AGRICULTURE DOORS

Kansas and Missouri farmland stretches for miles and these big fields require big machinery and even bigger doors! This 50' x 18' Hydraulic installed by Koehn Construction fits the bill. Nearly all their buildings are fitted with large Schweiss hydraulic doors. Koehn Construction specializes in steel farm buildings and grain handling systems.

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Koehn Farm Doors

Craig Beranek knew someday he would be ordering a Schweiss Door. Beranek loves to tinker with automotive repair and maintenance - it's always been sort of a hobby for him. He recently built a beautiful 54' x 72' cold storage building with connected shop in rural Lafayette, MN with a 18' x 16' strap bifold door. The door is lined with Schweiss interlocking insulation panels that provide a clean look from the inside.

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Beranek Farm Shop

Years ago Western Wisconsin Ag Supply placed orders for Schweiss bifold cable doors that eventually wore out. The reason they wore out was due to fine caustic and corrosive fertilizer dust particles that have a tendency, like acid, to eat their way through metal.

They liked what they saw in the original Schweiss bifold doors and replaced them with bifold liftstrap doors. All three bifold doors they replaced were 16' wide x 17.10' tall and have automatic latching systems and are clad with white polycarbonate panels, matching the same style as on the plant tower above the door.

According to Dana Lansing, Mgr. of Western Wisconsin Ag Supply (WWAS), the previous doors saw decades of hard use before needing replacement.

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Western Wisconsin Ag Supply

Central Region Cooperative (CRC) in Fairfax is just one of its many sites serving the agricultural community with fertilizer, feed, seed and energy products along with numerous marketing options to assist farmers in running a productive operation.

The newly constructed Fairfax CRC plant consists of three buildings that have four Schweiss bifold liftstrap doors that are all 16' x 18', large enough for a semi to come in one end, load or unload, and drive through the opposite side at the fertilizer receiving and fertilizer load-out bays. The bifold doors are equipped with the new auto strap latch systems and have dustproof motors and electrical in compliance with National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) standards.

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Fairfax, MN Fertilizer Plant

When you farm big with big equipment you need big machine sheds with big doors. Schweiss Doors filled that bill over the years by manufacturing large bifold liftstrap doors for Huisman Farms of Atwater, Minnesota.

Tim and Jim Huisman of Atwater, MN have three Schweiss bifold liftstrap farm doors. The largest is 50' x 18' and a 45' x 18' and 36' x 17'. The interior of the big door is customized with John Deere green paint, black liftstraps and has auto latches and remote opener.

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Huisman Farms

Drive-In-and-Out Hangar Saves Time and Money. Agtegra Cooperative Aerial Spraying Division in harrold, SD has two Schweiss 70' x 14' hydraulic doors, one on each end of theri 100' x 140' hangar. The drive in-and-out system saves valuable time and money when reloading chemicals and refueling any one of their five Air Tractors.

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Agtegra Coop

Hanson Silo Company has come a long way since those early days of just erecting silos. Current CEO, Gregg Hanson has had the foresight to diversify the company's list of products and along with that a large new manufacturing building was erected using Hanson concrete panels.

The new plant expansion has a 58' Schweiss bifold door. Another good example of foresight was Gregg's decision to build a new plant a couple of years ago incorporating the Hanson Neopor 4" thick R-24 insulated concrete panels that were poured directly from the in-house automated concrete batch plant and put in place. The 70 ft. x 180 ft. building has a 37 ft. ceiling capable of housing a huge crane. A 58' x 31' 9" Schweiss bifold liftstrap / autolatch door on the east side opens wide to enable the crane to lift the heavy concrete forms making them ready to be delivered to waiting customers wherever they may be in the United States.

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Hanson Silo

It stands tall, nearly 40' to the roof line. It's big, like 120' x 200'. Concrete walls standing 16' tall wrap all four sides of this huge structure. And it holds nearly 1 million bushels of corn. We're talking about the huge feed storage structure at Revier Cattle Company, a beef operation with feedlot capacity of about 16,000 head. But what makes this feed storage especially unique are two steel hydraulic doors, each 15' 6" wide and 15' tall and positioned at both ends of this feed storage structure.

So why these big and very sturdy hydraulic doors? General Manager Tom Revier simply said, “These doors provide containment for the grain without any loss of space, plus once we get enough grain out of eithe rend of the structure, we can then drive in with our power scoops to load directly into our feeding wagons.”

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Revier Cattle Co.