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Leesburg, Ohio | We have a Creamer 5500 bu/hr leg at our soybean storage site, and two GSI's and a Honeyville at our corn setup. The Creamer is the quietest, smoothest running of them all, but then, they are all quiet. You cannot tell if it is running while standing directly beside it unless you look at the shaft. The only thing i don't like about the Creamer is the cleanout doors...each side requires tools for four bolts to remove/install the doors on the boot. The GSI's only have two bolts each, and they are positioned so they can just be finger-tight. The Honeyville has slides that you just pull out, no bolts or tools at all.
All our turnheads came with cable controls, but I made the millwrights install pipe controls instead. I just felt like I could have a better sense of feeling what is happening at the turnhead with a solid pipe and handle than with a cable. The Honeyville just has a valve on it, so no help here on Honeyville turnheads.
Unlike the leg, we had issues with our Creamer pit drag, and although the company guy came out a couple times, they were no help at all. We have a "high-flite" pit drag at the bean location, plus an "en-mass" (low-flight) reclaim drag from bins returning to the leg. The reclaim drag runs smooth and fairly quiet. The pit drag was so loud it required ear plugs to be around the area when unloading trucks...it was the infamous "Creamer Screamer", and squealed so loudly it was actually painful to our ears. Company did nothing. Our local millwright worked his tail off trying to solve it...new support rails in the return side of the pit, different adjustments on tension, nothing worked. He finally took all the 1/2" poly flighting off the steel paddle brackets, and bought new 3/4" poly material, and manually cut out new paddles, and installed them on every flight. Problem solved. Not sure if the company ever reimbursed him or not....he said they were going to.
I would buy another Creamer leg. But our last new drag was a GSI.... | |
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