My first job was driving grain truck in 1970 at 16 years old, for a farmer near Kindred N.D. to the elevator in Horace. The crop was barley and the farmer's combine had no cab. Times have sure changed! Thanks for the tour Kerry.
Brought back memories. I drove grain trucks to the elevator in Saskatchewan in the early 70's. I did not have a drivers license so I had to park the truck outside the elevator door and have someone else drive it in.
Loved this. I worked in my local UGG in 1997 for Grade 10 co-op Ed. 2 years later they built a terminal. I had the same tuna can sample grabber 😂 My scale was a big sliding scale though. And I totally forgot about sifting the samples
My grandfather built one on his farm and had a pure seed cleaning plant within just north of Vulcan Alberta. Spent many many hours as a young boy to my teenage years working in it and on the farm miss him and the farm dearly. Whenever I'm in the Vulcan area I always stop at the farm (much changed now, but the elevator is still in use) and spend a few minutes in the yard.
We had this type of elevators here in Sweden also. And now it's the same thing. No farmer have the local to drive to. Even the mills are few and centralized. Here in Uppsala we have to tip the crops outdoor on a huge co-op concrete flat on the ground. There the huge entrepreneur driven trucks will fetch it and drive it to shipping bins at harbours or to the mills. We had before transports by small ships here in Uppsala at the huge co-op facility and adjacent the Farmer owned Nordmill and Lantmannen fodder factory was situated at private railroad spur also. Now it's a fancy apartment housing complex at the river Fyris and called 'Industry Town'. It was a lot better before! 😢 Thank you for this great upload // Uppsalahazze ❤
I worked in a Peavey elevator just like this one in north central Montana way back in 1975. The explanation of how these work is spot on. Thank for the memories.
I love these Prairie Sentinels. So glad to see them preserved. But I miss seeing the local freights picking up and setting out the box cars used for transport. Guess I'm just old!
Very good video. Thank you for all the information. I grew up on a farm and after high school I drove truck. I dumped a lot of loads of grain in elevators. A fair amount about how they worked I had no idea they floated.
Great video and explanation of what is in those big wood boxes! Hard to believe that with all the grain from so many farms that the RR couldn't make money hauling it. Where did the farmers go to hang out after closing? The coffee shop at the converted Cash Store?
You did a fantastic job explaining how the elevator works. The only thing you must have never loaded a box car. The last one I filled would hardly hold a cat. You patched the holes with cardboard that the RR gave you. Great job explaining 😊🎉
I agree with your boxcar statement, it took as long to patch them up as it did to load them. 😂 At the elevators I worked at we loaded refrigerator semi trucks with wheat too. Some of those trucks were full of holes as well. 😂
You know what Leduc is right? It’s French for John Wayne. My great grandfather was an elevator manager in Granum in the fifties. I remember going to watch the last one come down in the early nineties. It’s good to see a few still in use by local farmers in other towns. But there’s not many around anymore for sure.
My first job was driving grain truck in 1970 at 16 years old, for a farmer near Kindred N.D. to the elevator in Horace. The crop was barley and the farmer's combine had no cab. Times have sure changed! Thanks for the tour Kerry.
Brought back memories. I drove grain trucks to the elevator in Saskatchewan in the early 70's. I did not have a drivers license so I had to park the truck outside the elevator door and have someone else drive it in.
@@lastmanlost Thanks for sharing!
Very cool and informative thank you.
Loved this. I worked in my local UGG in 1997 for Grade 10 co-op Ed. 2 years later they built a terminal.
I had the same tuna can sample grabber 😂
My scale was a big sliding scale though.
And I totally forgot about sifting the samples
My grandfather built one on his farm and had a pure seed cleaning plant within just north of Vulcan Alberta. Spent many many hours as a young boy to my teenage years working in it and on the farm miss him and the farm dearly. Whenever I'm in the Vulcan area I always stop at the farm (much changed now, but the elevator is still in use) and spend a few minutes in the yard.
