Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

I don't miss all that Kansas wind! It was windy monday and tuesday over this way, but I don't think it was 40mph. It was out of the west. Wheat, do I remember you saying you've got on electric tarp? Does it work ok in the wind, or does it give it problems? The fall I was out there, there were several days when it was so windy, once we got the tarps open, they just had us leave them open and don't even try to roll them.


Went out to Ohio for posts Monday. Tuesday on the way back there were quite a few combines out cutting beans, but only saw a couple in corn, that was in IL, near where US 136 meets I-74. Dad and brother cut some beans yesterday and today, one field made 56, another 50, moisture in the 12 range, but one field still had a lot of green stems. That might be it for a while, the rest still have some leaves on them.

 

I had an electric on my dump truck. You just had to turn into the wind and then hit the switch.

 

We just threw a rope over the middle all the way around underneath and tied it off. The boss's wife learned the hard way what the wind will do the year before, they were telling me.

She'd got the tarp almost rolled across all the way when the wind caught it. She was hanging on to the handle like a hooked fish for half an hour or so until one of the guys showed up. She refused to let go of the thing.

She said several people drove by, looked at her, and kept on going. That's what annoyed her about it.

 

Evening all.. Taking a much needed break.. Finally got a chance to say hi.