They Buy Used Harvestore Silos

They Buy Used Harvestore Silos CROP STORAGE Silos 50 Silo Supreme Inc and its sister company Silo J M Lambert Inc are Canadian-based companies that buy and sell second hand Harvestore silos     According to sales rep Francois Dumont Silo Supreme Inc purchases silos from farmers in the eastern U S dismantles and transports them to its headquarters in Drummondville Quebec Then Silo J M Lambert Inc refurbishes and rebuilds them on farms in Canada      We transform them into top unloading silos for our customers the majority of whom are in Eastern Ontario Quebec and the Maritimes Dumont explains Top unloading silos are very effective and low-cost requiring less than $500 per year to operate On the other hand bottom unloading silos cost farmers between $4 000 and $6 000 per year for maintenance and replacement parts Bottom unloading silos are best suited for high moisture corn     To un-build a silo the company s crew tears it down sheet by sheet using a set of jacks û in the reverse order of how they were built Silo Supreme has done this with structures up to 110 ft high and 31 ft in diameter     The workers load the dismantled silo pieces onto trucks and they re transported to the Silo Supreme yard to be checked over Then they re taken to their new home While resurrecting the structure one piece at a time the crew can make them a bit bigger or smaller if necessary     A 20 by 80-ft silo takes the company 3 to five days to disassemble and then five to seven days to rebuild including the time that s required to clean between the sheets and apply new silicone      We pay good money for large silos - 25 by 60 ft and higher - because the heavy thicker sheets are in demand when we enlarge a silo Dumont says In Quebec we build them up to 25 by 100 ft     The company has overseas markets for some of the dismantled structures They ve sold some to Finland France and Denmark according to Dumont      They re a very good structure The life of those silos is many generations he adds We ve taken some down that are 30 years old and they look like new when we rebuild them     The company also builds new concrete block silos and does on-site repairs for existing operational silos both Harvestore and concrete block silos Dumont says that buying a reconditioned Harvestore silo is a little bit more expensive than putting up a new concrete silo          Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Silo Supreme Harvestor Silo USA Division 4250 B Vachon St Drummondville Quebec Canada J2B 6V4 ph 819 850-1376; fax 819 474-8620; silosupreme@cgocable ca; www silojmlambert com

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