Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

I'd say locally it will be more of a drying issue than storage problem. The elevators I haul for have all their wheat gone, last year they kept a little till Dec. Like I mentioned a couple posts back, there's been a lot of commercial storage built around here in the last few years, plus farmers seem to be steadily building their own bins. Drying could be the problem this year, like last. The railroad facility I mentioned only has one dryer so far, can't remember the capacity, but they've admitted it will probably fall short this year. If October stays cool, we could very well have days where the elevators can only stay open half a day or whatever, just to keep up with drying. If we have an indian summer and the corn will dry down in the field, life could be good. It will be an adventure, hope we're done by Thanksgiving.

The fall I was out in your neighborhood, 1997, I remember one of the elevators in Hutch having an enormous pile of milo on the ground, long wait to get in to dump on it. I think the problem that year was also still having too much wheat leftover from summer. I sat in line one morning out in Plains, KS about 3 hours to get dumped. When I got back to the field, I asked the boss "where do you want me to go for this afternoon's load?" He didn't see any humor in that.

 

they got it put on them pretty good didn't they?the titans had the best record last year at 13-3 and this year they cant figure out how to win.

 

Boss told me this morning at church we start back tomorrow Wheathauler. We cut Weds. then that night it set in and rained for a day and a half. It was already wet. We got 3-4 inches. Just south of here around Newport they got 10-12. I figure the pull hooks are gonna get a workout this fall. The boss bought a new pull rope weds. to pull the combines and buggies out with. Gonna be interesting.

 

If we get stuck at the field one of the buggy tractors will get us. If we get stuck on the new rocks at the driveover we use a tractor if there's one sitting there or we've usually got a backhoe there that we set up with and we use that. It doesn't take much if we just spin out in the loose new gravel at some of the driveover setups but when trying to make those fine moves while dumping on the driveover it happens a good bit on new loose rocks. If you're talking about the combines and buggy tractors we usually pull them out with a combine but weds. we stuck a combine trying to pull another combine and had to go get their 9420 JD with duals all around. I kind of figure we'll keep that tractor pretty close here on out.

 

I watched most of the Chiefs game, its gonna be real hard to be a fan this year. I bet they don't win a single game...