Randy from Fieldrows
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248 appearances
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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It's a big piece of metal. It is. It's pretty massive. We've got three different sizes, a 14-inch, a 16-inch, and an 18-inch.
So anytime you've got two legs on a farm, it does make it a little easier to direct your grain where you want it. If you don't have it, it makes it kind of difficult. You've either got to use a combination of multiple distributors or some two-way valves or three-way valves after that distributor.
And the nice thing about this is you bring two legs down into it, so it ties both bucket elevators into one distributor.
correct like this has been done for years correct yeah your first yes this is our first to market with it it has been out there for several years um you know we're just uh obviously as we're growing we're finding these needs to become more and more and this was an opportunity for us to grow and expand so in the past you would have probably purchased that from a secondary source and then
added that because you needed that as part of your whole suit of grain setup right you do you need that you need to have an option and what we found is when we did purchase them there were some pretty long and extensive lead times with them we thought hey this is an opportunity where we can come to market with something
have something just as good or better than the competition, and cut down on those lead times that people are facing.
Well, it is actually built in a facility in the Ukraine. Oh, okay. We've partnered, got a manufacturing plant there, so we're letting them build them, bringing them over here, and then we're... being able to market them here in the United States.
That's exactly right. So how long have you been with Sukup, Randy? So I've been with Sukup Manufacturing for 24 years. So kind of started off in the engineering side, on the design side. I went into sales and service, and now I kind of head up the whole product line of material handling.
Absolutely. What we try to do is find out what the needs are, what the problems are that farmers are facing, and then introduce a new innovative product to the market to solve all those problems.
Well, there's some gearboxes up there, you know, with C-Face electric motors on them. So they're pretty reliable. No different than what you've got probably running your bucket elevators, to be honest. And then all the controls for it are actually, you know, just wires running up the tower conduit. Controls would be on the ground. So it's basically, you never have to get up there to do anything.
Yep.
and cleaned and shoveled many a grain bins that i wish i had a paddle sweeping yeah that has been one of our fastest growing products at every farm show i've been at it's probably the most talked about thing there especially if you get somebody that um has a family member that's maybe had an accident or maybe themselves have had an accident with a traditional sweep inside of a grain bin um
Some guys come in and they're hacking and they've been in dust so long that it's just really starting to affect their lungs and their health. So when they see a product like this where it basically keeps them completely out of that grain bin and they don't have to get in there to do anything.
I tell you what, I go to a lot of farm shows, and the best thing that I can do is stand there, talk to the paddle sweep, and I get a farmer that comes up that's got one, comes up, that's the best thing I've ever invested in. You know what, that right there,
It is. And nobody likes it. And I tell you what, the commercial market has, you know, with the whole OSHA and zero entry laws that came into effect probably like eight, eight, nine years ago. That really changed how we clean out grain bins.
Correct. Yeah, this one is meant for the farms. It's not a commercial one. I mean, we've got a commercial one out there. You know, you get some big bins, you're going to take more than just a little farm paddle sweep to do it. And we do have those large ones available as well. We just aren't displaying those here today.
You can, yeah. So we can go into, if you've got another brand of unload out there, we do make some retrofit kits that are available. You'll have to probably call in. Now, one thing to be a little careful of is I don't know how well some of those other brands are made, so we're not going to warranty if they've got a gearbox problem or something. That's on them, not us, so...
We are. I mean, there's still quite a bit of interest. I mean, you know, downpricing. usually for grain bin sales isn't a bad thing. Let's hold our grain. We need to store more of it and wait for a better day, huh? Yep. I mean, we've got to have an uptick at some point, right? We're going to have to. But, you know, the downtrend isn't necessarily a bad thing.
There are, you know, obviously people out there that still have a lot of last year's corn, so they're looking at grain bins and putting some more storage up for this year, so they've got somewhere to put that grain. So what else are you excited to talk about at the show this year? Oh, we've got a new triple run conveyor here. That's a new receiving low profile conveyor.
We've had that out for two, three years. We've also got our full heat mix flow dryer on display here. So this is I think the second show we've had that at. So definitely stop by the booth and check that thing out. That's really an innovative product with the whole mix flow drying systems available.
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