Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Hi RW. It's crazy around here. Corning is on an island. Pocahontas and Poplar Bluff are having mandatory evacuations. We were loading from some bins near the Cache but the water is now up on the bins and waist deep on the road. We moved and I'm running Light to Riceland Jboro and that's still OK. Anybody running thru here be advised 67 is closed at the Current river south of Corning and somewhere between Corning and Poplar Bluff. 63 is closed off and on both sides of Imboden. 412 closed between Portia and Walnut Ridge. There is talk of closing the 63 bridge at Black Rock. I'm sure everybody that runs 63 probably knows by now but the 63 bridge at Black Rock failed it's last inspection and is scheduled to be rebuilt starting in 2013. The weight limit is 66K and they've brought in several outside DOT guys working both sides constantly. They're writing guys up like crazy. This weather is wild. I've lived up here 26 years and this is the worst flooding I've seen. Thanks for thinking bout me and checking RW.

 

Good to hear from ya,cowdoc. Stay safe,we got another 2 inches today.That brings the total to 11 in the last week.I tell ya,its crazy around here too.Glad your ok.

 

63 closed now. Water over the road between Hoxie and Black Rock.

 

As long as you and the family and friends are safe and dry, that is what matters. This weather is getting to be something with all the tornadoes and violent storms. It used to be mostly Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas that got a visit from the tornadoes and not they are everywhere.

I am thinking about moving to Alaska it may be a safe place to be away from those storms but my luck the first day there I would be killed by a Grizzly.

 

Getting a little rain here today and it is a little chilly around 45. But it always rains during our music festival.

 

55 here and cloudy. I tried yesterday to adjust the rear hopper trap but didn't have a lot of luck. Got the nuts off with help of air gun but the bolts were in there solid. Guess will work on it tomorrow and use a bigger hammer. I may have to take it to Timpte sometime and get it fixed if I can't get it to adjust.

 

I did mine last Friday and replaced bearings which I found at NAPA, put the new panels on for the openers and grinded the old paint off the shaft and primered and painted them black, looks like new and opens up a lot better and faster. I thought about ordering new warning decals and the arrow decals, but hey I know which way it closes and opens without a sticker.

Just getting my trailer in great shape and try to keep it that way. I can't believe the guys I run into that don't take care of their equipment and the trailers that leak. I see a lot of grain trails down the drive leading to the scales.

 

In a frost advisory tonight. I believe mother nature is trying to kill the wheat off this year.

 

3 1/2" as of 7:25 this am 45deg and still raining.
Big John You know how to open and close it, but you would be
amazed at the morons that open and close them at harvest for you that
don't have a clue.
I have had them break the shaft u joint bolts from trying to open them
in the wrong direction thinking it was stuck.(they were turning the crank handle the wrong blasted way) thats with the stickers on them. One idiot did it two loads in a row. I let the first time slide, the second time I got out of the truck and gave him a lesson in TRAP OPENING 101. He never done it again.