JJEB Enterprises

We manufacture specialized combine screens and do custom metal fabrication Located 20 minutes from Altona or Winkler, Manitoba

The JJEB Story

JJEB started operating in the late 1970’s by finding that there was not a good way to fill a seed drill on the farm.  Bill Dueck and three of his brothers started making drill fill boxes of various sizes and configurations and even install on customers trucks.  The JJEB name came about by shuffling their names John, Jake, Ed, and Bill.  These brothers also farmed together at different capacities over the years as some went to university, etc.

By early 1980 they built a new shop which is the current shop, with new welders, a 12 foot break and Shear rated for up to ¼” material.  The shop remained busy for years with that until air seeders became the norm on farmers fields.  They also built houseboat pontoons for Grandeur housing, from that era to 2008 when the last one rolled out of the shop.  The downturn in the markets hit this market badly and never really recouped.  Sizes ranged from 50’ to 75’ long and 16’ wide.  The shop also allowed other manufacturers to utilize the brake and shear and also work together to help each other out.  Some of those include Tormaster, Elmer’s, Schnell, Neustar truck boxes and others that just needed custom work done.  Other work included modifications to ag rims for the wet years of farming where everyone needed wider tires and making mine refuge Oxygen making units to name a few.

Fast forward to the early 2000’s when the edible bean processors were seeing way too much dirt in samples and dirt tag, so we worked with a local buyer to make a screen in the combine to remove dirt and that’s where we are today over 40 years later still filling the needs of farmers whether by offering new products for combines, custom made items, steel sales, to equipment repairs of all kinds.

In September of 2020 John, Jake, and Ed sold remaining shares to Rosenheim Grain Farm Ltd which is solely owned by Bill Dueck and his son, Matt.  John, Jake, and Ed formally retired from this occupation.  We are currently still operating as its own company but owned by the farm.  We also still farm as Matt and his family are stepping up and continuing the family legacy of farming, manufacturing and repair.

The farm currently is just under 2000 acres with a diverse rotation of corn, soybeans, wheat, canola, flax, edible beans, peas. So, we have a good understanding of specialty equipment and how they work and can be modified to improve performance.

FARM SHOW NEWS • vol. 37, no. 2

“When I talk to grain farmers about the screens we make I ask them if they want to run dust and dirt through their combines, wear out bearings, augers and chains, and get dirt in the tank, or do they want cleaner material going into the machine from the start,” says Manitoba grain farmer Bill Dueck.  “Once they realize that our slotted feederhouse screens will practically eliminate any dirt entering the machine, I’ve usually made the sale.”

Dueck manufactures and markets slotted screen panels that replace the solid metal feederhouse floors on Deere, Case IH and other combine models.  The screens, which are made of 10 gauge steel with 3/16-in. wide by 7/8-in. long slots, are used during pea, edible bean and soybean harvest.  The screened area is 16 in. deep and Dueck says it removes a large amount of dirt, dust and chaff that would normally go right into the machine with a solid feederhouse floor.  “I had one customer tell me that he tied a 2-gal. pail under his machine and, after making one round, the pail was almost full,” says Dueck.  “That was about 20 percent of the screen area, so a lot of dirt and dust was going back onto the field rather than into the machine.”

Dueck came up with the idea about the year 2000 ago when he noticed a large amount of dust and dirt in the harvested peas on his own farm.  “The pickup gathers up small pieces of dirt and with a solid feederhouse floor; in the machine it goes,” says Dueck.  “The air system on the combine removes some of the dirt, but not all of it.”  Using the JJEB feederhouse screens results in a much cleaner sample, and in some cases, a premium price for cleaner product.  One of Dueck’s customers told him he received a one dollar a pound premium for his peas compared to peas from a combine without the screens.  Other customers have traded combines and ordered screens for their new machines because they see the advantages of cleaner grain.

JJEB ‘s screens bolt onto the feederhouse when the OEM solid metal floor is removed.  The company makes a solid metal plate to cover the screen area when small grains or canola are harvested.  It’s held in place with spring-loaded pins.  Farmers who want to take their mechanical cleaning process even further can use JJEB screens on elevator doors and clean grain auger floors.  Those products are made of 14-gauge steel and have 5/32-in. by 3/4-in. slots that run either straight or at an angle.  Dueck recommends a farmer trying the feederhouse screens first, then adding the other screens if the grain sample is still dirty.

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Contact us at 1-204-829-3324

1-204-324-3104 (Matt cell)

1-204-324-4295 (Bill cell)

info@jjeb.ca

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