Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Wheathauler, I traded a 48x96x72 for a 50x102x72 and i haven't seen any difference in fuel mileage. I've always got 4.5 mpg loaded at 96,000lbs but I can't keep my foot out of it. When I haul ddgs I start at the back of the wagon and fill it from back to front. first time I loaded the new wagon i was watching my gauge and it stopped way light on the front, got up and looked there was all most one whole bow less in there, that much more went in the back. Never thought it made much difference but it did. JD

 

Yep, they have been pushing beans to Wichita. like you said there can be long lines there. Have been hauling quite a bit of milo up until end of week. Feedlots seem to be only ones going next week.

Interesting. In KS we can't haul that much weight. 85,500 would be it. I never thought about loading DDGs from back to front.

 

Loading it from back to front is the only way I've found to get enough weight on the wagon. I fill the back hopper just over the bows and the front hopper is full going forward to just in front of the second bow, and that gets me just under 33 ton. If I get this gig going into KS I'm getting rid of the pusher axle on the truck and just keep the triple axle wagon.

 

Hi everybody. We've had excitement the last couple of days at work. The main scales are frozen so they've been weighing all the trucks on 2 of the pit scales. Yesterday afternoon a van going on the wrong pit took out the overhead door and a full wall on the pit house. This morning another dry van took out some cinder blocks on a different pit house. These guys have been lining up back to the guard shack. It makes it hard because I'm loading on the dryer side and dumping on the mill side and these guys block the drives. Alot of tight spots. It warmed up today so maybe we'll be back to normal shortly. This has been the coldest winter here anybody can remember.

 

Ya I live just a few miles south of you at Elgin. It's about 5 miles west of Tuckerman. This winter has been a dandy

 

Been a cold one here too. It's been one of the busiest for me also go figure. Hauling milo next week.

 

I would like to find another 78 inch Timpte and stay home. But the last time I checked on a Riceland card they weren't is issuing any. But that was last winter. I think a man could watch bulk loads and take a good out to Hereford once in while and make it

 

Yep I know right where Elgin is. I used to go through there on the way to Charlotte and Batesville.

 

Yep that's the one.

 

Haven't posted in quite a while. It's been a busy spring so far this year...best in a long time. Main reason been so busy is we had both a good wheat harvest and fall harvest last year. Little worried about this year, have had very little moisture for the wheat. If we don't have a good wheat harvest it really hurts the hauling until fall harvest.