The Largest Farm Shop We’ve Ever Seen | TOP SHOPS® | Successful Farming

[Music] welcome to top shops I first came to the Spokane hunter and colony some 30 years ago to see the first chemical direct injection system a noose on a farm sprayer that first ever was the brainchild of Jake grosse who fabricated that state-of-the-art technology in one of the best shops I'd ever seen at the time as what has happened to many farm shops expanding operations and larger equipment group structures as is certainly what happened here at the colony Jake and his crew not only needed a bigger shop but are better equipped facility today we have the opportunity to see the shop in the making midway through construction let's go talk to Jake about the shop of their dreams so Jake why don't you walk us through the overall dimensions of this complex that you have here it's 400 feet long and 140 feet wide how did you figure out for your needs here because you're servicing so much equipment in the colony how did you figure out how much space you needed well we all got together and there's some guys that are better than others others and they come up with these dimensions these sizes four we want to put in 10 foot no 10 ton cranes and 70 foot this is pretty good length for a overhead crane that's why it turned out to be a crane on that side one on this side 140 feet then there was a lot of strategy had to go into usage of that space it's just not the fact that you have a big shop it's really that's a big shop can be kind of worthless if you don't really think it out right all right so how did you divide out the space I'm not sure if it's exactly perfect we'll learn as we go on right but it's more than just maintenance it's going to be manufacturing it's going to be a lot of maintenance and in now farming because we have so many varieties of crops there's a lot of modifications being done to planters potato plants as canola planters whatever we have doors 20-foot doors is 30-foot doors in 140-foot door where the largest implement can fit in and the wash bay of the north side is wide enough for two semis can stand there side by side and pass through doors and you had been we got we're gonna show people the old shop you guys were in and I remember the stuff that you were building everything in this place so is this kind of the shop of your dreams eventually to have exactly it's it's been a fifty year waiting period to see a shop like that when go in in the wintertime it's nice and warm you can hide you need coveralls yeah and do whatever you want to do we got plasma cutters we got CNC milling machines and things like that if someone really wants to gear up when my young men wants to go into machining here's the opportunity Jake and his family spend considerable time on door widths and placement so as to create both multiple work bays and pass-through equipment flow you've got this large area here with the combination of doors how did you figure out what doors to use is it in relationship to the work bays you wanted to create well not so much of just for the fact of having them okay you know the wider the door the bigger the cost right to the forty foot is yeah at the forty foot so there's only one of those and that's all we need we can drive in right out and there's 30 footers right and 20 footer so the 40 foot you have one of those and then you have a large area it behind that door then so you can stage in several combine exactly for a potato harvester that bring the combine and so that's kind of long-term not only for big work but long-term work - yeah in the wintertime we had a 60 foot no-till drill in here Wow - potato harvesters for all each answering machines and then we'll still room to work around right and that's just in that and right and the big smaller busier with the smaller trucks that's where the semis come in when they go through and service them in the winter time parts storage and the parts that they want to keep on hand is being given a lot of attention Jake explains as having the right part on hand is so crucial on not only keeping equipment running but also running a wide variety of equipment that the colony utilizes how far are you gonna take it when it comes to parts cuz that's a question I get asked all the time by farmers is how she you know we started out with filters and belts stocking right and then dealers would come out and restock you now guys are thinking we're seeing more and more farmers going and with more and more advanced more parts so they not they're not dead in the field but are you thinking it would be everything up to a major repair on like an engine and transmission well that it's hard to see what exactly that's gonna be but that's that's something we're gonna with time things are going to develop right you know some things we know we have to have filters you know especially in batteries too and we'll have some tires just so that we're not stuck right when someone's in the field he needs a tire right now we'll have some implement tires like right now we have truck tires too right especially specialty tires like the potato diggers that's something every shop in town does now those are the things that it's gonna time is gonna tell right what do you have to do the other room that I noticed you've got your smaller office then you've got a kind of washroom you have parts storage sitting back there and of course the boiler room upstairs you have the medicine but you also have a woodworking shop cuz you guys think a lot of your own furniture oh yeah that's a very common thing for our communities is to have a good carpenter shop yeah you know it'll be set up with some modern equipment yeah for machining wood structure is a little atypical what you find a pawn shops concrete walls and you got a course a metal roof on the top we're talking a flat flat roof on that concrete walls that's it's a little bit more investment why did you go with the concrete the durability if your left eye width 50 50 years to see this and now my grandkids and maybe great grandkids are going to be able to use it yeah so you're building it for them then it's gotta laugh it's gonna live the last stages of construction on the Spokane hütter and Colony shop includes an office complex complete with a much-needed conference room we plan to return in a couple of years to see the completion of the offices as well as the rest of the shop I'm looking forward to seeing all the innovation Jake and his crew come up with in the structures final form I'll see you next time on another topshop tour hi I'm Dave moats thanks for watching if you like this video hit subscribe right here if you haven't already and click that little bell right here to be notified when we post a new video and click here to see more great videos [Music]

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Length: 8min 9sec (489 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 26 2019