Tractors-Wagons and Ethanal plants--

big tee · Oct 10, 2020

I got semi corn hauling duty again this year and it seems like every year a tractor and wagon get tangled up with something at the ethanol plant. The doors to the dump pits are made for trucks but they still allow tractors and wagons. This happened yesterday--A guy came thru and dumped and went through the exit door and instead of going straight he took a right after the first wagon went through the door and hooked the frame with the second--said he didn't know it and kept on going!---Tee

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bent the door frame all to he11

tomturkey · Oct 10, 2020

Its that time of year, in a hurry, gotta go, get ur done, thinking of the next move before this one is complete. Sometimes it costs a life!!!!!! This time only a bent up building. BECAREFUL out there. gobble

fixerupper · Oct 10, 2020

I call harvest time at the elevator amateur hour. I saw a tractor with a dual only on the left side for plowing end up sitting almost crossways in the entrance door to the pit when the driver forgot the dual was sticking out there when he drove in. He was going too fast to boot so the momentum of the wagons helped push him cockeyed.

paul · Oct 10, 2020

Wife was saying, man the amuture semi drivers are going past the place fast this season, everyone in a hurry. And we are early this fall.

Gonna get someone hurt.

Paul

Wheat47 · Oct 10, 2020

Going to start running a beet defoiliator tomorrow, a first for me.
The loaded beet trucks have to enter/cross a fairly busy interscetion. There have been
2-3 accidents at that crossing in the last week. I'm glad I'm going to
be staying in the field!!!
Some people just don't understand how slow and big trucks can be!!
And tomorrow, the sugar factory is cutting the farmers loose. They can pull all they want!
At least until it gets too warm, rains a bunch, or the factory can't keep up.
So there will be bunches of trucks out there!! I'm sure there will be long lines
to unload at the pilers!!

caterpillar guy · Oct 11, 2020

I don't understand the reason for putting scales and door so small that a set of duals will not go through doors at elevators. One here has the posts so close a tractor with duals can't get on the scales. Yet for a long time it was the only scale there to weight both grain and fertilizer. So a guy would have to go with a pickup and pull it home maybe only a mile then rehitch such foolishness for just a mile haul. Some of these wagons are big enough you need the duals to pull and stop them especially if it is wet in the field. Don't tell me about shouldn't be there if it is wet. Cutting beans in MI in Nov. It is needed to get them out before it gets wetter. We've been mudding out crops for the last 5 or more years. Some of it is tiled and working.

Russ from MN · Oct 11, 2020

I drove beet truck for 3 years after I retired, then just decided it wasn't worth it, didn't pay very well, unpredictable work schedule, and there were accidents and an occasional death. The first year one of my co-workers drove in front of a train and died.

Farmer Rock · Oct 11, 2020

There have been tri-axle slurry trucks running from 5am to 8PM every single day for 3 weeks down our road.it is a two lane road of course,and they come from both directions doing at least 65mph in a 35mph zone.those trucks are close to ten foot wide with the super singles.not to mention they can not legally drive on our road.it's a shame they give these guys cdl's..they are Accidents waiting to happen.

Rock

1948CaseVAI · Oct 11, 2020

Sadly the driver of a loaded grain semi blew a stop sign at a county road intersection two weeks ago and killed four children and their mother in a Ford Expedtion. A bit north of Viola KS.

All but one child were DRT (dead right there), but one lived a day in the hospital. It's a big deal in a community where the local town has a population of 128.

paul · Oct 11, 2020

I am on a good but curved tar county road. There have been a great many detours the past 5 years, currently 2 township roads go past me as they are washed out. Last 2 years a state highway was detoured past me. Another smaller state highway was past me in spring. Many of the semi drivers have figured out the 20 miles of my county road is shorter than the 27 miles of state highways to get from here to the twin cities.

Traffic has been terrible for a nice but very curvy rolling hills county road. With lots of farm and tractor machinery traffic.

A coop elevator with feed mill is a mile from me, so it brings a lot of semis and gravity wagons all year round.

Just really busy from when I was a kid.

Paul

Wheat47 · Oct 11, 2020

Ran the defoiliater today. Guy was short one truck till 10 AM, so lots of wait time.
I go so far ahead of him, He stopped me at 11AM, said go home, have dinner with wife and come back
about 3PM. So I did. Easy job!!
He just called and said I need to be there at 5:45am to get a 1/2 round ahead
of the lifter! No problem!! About 55-60 deg, but the darn wind drives
you crazy!!! No rain to speak of yet.
When I went home at 11AM, I drove past the piler and there were 10 trucks waiting to dump.
Two sided piler.

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