Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

There was a Wilkens walking floor trailer unloading grain at elevator, must have took over twenty minutes to unload. I sure didn't know they were that slow unloading.

 

When we had them deliver whole cottonseed years ago,i think it took around 20 minutes also. I've never seen one hauling corn though,was it a 48 footer?

 

I don't know it was pretty long and tall, had tarps on top. It was hauling wheat, strange.

 

use to pull one hauling urea outta vicksburg up to hartford kansas....it was a wilkens but unloaded in bout ten to twelve min...and wheat is not quite as "slick".....hell when i was a little boy my dad said a "walking floor" was when you busted a few bags of soybean seed an poured them all over the floor of a flat with a side kit so you could throw the bags an they would slide all the way out to the end and into someones hands on the other side.....bust a 60$ bag of seed now and see what a farmer says bout it...haha

 

I have been loading wheat from a small spout connected to a 100,000 bushel bin. Takes 23 minutes to load which is fairly long and it is really dirty loading. I have wheat dust all over, even behind my eyeballs I believe. They increased the rate so guess I will keep doing it until done in a week.

 

ya been there my family has owned several elevators around here gravity fed wheat spouts or even augers for that matter are very slow.....wheat is so abrasive

 

Welcome to the hopper thread,squarebox. Yep,we used to put alfalfa dust down on the flats and it worked kinda the same way,if the humidity was not too high,i'd be scared to try it with a bag of beans now too. Did you ever pull any cottonseed out of Alabama from Burgreen and Black Cotton Gin when you pulled the walking trailer?

I feel your pain WH,i emptied out a bin of corn for a farmer today and i'm still coughing up dust. I forgot my little white mask and a bandana hanky just don't do the trick for a good filter. He had a 16ft.sweep in a 27ft bin,so needless to say i got to scoop a LOT!

 

The only good thing is it wasn't milo. Milo itches so bad it can almost drive a person crazy. I have a farmer friend that is allergic to corn dust, he really goes nuts in that.

 

I always use a mask. The guys hauling with me today were sneezing, coughing and other misc. symptoms. I thought guys get a mask but oh well.

 

Was it freightlogistics or aka MBI? They haul alot of wheat into cereal foods with those things and make a big mess.