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Agriculture

Grain elevator scales that keep up with harvest

At harvest, the scale is the bottleneck for the whole elevator. Thurman decks are specified where truck traffic never lets up — and where a day of downtime costs more than the scale.

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Grain terminal silos and elevator legs with a loaded grain trailer pulled up to the receiving pit

Built for all-day truck flows

A grain elevator scale works hardest exactly when you can least afford a failure. Inbound and outbound trucks queue from first light through the end of the day, every day of the season. The Diamondback’s self-restoring double-ended shearbeam design takes that repeated loading without drifting out of tolerance — the deck carries the abuse so the load cells don’t.

Move trucks faster

Pair the deck with a TS3300 indicator and a 218T remote display with integrated traffic light. The indicator controls the light automatically, so the next truck moves as soon as the deck is clear. Tickets and accumulated transaction records are available from any browser on the elevator network through the indicator’s embedded web server — no trip to the scale house to pull a total.

When the grain leaves by rail

An elevator that ships in unit trains weighs the railcar as well as the truck. The 8765 above-ground track scale is built for slab installation on a siding, rated 85 tons per section, with Intalogix Technology standard — so the cell-by-cell diagnostics running your truck deck cover the track scale too, on one service method and one distributor.

When weight sets the price of grain, the scale must hold NTEP tolerances between state inspections. Thurman distributors are factory-trained to calibrate, certify and service your scale — most within a day’s drive of your elevator.

Weighing grain, feed or fertilizer? Request a quote and a Thurman sales engineer will connect you with your local distributor, usually within one business day.

Specified here

Equipment for agriculture

Thurman Diamondback 8560 steel deck truck scale in orange, showing the diamond-tread deck and open-bottom I-beam understructure

Diamondback 8560 Steel Deck Truck Scale

Diamondback 8560

Serviced from the top. Cleaned out from underneath.

Thurman Diamondback 8550 field pour truck scale, showing the poured concrete deck, orange steel modules and 15 in. low profile

Diamondback 8550 Field Pour Truck Scale

Diamondback 8550

A 10 in. concrete deck, poured on site into Diamondback steel modules

IntalogixTS3311 Intalogix scale indicator, NEMA 12 desktop housing, 7-inch color display, numeric keypad and five function keys.

TS3311 Desktop Indicator

The indicator tells you which section drifted

Thurman 8765 RRT above-ground railroad track scale module, live rail on the main girders with steel deck cover panels.

8765 Railroad Track Scale

8765 RRT

Ships in assembled modules, with the rails on the main girders

Thurman 218T remote display, black NEMA 3 enclosure, red weight digits above a 5 in. green dot and red X traffic signal

218T Remote Display with Integrated Traffic Light

Weight and the signal, on one sight line