Jeff Brown's Blogs

Mar 5, 2025

Flaman Answers Call for Northern Wildfire Response

Hitting Northern Wildfires with 300 gallons of water and foam. A lightning strike. A crown fire that jumps from treetop to treetop. Dropping embers fall to the ground and smoulder in a quick-drying peat layer up to five feet deep. They wait all winter to flare up through the forest floor or burn through tree roots and inside trunks. In the northern woods, fire is a different animal. Tree stands are much sparser on the southern prairies. More people can spot and report blazes, and emergency response is less obstructed. Up north, fires are isolated – usually spotted first by...

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Nov 19, 2024

How a Bench Custom Grain Cleaner More Than Pays for Itself

It’s a scene that’s played out on farm after farm across Canada. Flaman Sales Specialist James Vanbeselaere positions your input and output augers, sets four levelling jacks, flips a switch on the central electric panel, and another farmer is in business.  If you’ve read our other Bench Custom Grain Cleaners Blog, you know that the business of on-farm grain cleaning makes good long-term economic sense. That blog discussed the savings you could bank, potentially over decades. With James’s help, this one details the ease, versatility, and benefits of operating your own personally customized cleaner.  Easy Start Up “They usually reach...

Nov 19, 2024

The Benefits of Customized On-Farm Grain Cleaning

"Every farm’s going to be different,” says James Vanbeselaere. “Every area will be different, depending on what they're trying to clean.”  As a Flaman Sales Specialist who’s installed and fired up a lot of customized Bench grain cleaners for enterprising customers, he should know.     What he’s showing farmers is a viable alternative to the transport distances, fuel costs, and unloading cues they can see taking their commodities to seed cleaning plants. Grain Cleaning Comes Home “You're just paying an expense to have the other guy clean it,” James says. “A lot of custom cleaners charge about a dollar a...

Oct 23, 2024

Schulte's Proven Design and Long History of Dependability

When you’ve been around for 11 decades-plus, you must be doing something right. That’s especially true when your manufacturing company started in Englefeld, Saskatchewan and has now won over customers from way down the southern states, who are saying things like this: “After our company switched to Schulte, our revenue per cutter went up 33%... We think the Schulte cuts better, period. It’s unbelievable the quality of cut that we can get at what we would call a high rate of mowing speed. We get paid by the acre, so productivity is a big deal for us, ground speed is...

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Oct 11, 2024

The Benefits that Set Schulte Equipment Apart

Schulte "Batwing" Cutters Provide an Innovatively Narrow Transport Profile. The equipment that gets the job done. It’s what customers from Florida to Northern Alberta have had to say about Schulte’s line of durable, dependable farm implements. That isn’t by accident, as Ken Barlott can tell you. As Department Head of Flaman Rentals in Nisku Alberta, he has a unique vantage point between Schulte’s product development process and a large chunk of its customer base. Here are four benefits Ken sees contributing to Schulte’s well-earned international reputation.  1. Built in Canada - and Built Heavy Schulte industries began in Englefeld, Saskatchewan...

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