We had this type of elevators here in Sweden also. And now it's the same thing. No farmer have the local to drive to. Even the mills are few and centralized. Here in Uppsala we have to tip the crops outdoor on a huge co-op concrete flat on the ground. There the huge entrepreneur driven trucks will fetch it and drive it to shipping bins at harbours or to the mills.
We had before transports by small ships here in Uppsala at the huge co-op facility and adjacent the Farmer owned Nordmill and Lantmannen fodder factory was situated at private railroad spur also. Now it's a fancy apartment housing complex at the river Fyris and called 'Industry Town'.
It was a lot better before! 😢
Thank you for this great upload // Uppsalahazze ❤
Thank you for sharing 😀
I worked in a Peavey elevator just like this one in north central Montana way back in 1975. The explanation of how these work is spot on. Thank for the memories.
@@johnnmurray7488 I appreciate that, glad you enjoyed it
Awesome video! Glad the elevator is now preserved!
@@tootired76 glad you enjoyed it
What an incredible structure, thank yall for your efforts in saving it!
@@jermynpedretti4761 I agree, they’ve done a great job 👏
Thanks for a fairly comprehensive tour of a 70s elevator. Cheers 🇨🇦
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent presentation!
@@pat8988 Thank You 🙏🏼
Such an awesome piece of history.... Thanks for sharing...
I love these Prairie Sentinels. So glad to see them preserved. But I miss seeing the local freights picking up and setting out the box cars used for transport. Guess I'm just old!
We have ridden our bikes across Canada and the US and always liked seeing grain elevators !! This video was great!
Wow I remember going to a couple old elevators when I was a little boy and the memories are still fresh in my mind
Grew up in Grainton Nebraska on a wheat farm, this is a great video, a real slice of wheat farming life.
@@tompearson6022 Thanks Tom… 🙏🏼
Very good video. Thank you for all the information. I grew up on a farm and after high school I drove truck. I dumped a lot of loads of grain in elevators. A fair amount about how they worked I had no idea they floated.
Awesome Video and Naration Kerry!
Kerry did a fantastic job!
Thank you!
I love the artwork.
Great presentation, love to see the another elevator getting preserved
You and me both!
Great job! Looks like the employees just left for the weekend! (Except for the mice, they don't get days off.)
Thanks for sharing and keeping this wonderful History. Thank You Thank You
Great video and explanation of what is in those big wood boxes! Hard to believe that with all the grain from so many farms that the RR couldn't make money hauling it.
Where did the farmers go to hang out after closing? The coffee shop at the converted Cash Store?
luky that you keep those historics buldings thank you
You did a fantastic job explaining how the elevator works. The only thing you must have never loaded a box car. The last one I filled would hardly hold a cat. You patched the holes with cardboard that the RR gave you. Great job explaining 😊🎉
@@davidkimmel5153 thanks for sharing David!
I agree with your boxcar statement, it took as long to patch them up as it did to load them. 😂 At the elevators I worked at we loaded refrigerator semi trucks with wheat too. Some of those trucks were full of holes as well. 😂
An absolute beautiful , explanation of the leduc elevator
You know what Leduc is right?
It’s French for John Wayne.
My great grandfather was an elevator manager in Granum in the fifties. I remember going to watch the last one come down in the early nineties. It’s good to see a few still in use by local farmers in other towns. But there’s not many around anymore for sure.
Thank you for sharing
@@mikefrench4787 You’re very welcome!
Nice
@@rodneycody8746 Thanks 😀
This is now in~grain~ed into my memory 😂
I had to shovel the bin bottoms of Dad's elevators. Farmer's Union GTA
Very cool. I wonder how these elevators operated be electricity.
Also had to clean the dust house.
If level changes when you walk on it...might be time to lose some weight 😅
Sorry there was nobody around 10000 years ago
And just how do you know that?
@@toddmarshall7573 DUST OF your Bible
Obviously they were, in...Spear~it ➡️
@@toddmarshall7573 you’re bible will tell you
@@JTA1961 They didn't build pyramids all over the world with spears.
It says it has 83,000 miles😂😂
The shift from the Imperial to the Metric System in Canada started April 1, 1975
@@M68TV1April fools day... how appropriate...