Inside the Co-op: Inside a Grain Elevator

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I drive by several grain elevaters daily, ive always wondered how they operated. Now i know and it makes since. Thank you for the education

From california. Read a book with the word grain elevator in it. Watched this video to find out wtf a grain elevator is. Now I know. Thanks! To the point, easy to follow.

I work at River Rail elevator in KCK. You guys do a good job keeping the bin floor swept up. Cool to see inside another elevator. Its not an easy business. Best of luck to you guys. Be safe.

Thank you! Grew up near elevators, people described how the machinery worked, but this visual explanation finally helped me understand!

Much modernized since 1970 when my first job out of high school was working in one of these. We used a lot more auger systems at the top.No modern computers either. A very challenging, dangerous job which I think paid about $2 an hour. Facing a mandatory draft I joined the Air force the next year. Good video explaining the process.

Not sure if this is even still here. My gg grandfather was the manager of this co-op from 1903 until 1969 when it closed. He told a story of killing a guy that worked for him here. Albert Bickford was his name. Albert came to work drunk all the time, my ggg had his fill of it one April day, when Albert came stumbling in to the main entry way. my ggg threw a clevis at Albert striking him in the head. He was bleeding profusley but still alive and enraged. Albert pulled a cycle down from the wall and ran at my ggg, in doing so fell face down in a pile of grain. My ggg was very angry and picked up a Muller Stone and beat Albert repeatidly in the back of the head until dead. My ggg being the manager of this mill, getting his employees to help dispose of the body. It is said that theydug a 12-foot-deep hole with a Fordson Tractor and blade, dumped the wooden barrel holding Bickford's remains into the pit, and then piled more than one dozen wooden barrels on top of Bickford's, before filling the hole in with dirt to cover up the evidence. Many residents were questioned as to the disapearance of Bickford, but everyone remained silent. Until now. Scott Louser of Minot ND whose ggg workrd for my ggg, knows the story and also knows the exact burial location of Bickford. Louser has spoken out many times but to deaf ears. He is now being heard. Louser states the body is buried exactly as described, and is under the grain mill. I'm not sure is this Grain elevator still here in Arena ND?

Nice. I grew up in the Twin Ports (Duluth, Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin) on the western tip of Lake Superior. I have since moved back. There are grain elevators on the harbor waterfront. April through December ocean going ships (salties) load products from the elevators bound for Europe and Africa. Pretty neat to see how they move product around coming and going. My hobby is model railroads and I'm scratch building some elevators so this helped me out alot, lol. Thanks :)

Greetings from Moscow. I must say, you guys have some nice facilities from driving From Moscow to Deerfield, Lakin, or GC.

Great video. This suburban boy always wondered what went on in there. Way more complicated than I realized. Thanks for making this.

Thanks , we have learnt so much on the working of grain elevator complex . I am from India and I have not such such grain elevators . Now on visit , I have seen them in Minnesota, Wisconsin etc . Now ,I have learnt of their working . Thanks a lot GCOP

Excellent video. The elevator tech really knows his stuff. Id love to have him on my crew!!~ He a good man. Wonderful. Thank you.

This is cool. I work for a fab shop and a lot of our work is from Bunge; a large grain elevator in Decatur Indiana I work in the shop and rarely get to go on job sites but I've always been curious on the internal workings of these facilities that I make so many parts for. Kind of ironic he was showing the grain buggy and just a few weeks ago I made a single new wheel for Bunge's tripper buggy with a pulley attached and that sucker cost them over $3000!

Dude. I started to zone out as I always do, and I look up and the elevator was exploding and I FREAKED 😂😂😂 glad that wasn’t y’all. Js - also thank you for this information

Being a farmer myself I knew the moisture testing and how the weight works and the bins and leg but never knew about the distributor or the other stuff the guy talks about

Interesting, do you have any problems with dust, when you put corn to the car ? If have, i think i know how to solve this problam

Do farmers store their grain at your site too? Or do grain elevators just buy the grain and store it for themselves?

Who's here after the blast? This elevator actually helped deflect the blast a bit.

Nice shots of the top of these buildings - a part rarely seen on a grain elevator. Nice video!

Great video! I am building a grain elevator module for our modular railway layout and your video explaining how grain elevators work will help me a lot. Thanks for sharing it.