wilson ind
Well-known Member
Reading about feed mills jogged my memory. Myself and some very good employee built or preformed major work on over 200 bucket elevators. Couple that stick in mind are one in northern Ill. One hundred ninety foot tall. I promised the owner it would be ready for corn. It was90 percent finished with running in the belt without the electrician having the double chute consigner valves wired. Owner asked what would keep the 6000 bushel per hour leg from handling soybeans. I said for us nothing, however your electrical guy only has the motor wired and Not completely . The last 4 or 5 days there was a line of maybe 30 bobtail trucks in line to unload. Their wait would often be more then 2 hours.. Next morning at 8 am with the consigner held in place with a couple of cables a line of trucks begin to unload. In 30 minutes the line was gone. .In a few minutes another line was there. The other local elevator also usually had a line as long. Word quickely got around , no waiting to unload.
