of the 4010 John Deere😂 that’s why you gotta run duals just to keep that from happening

[@Towball]

That was one very interesting vlog . Great channel guys

[@johnloken1445]

Great to see those bins going up, know this has been a goal for your family,

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video Welkers awesome looking bins

[@jazko]

The fox was awesome!

[@patcb829]

Surprised Nick didn't do more filming there, figured he would love the light coming off those bins. Different type of golden hour.

[@mtcelticharper]

He was working at the lake house while the bins went up.

[@heimracing57]

The bin jacks they used are manufactured in my hometown here in Kansas! Friends with the guy who builds them

[@RobertWelkerFarmerBob]

Cool

[@acgrand2553]

I grew up in between livestock farms had cattle to the East pigs to the west and horses and a mishmash of others north and south so no matter which direction the wind was blowing we got the full effect of it.....lol

[@rem32001]

Nice to see the kind of behind the scenes of the farm. Waiting on the Lake house videos Nick...... Scott we all make mistakes, I'm sure you patched that building in a few min. No video???

[@dannypeaslee1789]

Great bins i love them easy to work with. God bless welkers and have fun at the lake house

[@watahyahknow]

bet it would sound great when you record a drumkit inside one of these empty bins , makes the drums sound huge

[@patrickburgmeier7902]

Scott I hope that you went with full floor aeration and self sweep. 1 60ft bin would have been a little more reasonable in price. Maybe not. Full length inside ladder. Nice touch. You built them right.

[@RobertWelkerFarmerBob]

We did

[@danieljohnston5306]

Built Grain Bins for summer work in high school in Montana. Fry you leg on those things wearing cut offs... yes, we wore those in the 80’s....lol. Oh and LEG ARMS BROKE THE QUONSET! Sorry, I’m a tattletale!... lol

[@suzylarry1]

first time I ever saw this being done, thank you ...now I know

[@josh5915]

When you see the top of the bin on the ground it looks like the rest of the bin sunk into the ground. Looked pretty trippy! Also that baby fox was heckin cute!

[@jameslcoble248]

The bins look excellent. I do the same on the garden here, but I have chicken manure lol. Ready to see the next restoration project y’all have in mind as well. Be neat to see the dump truck restored and matching in color of the other international

[@Gixzer04]

Sealant is called “ butyl” it’s an insane weather proofing material that allows expansion n contraction however maintain a water tight seal. It’s sticky stuff for sure. Awesome video guys 👌

[@blakedismuke3656]

Redhawkfarmsllc looked like plumbers putty

[@kylegibbs243]

I worked at my local mack dealer, and i washed a manure spreader not understanding what it was. Yeah. Hindsight im glad i didnt know before hand...

[@andrewmckee8874]

Horse manure is really good for gardens especially orchards. Get some cooking apple trees planted

[@bigunone]

How much extra do they charge when you try to help

[@BruceBergman]

If you are actually helpful, it's free.☺️

[@farmernige]

Will you add more bins and grain leg with drive over to unload? A overhead bin to load semis quickly?

[@RobertWelkerFarmerBob]

Might happen

[@DS-yz1nn]

Just so you guys you one of one is going nuts with the new shoes on tik tok glad i listen to iowa am radio

[@tomhill4765]

I was a Hydraulic Specialist in th USAF. We used a similar hydraulic units to jack large aircraft. We called them "Hydraulic Jacking manifolds.

[@markreetz1001]

Great new bins. was wondering if you were going with floor and unloading auger, etc. Good call. LegArms, it's a good thing you don't raise livestock! The smell would be there all the time!

[@RobertWelkerFarmerBob]

Yes we are

[@chuxtuff]

Educational Farm Video is what this one is!! I now know more about how they build grain bins then I ever imagined. So if you guys wanted a larger bin do they just keep going up?? Or do they only go up as high as these new ones do so they have larger diameters for larger bins instead of higher heights?? And when you purchase one is installation included or is that extra?? Thanks you guys!! It's raining in western Washington here so there's more rain coming for you guys too...

[@RobertWelkerFarmerBob]

Install is extra and many different sizes

[@garysisk3431]

great video, really neat engineering on those bins

[@w.yeomans7127]

Hey Gentlemen, Question? Why not add another row or 2? Is it a weight issue? The thickness of the slab? Wind sheer from Leg Arms walking by too close?

[@andrewruble7706]

So Legarms that truck was truly full of ****!! LOL Great Video. Love seeing the new bins go up. By the way I think flex seal tape is just the ticket to fix the "little" scratch on the building. Thanks for sharing.

[@JesseEder]

Another cracking video those bins look amazing