Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

I was hoping you would chime in, knew there was someone on here not far from me. I live about 8 miles north of the spurs they put in here, but worked at the time about 30 miles north at an ag facility.

I grew up riding with my Grandad in the tractor pulling gravity wagons to that Farmers Elevator in Lowder when it was small. Between them & Johnson & all those guys chasing Dowson Farms, that world has definitely changed.

 

Havn't been on in a while been outrageous busy though if I wasnt in the truck I have been fixing farm equipment we made plenty of ruts last week in the fields but never got truck or combine stuck (knock on wood) and now we are as wet as we could be now so with the forecast I really don't see us getting in the field this week at all though we have thrown out the idea to try to run some tomorrow guess we will see I have a load on now to unload in the morning at PPI in deerfield mo otherwise I will probably spend the rest of the week hauling out of farmers bins with the slow harvest futures and basis have run up quite well and some are already unloading new crop out of the bin so I will probably have a full week anyway

give it a good shake guys hope to see ya on the road!!!!!!!!

 

We cut til a little after 11 last night. Muddy to the extreme. I've only been stuck twice this year so far but the road shoulders and everything is really soft now. Some of the roads are falling through.

 

Yep, things have definitely changed, although around here, there are still quite a few small farmers that pull gravity wagons to the elevators. I hauled for Dowsons a few years back for a week or so in early September before anyone here was in the field. I can do without that now, don't need to help them try to farm half of IL. Apparently they farm some ground up near Bushnell now, their parade of equipment came through here a couple weeks ago, guess with all their combines and carts, they had traffic backed up something terrible.

Its pretty darn wet here, I don't know if we'll get much done this week. Was talking to a farmer last night, said, "Well, at our current pace, we should be done, oh, about......March!" Hope the corn keeps standing well.

 

We got around an inch here, it was wet before, its really wet now. Probably won't be doing much this week. It could be worse, heard there was a lot of beans in northern IL that got hammered by the frost/freeze. Heard there are simply no beans in the pods. Ouch. Got an email that was circulating around last week, pictures of somewhere in IA that got snow, combines and tractors sitting in the field with about 4 inches of snow on them.

Chance of rain Thursday and Friday. Joy.

Anybody wanna buy a hopper?


J/K.....

 

Careful what you wish for RW. If my new dispatcher turns out as well as I have heard about her I may sneak in there on a dark and gloomy day.......... Hopper No-hopper

 

I'm kidding of course. Just frustrated with this stupid weather. I may try my hand at being a real flatbedder someday, but not giving up on the hopper gig this easy. Good luck with the new dispatcher.