Ranco Fertiservice Inc. products

Ranco utilizes tube augers most often on an incline. Many of our tube augers are engineered with a feeder screw section that is less than full pitch flighting. This allows the auger to self regulate without over filling. Tube augers are useful when relatively low volumes need to be moved a short distance and are often called a ‘jump-auger’.  Stainless steel tubes are normally used but some units use fiberglass tubes.

The Ranco U-trough Auger can be utilized for blending, as an overbin/overtank unit, overroof unit, a receiving system, or as a transfer unit.  The auger sections are supported above the u-trough by hanger bearings so product is never damaged.  Conveying capacity of the auger is a combination of auger diameter, flighting pitch, rotating speed, and percent fill.

Micronutrients are easily added to any blend by incorporating additive bins to the blend system.  The additive bin is designed for bagged and tote products.  It has a holding capacity of approximately 700 pounds of 60# material.  The additive bin accurately meters the product and distributes it throughout the entire blend. The additive bins can utilize bulk bags with the help of our bulk bag stands, pallet hoppers and cone pallets. The pallet hoppers use stainless steel slide gates to discharge product into the additive bin below the hoppers.

The Ranco Multi-Blender is a departure from the normal batch and tumble mixers. The Multi-Blender is a volumetric unit, which continuously blends the desired products.  One of the major advantages of this blender is the speed in which a truckload can be blended. Another advantage to this type of system is the quality of blend even when adding small amounts of product. This is achieved because every product is continuously metered into a common blend auger, which means it’s evenly distributed throughout the entire blend.

The Ranco slider bed belt conveyor utilizes linear UHMW slider strips to reduce the coefficient of friction.  These strips are utilized on the carry side as well as the return side.  The UHMW strips also reduce the maintenance required as troughing rollers are eliminated.  The intermediate sections are formed steel and available in mild or stainless.  All of our conveyors utilize a snubber roller that allows more belt wrap on the drive roller.  This additional wrap dramatically reduces the likelihood of belt slippage.  Conveyors can be jackshaft or Dodge reducer driven

Ranco designed its roller conveyor with one purpose in mind: to provide a premium finished product using premium components and superior design and workmanship. Ranco roller conveyors are built to stand the test of time. Hands down, we build the heaviest duty conveyors in the industry. Our standard conveyor design includes many options not found on other conveyors. Cema C 5” diameter rollers are standard. Our return rollers are not the solid steel drum, but rather rubber disk rollers that fight against build up and aid in belt tracking.

Large storage buildings are becoming more and more popular. Ranco has a proven design to help with high capacity bulk storage projects. Ranco’s hanging catwalk and conveyor system eliminates the need for bin walls or concrete poured pillars to support the conveyor system. The hanger system is braced from overhead trusses of any type. Systems can be installed in tension-membrane buildings, steel construction buildings, and glue-lam wood beam buildings.

Ranco fabricates its own heavy beam support structures, support towers, and catwalk trusses. All of Ranco’s structures are overbuilt to ensure long life and worry free use. All of our structures are built out of mild steel that has been primed with an alkyd primer and painted with a two part polyurethane paint to provide corrosion resistance.

Ranco Bucket Elevators are built to last.  One of the reasons is our 4’ tall trunk sections.  They provide superior strength and stability because of the reinforcing angle flange every four feet.  Our boot section is 5’ tall on our single trunk legs and 6’ tall on our double trunk legs.  The boot utilizes heavy-duty pillow block bearings and self-cleaning tail rollers.  Removable side panels allow for easy removal of the entire tail roller assembly.

The Ranco Impregnation Unit consists of a positive displacement gear type pump, coupled to a variable speed DC motor.  The output line feeds a stainless steel drip bar. The drip bar is placed across the top of the blend auger or overhead impregnation auger. As the blended product passes under the drip bar, the liquids are accurately metered and evenly distributed throughout the entire blend. Because of the systems unique design, product viscosity changes do not affect the rate of output.