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Contract Manufacturer
  • OEM Supplier of Loaders & Backhoes


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Soo Tractor Sweeprake Company started in 1942 in Sioux City, Iowa
  • Over the years, we produced:
  • Wooden sweeprakes
  • Push-off hay stackers
  • Front-end loaders
  • Backhoes
  • Roll back truck beds
  • Wagon & truck hoists
  • Corn stalk cutters
  • 3 point & mid mount mowers


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Soo Tractor dedicated its resources to OEM front-end loaders and backhoes
  • In 1972 – Soo Tractor Sweeprake started delivering front-end loaders to Massey Ferguson
  • In 1993 – Soo Tractor Sweeprake continued supplying loaders and backhoes to Agco Corporation
  • Today – Soo Tractor is the primary supplier of loaders, backhoes and attachments to Massey Ferguson/Agco;  Accumulators, tongues and hitches to Hesston
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MAIN OFFICE & PLANT
  • 1400 W. 1st Street
  • Sioux City, IA 51103


  • All buildings
  • 167,000 sq ft
  • Located on 9 acres
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SECOND FACILITY
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Hawkeye Drive, Sioux City, IA
  • Unlimited space for welding bays & fabrication
  • Roller, shear and drill press capabilities
  • Powder paint system with capacity of 6’x9’x32’
  • Three stage wash system



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Hawkeye Drive, Sioux City, IA
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EMPLOYEES
  • 30% of the employees have over 10 years of dedicated service and take great pride in their workmanship to produce the highest quality products


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ENGINEERING
  • Loader and backhoe design with testing
    • Pro-E engineering Cad system
    • Finite element analysis (FEA) with Nastran
    • Lab and field testing with EDaq
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EQUIPMENT & PROCESSES
  • Laser cut parts for clean edges. Five laser houses  with over 25 laser machines supply parts to Soo Tractor Sweeprake
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MODERN FABRICATION
    • Automatic and flexible to meet customer requirements
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WELDING
    • Six axes robot welding with dual farris wheel, head stock and tail stock
    • Welding stations with experienced welders


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POWDER PAINT
  • Powder coat painting increases durability to withstand damage and environment
  • Shot blasting
  • 5 stage washer
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POWDER PAINT
  • Five powder
  • coating paint
  • booths in two facilities which allows us to paint any color customer
  • requires
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POWDER PAINT
  • Computerized
  • automatic gun
  • adjustment with
  • photo sensors to
  • accommodate
  • different size parts
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POWDER PAINT
  • Infrared preheat system
  • Convection curing oven
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ASSEMBLY
  • Assemble loaders, backhoes, attachments, tongues, hitches & accumulators
  • Direct ship to customers
    • 1 to 4 day turn around on orders
    • All orders are scanned for verification & tracking
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SHIPPING
  • Flatbed loading dock with 3 ton overhead traveling crane
  • 3 incoming/outgoing self leveling loading docks
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Soo Tractor Sweeprake quality is the
best in the loader/backhoe market
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Soo Tractor has:

    • Flexibility to meet customer requirements
    • Quick delivery to meet retail demands
    • Engineering department with rapid prototyping to get to the market quickly
    • Non union stable work force
    • Long lasting OEM relationships (Massey Ferguson since 1972)
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Soo Tractor has:
    • ISO 9001:2008 certification coming May 2010
    • Strong management team for the future
    • Electronically supply vendors with piece part prints and purchase orders
    • Electronically control receiving, build, ship, and invoice orders
    • Soo Tractor is a financially sound company
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