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| I use to work for a dealer and Sukup redesigned their sweeps around 2010 or 2012 I can’t remember and the dealer I worked for had sold probably over 150 sukup bins by the time I left and we never worked on them compared to brocks which were a joke. Sukup has the highest galv rating in the industry and a minimum steel quality at 70 thousand psi I believe and the highest bolt coating ratings etc. (basically they are as high or higher on almost every rating in the industry) compared to everyone else. Their roofs seem to be stronger than most as we did millwright. Sioux roofs flex the worst in my opinion and we actually replaced roofs on Sioux quite frequently. Brock bins in my service experience were always lighter and their bin anchor system was a joke and wind storms would take them first on most sites with gsi or sukup next to them but the finished product was nice. Sukup and Gsi were very similar but Sukups roofs seemed stronger. Springland makes a great unload as we put some of those in but the springland and new sukup u trough is very similar in design and the sukup will actually move more grain had them running side by side. Was on a site once reclaiming into a pit and was overflowing the reclaim with the sukup I believe their gate is bigger and they have gates on both sides of the center gearbox when springland did not. Anyway that’s what I had for an opinion. The hd perforated floor for sukup is the same as Brock’s hd perf which are the best floors in the industry but Brock’s floor stands are better. Gsi might of just came out with a hd perforated floor also I haven’t been around sales for a few year now just make sure it’s 3.5” plank and not 7” as 7” perforated plank just isn’t strong enough to span 7” and will collapse in the center of the floor plank on bigger bins with higher sidewalls. Most important aspect on any bin is look at their concrete work or ask neighbors that have their bins. If the concrete has footings down a ways into the ground and how precise their pad is ontop. This all allows the floor to sit level and the sweep to work the best. You don’t know how many times we were called out for floor issues or sweep issues on things we didn’t pour and it wasn’t necessary the floor or sweep it was the concrete varied an 1” or 2 across the pad. It’s way more common than a guy realizes when dealers have sub contract concrete guys. | |
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Which brand grain bin to put up? Anyone used Lankenau construction in South Dakota?
