Holman Farming Group expands business (video)
By Joan Janzen
There has been a lot of activity at Holman Farming Group in Luseland as they expand their operation. The company’s seed cleaning plant manager, Jessie Bruce, explained. “This is in addition to what we have. It is a seed-cleaning plant to complement what we already have, and the bins we have are there to support it. We’ve been working on the base since last fall.”
During the last week of April, the main lifting crane arrived in 14 truckloads and took a few days to set up after its arrival. Bruce said it’s a 720-ton crane, which came from south of Moose Jaw, and the crane company is from Edmonton.
Click for larger images and captions, and enjoy our video of the event. Photos and video by Harland Lesyk of Your Southwest Media Group.
At the construction site, the large crawler crane was built on the engineered gravel pad below the wooden crane mats. Once the crawler crane was set up, the 240-foot boom on the crawler crane swung over the top of the orange and blue bin cluster, lifting it with the lifting lugs, which were sticking out of the roof. The bins will hold both uncleaned and cleaned grain.
After the cluster had been picked up, the crane swung over and placed the bin cluster on top of the structural steel located beside the elevator. The entire operation was completed later that week.
Holman Farming Group is looking forward to being better able to serve their community. “It’s not just for the farmers; we do work for the community as well,” Bruce explained. “There are bigger plants out there, as far as capabilities are concerned. But it will be a state-of-the-art facility and should be able to handle just about any cleaning scenario.”
Holman Farming Group is a family-owned business run by General Manager, Dan Holman. Stacey, Rod and Gayle Holman are the other proprietors.