Preparing for Harvest Season Using Big Brute

As you know very well, preparing for the harvest is crucial for making your agricultural year a success. Every season brings its own challenges, but the harvest season in late summer and early autumn is crucial to save time and prevent errors that could be costly.

So what are the most effective ways to prepare? Making a comprehensive plan is crucial, and so is ensuring all your equipment is fully maintained and in perfect working condition. But do you stop to consider whether you have the correct equipment to do that?

Big Brute supplies a range of industrial vacuum cleaners, and many of these have a proven record in preparing for harvest season — and even preventing substantial losses.

Whether you’re cleaning out grain pits, grain stores or your combines, Big Brute can help you prepare for a successful harvest.

Grain Stores

Unless you’re in the unusual position of growing only one crop through the year, it’s vital to thoroughly clean out your grain stores and elevators in order to prevent cross-contamination. However, this isn’t always easy. The base of your vertical elevator is likely to be at the bottom of a deep pit, and accessing this to clean it thoroughly can be a problem.

Fortunately, it’s easy if you use the Big Brute Suck & Dump. This industrial vacuum cleaner can be connected to a fixed suction pipe deep in the pit, allowing every grain left over from the previous harvest to be sucked up.

The Suck & Dump can be suspended over a conveyer or pit and opened at the bottom to remove the entire load. Your grain store will be clean and ready for your next harvest.

Grain Spillage

Grain spillages happen in the best organised operations and can be costly. Normal methods of recovering the spillage stir up dust, contaminating the grain and making it useless. How do you clean up the spillage so that the grain can still be used?

The best way is to combine the Big Brute Suck & Dump with a Big Brute 1-Tonne Bin. While the amazing suction of the Suck & Dump recovers every bit of the spillage, it can be transferred to the bottom-opening 1-Tonne Bin, which can be emptied without stirring up dust, allowing the spilt grain to be used.

The Big Brute 1-Tonne Bin allows you to clean up spillages without waste easily and can be moved on a forklift or telly hand until needed again.

Warehouse or Grain Store Floors

Those vast floors in your warehouses or grain stores can be a problem. Trying to clean them with a broom or an ordinary vacuum cleaner takes forever, and even then they’re not really clean. Do you still get that gritty feeling underfoot when you walk over the floor?

You need an industrial vacuum cleaner — but not just any one. Most vacuum cleaners throw up a fine dust, which settles back down and leaves the floor still dirty. What you need is the Big Brute Warehouseman, which allows you to clean large areas of floor quickly and efficiently at an even walking pace, with no dust thrown up.

Of course, not all your grain store floors are going to be new and smooth, and with most industrial vacuum cleaners this can be a problem. The Warehouseman has brushes that adjust to the surface, so it will thoroughly clean even an uneven or pitted surface.

Combine Harvesters

It’s not only your grain stores that need to be cleaned out between harvests, especially if you grow different types of grain. Grain left behind in your combine can also contaminate the new harvest and make it unusable.

It can be a hassle to clean out your combine tank after each harvest, but it has to be done. This is another area where Big Brute Suck & Dump can make the job so much easier.

Combining the power of the Suck & Dump with an extra-long hose designed specially for it will enable you to get easily into all areas of the tank and leave your combine harvesters clean and pristine to take in the next harvest.

Cleaning Up After Accidents

Accidents are bound to happen, even in the best-regulated farming operation, but they can be costly. What would happen, for example, if some accidentally dropped wheat on top of a load of barley? Separating them would be almost impossible, and it may be necessary to throw everything away, wasting thousands of pounds.

For all their power, Big Brute industrial vacuum cleaners can also be delicate and precise. In the case given, it would be possible to suck up only the top layer, removing the wheat and leaving the barley behind, as good as ever.

Big Brute Answers All Your Agricultural Cleaning Needs

Although Big Brute industrial vacuum cleaners serve other industries, too, we’ve designed our range to solve whatever cleaning problems you might encounter in agricultural operations. Our machines combine power with precision, come with a wide variety of attachments to meet every need, and are designed to be easily and safely emptied.

Get in touch with us to find out more about how Big Brute industrial vacuum cleaners will make your life easier coming up to harvest.