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a big year<br />
<strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> <strong>Farmer</strong> photo / Brooke Taylor<br />
Rick Seamer still tends the land his grandfather Henry started farming in 1867. He and the<br />
family are happy to have 2020 behind them and are looking forward to harvest.<br />
in 1867.<br />
Rick watched the derecho from the<br />
garage. It wasn’t until a neighbor drove<br />
by the family’s bins that he learned they’d<br />
suffered more than downed corn: their<br />
bins were in “bad shape.”<br />
The family learned just how capricious<br />
a so-called “straight-line” wind can be.<br />
A truck auger behind the bins flipped,<br />
but another auger in the direct line of the<br />
winds lay untouched.<br />
To assess the damages, Seamers called<br />
Seeser Storage Systems. With cranes,<br />
manlifts and expertise, Seeser replaced<br />
a bin that the Seamers didn’t think was<br />
salvageable, taking sheets from the destroyed<br />
bin to repair the other bin. “They<br />
did miracles,” Lane said.<br />
Seeser Storage Systems brought two<br />
cranes and two manlifts, carefully pushing<br />
and pulling back a bin that had come<br />
up about six inches.<br />
“This is our 49th year in business, so<br />
we’ve got some experience,” said Harlan<br />
Seeser. “Experience kind of guides you.”<br />
The Seamers’ other bin was beyond<br />
repair.<br />
“The roof of that far bin looked like a<br />
balloon,” Lane said. “The wind just got<br />
underneath it.”<br />
Neighbors, friends and family helped<br />
the Seamers tear down the destroyed bin.<br />
To recapture some of the capacity lost<br />
through the bin destroyed last year, they<br />
rented a bin down the road.<br />
Their new bin went up this summer,<br />
complete with a wind ring at the top and<br />
sidewall stiffeners—vertical rods around<br />
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