Grain Vac Repair Specialist

Grain Vac Repair Specialist GRAIN HANDLING Miscellaneous 19-1-4 If you're in the dark about where to go for parts or repair of your grain vac, look no farther. Canadian specialist Glen Haugerud can answer all your questions. "Grain vacs need repairs after 10 or 12 years," says Glen Haugerud, who runs a grain vac repair business out of Craik, Sask. He pulls in jobs from all over west-ern Canada and the western U.S. "Three or four Canadian manufacturers and a couple of U.S. manufacturers have gone out of business in the last several years and a lot of farmers don't know where to go for parts or repairs anymore," Haugerud says. "That's what prompted me to go into business two years ago." Glen's Grain Vac Services completely refurbishes about six grain vacs a month and does other service and repair work as well. "I don't know of anyone else who's providing a service like his in the U.S. or Canada," "says Peter Kingma, U.S. district manager of Walinga's Agri-Vac Division. "He does everything a manufacturer does when they repair or refurbish grain vacs, but his overhead's lower so he can do it for a lot less money." For example, a complete refurbish job on a Walinga 510 vac runs $3,995 (Canadian). That includes rebuilding the machine's positive displacement pump, installing a hydraulic truck loading kit to replace its original jack and flex pipe kit, putting on a pipe carrying package, increasing tank capacity by modifying the inside, widening all inlet outlets to 5 in. dia. instead of 4 in. to increase capacity, speeding up the blower from 2,900 to 3,400 cfm's, adjusting air locks, and repainting it. "Most grain vacs just require that the blower be rebuilt," he says. That'll cost $1,500 to $2,500, depending on make and model and condition of the blower on arrival. Occasionally, air locks have to be re-built for a cost of around $1,000. Like-wise, sometimes timing gears have to be replaced for a cost of between $230 and $1,300, depending on make and model. "We work on all models and give cost estimates once we've seen the machine," says Haugerud, noting that he's had ma-chines shipped to him from hundreds of miles away. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Glen's Grain Vac Services, Box 444, Craik, Sask. SOG OVO Canada

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