Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

What brand are you running. ive never really looked into them but im thinking that would be the best choice for wet gluten. I saw a pic of one that looked to have an aluminum floor? It was shiney as hell atleast!

 

2003 Travis

 

Where you hauling to and from???? Only a couple of places have unloading pits.....anywhere else if you're running your hopper and you'll have to deal with a "doodler"

Been doing the same thing, but with a pneumatic for about 18 months now.....

Our thing is to the wells though.

 

I worked for some custom harvesters out in wheathauler's neighborhood that would haul rock in hopper bottoms in the off season as a backhaul. I've hauled 2", I think the place called it "1 1/2 lateral" or something like that, and smaller gravel, and screenings, really fine stuff that looked almost like kitty litter. That stuff would freeze in the trailers like crazy, sometimes have to get a torch out and heat up the doors before they would even open. Not a fun experience. That's been 12 years ago, so I don't even know if they do that anymore. Its definitely harder on the trailer than just grain, but a place with an inexperienced or angry probe operator can do a lot of damage too.

I hauled 2 loads of lime in one of our hoppers last summer, perfectly dry day, and it wouldn't come out of the trailer worth a darn. Took at least 30 minutes to get it out. I thought it would work better than that, but it sure didn't. From now on, using our little 28' dump for that stuff.

 

I've been lucky to not get any bows bent, but I have had them hit the straps that support the tarp and break them, or go all the way under a strap and come back up and snap them. I hate when they are probing and you're sitting in the truck and you can feel them hit the bottom. "There's another dent!"

 

I used to haul calcium in a hopper and that stuff would almost be like cement by the time you got to your destination and then it would take for ever and some work to get it out. There were times I would have to get in the trailer and help it along, when it was all said and done I looked like Casper the ghost. I use to haul it out of Cleburne, TX and Roland, OK and take it to Guymon, OK or Oklahoma City. I don't care to ever haul it again.

 

Well everyone have a good week and I hope it is a good one money wise, I am off to Texas.