Staying Clean while hauling grain? (hopper)
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I wore a air filtration mask and goggles when loading and unloading anything after a while. Had a spec of fertilizer blow into my eye one day and could not see for a week...and it burned like crazy.
And chicken meal would blister my skin. I stopped feeding my dog anything with chicken meal in it after that. -
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We hauled some fish meal, both in bags and in bulk. The bagged stuff (super sacks) wasn't too bad but the bulk was a nightmare. We won't talk about the smell. Anybody that's hauled that stuff knows about the smell. It loaded out of an overhead bin and I don't care which way you pulled in, the wind would be blowing toward the cab. Turn the truck around and the #### wind would switch around too. I don't care how many times you'd wash the truck and trailers afterward that stuff would find cracks and crevices to hide in until the next day with high humidity and it would start to stink all over again,
The overhead bin required a man to be right there at the handle because the stuff wasn't consistent in moisture and would stick, bridge over, run like dry sand and then stick again.
Unloading was just as miserable. Vibrators didn't work well on our hoppers so it was a poke job and the drivers got fed up with it pretty quick. I got fed up with the dead time for loading and unloading and truck washing so I subbed the haul out to a guy in the next town. He still hauls it.
You don't want to park on the down wind side of his truck though. Or him, for that matter.Feedman, motocross25, bigguns and 2 others Thank this. -
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