Ever have one of those days??

So I went to the neighbors (7am) to get 3 ton of corn for my pigs. Got home and almost immediately the auger I was using to unload the truck (40 ft to get the corn into the top of an overhead bin feedmill)broke. Climbed the mill to check the top, everything there seemed alright, decided there must be a shear bolt somewhere in the middle that was gone on the drive shaft.
Had my son lift me in the loader to check the bolts, found out the loader needed more fluid to go all the way up. Had to drive to town (14 miles) to get fluid since I found out I was out. Finally found that all the bolts were fine. Determined that the end shaft at the top had broken a weld holding the drive gear shaft to the extension shaft.
Hauled my little 110 welder to the top of the feedmill with a rope. Turned it on and had no power. Found the extension cord had shorted and tripped the breaker. Went to fix it and the breaker wouldn't reset, tested it with a voltmeter and found it was getting power, played with it a while and got it to reset. Made the weld.
By the time I got the auger working discovered the door on the truck had been left open enough that during all of this the battery had worn down and couldn't start the truck to raise the bed. Ended up shoveling the corn ito the auger just to get it done. While I was up on top of the mix-mill I found that one of the downspouts to the bins had seperated from the diversion box. Have a guy coming tomorrow afternoon(ox in the ditch)with a bucket truck so I can get to it.

To keep this rant tractor related there was a farmall a powering the auger.
picture is of the setup this past summer when I was unloading wheat, feed mill is in the background.

Yup. But not that bad in a while.

Well it sounds like you had a full day dmiller. I remember a man I worked with always had this saying; "Momma told me I would have days like this but she didn't say how many".

Yep and those city boys have a bad day when someone parks in their space. GOOD NEWS, doesn't look like the world is coming to an end today. Hope your tomorrow is better.

tough one for sure,,tommorrow will be better,,,hit the sack,you must be tired after all that,,,any swearing go on today? lol

I feel for you. It seems like some days it does not pay to get out of bed.

Yep, some days you're the dog, some days you're the fire hydrant.

HAD to go to work one day this week to see if would be as much fun as had been here at home but disappointed as nothing broke.

They said: "Smile, Things Could Be Worse".

So I smiled, and things definitely GOT WORSE.

:>(

Certainly a tough day! Do you have a breaker on the list for next trip to town?

Amen.

hate to say, but the green grass area you are in is much 'easier' than many other places right now. We are walking on 3" of ice. My tractor turned sideways in the pole barn yesterday. A Lady I sell hay to broke her arm on ice 2 weeks ago. It is against the 'law' to spread manure on snow, so I have 18" of pen pack in the barn. The limbs knocked down by the ice storm are frozen to the ground, so clean up is only 80%. Of course, where it melts, it is mud. Pick your poison.

You have 3" of ice in the pole barn?

Well at least you didn't drive your truck. Through the front wall of your apartment. Like I did.

yes. It is an open sided barn. I don't have doors on yet, snow blew in, melted and refroze. The floor pitches down some since it is not 100% level yet either. It is a work in progress. The part time farm work has to PAY for everything, so certain large cost projects take several years to complete.

Same weather here, the picture was from Aug.
Today, high of 15, winchill of -10, 3 inches of new snow. South Central Montana.
What part of PA are you in? My wife grew up on a dairy about 12 miles from Johnstown on the pike to Jennerstown.