Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

My starter/selenoid started acting up today while hauling beans to Owensboro, so i'll be putting a new(re-man) on the 'ol girl 1st thing monday morning($239.50 in the hole).I love kicking off the week with truck repairs,seems like when i start off the week with breakdowns,it just ends up being breakdowns all week long. Well,at least it got me home and i ain't brokedown out on the road,it could be worse

Cowdoc,sorry to hear the bad news about a fellow grain-hauler,what happened to him?

R.W.,try looking up Fastline.com,MachineFinder.com, TractorHouse.com,or Ironsearch.com.You might find those belted conveyers listed under truck or hopper augers/conveyers. ''DA'' is short for 'displaced abomasum', its when one of the cows 4 stomachs gets twisted , cowdoc can probably explain it better than i can though.

Wheathauler,i wonder how high this corn price has to go before the ethanol boys become break-even or un-profitable,my grain broker at Debruce said $6 corn was just about breakeven. What have you heard?

 

Dairyman he was loaded with beans headed for Caruthersville. He was apparently passing a 4 wheeler dropped left steer off pavement left side came all the way back across the highway and off the right side. Conflicting stories other than that. I saw him on the road all the time. Really hits home.
DA or displaced abomasum is a twist of the 4th or true stomach. Can be a left or right twist. For some reason very predominately a dairy cow problem. Rarely seen in beef cows. Cow must be rolled and the stomach tacked( sutured) in place blind. Or the cow is opened up and the stomach is flipped back straight then tacked ahead of the udder.
I hauled 1 bin of dry rice to make room. Milling is low and damage is high. That's the word pretty much across Ark. rice country.

 

See a lot of piles of Milo around western Kansas. Goodland, KS had big piles of grain on the ground.

 

Thanks cowdoc and dairyman, I'd never heard of a DA, and now I don't feel quite as dumb since you mentioned it is rare in beef cows.

 

So the DA didnt make you feal like such a DA lol sorry couldnt resist lol.

 

Yeah, that's another way to put it!

 

RW
Don't feel like the Loan Ranger
I was clueless
But I'm that way most of the time

 

I've grown up around beef cows, I thought I should have known better. But we've never had that happen as far as I can remember.

 

We have never had a DA in a beef cow either,R.W.,i think it's from too much grain and not enough long stem hay and forage in the dairy cows diet early in their lactation. Did you find any hopper conveyers yet?

Fuel was back down to $2.99 today,Wheathauler.I'm still staying busy hauling beans here,i think i will get caught up this week,maybe. Dry,Dry,Dry,folks are having to start hauling water to the cows all around central Ky.,the ponds are just drying up,it is starting to get dangerously dry around my neck of the woods

Hope Everyone has a safe and profitable week.