Posted by Ken Macfarlane on January 31, 2013 at 19:25:38 from (207.231.231.24):
I have been waiting 6 months for delivery of 2 30 ton loads of ag wood ash from a high quality source (1 to 1 lime replacement) after 3 false starts on promised delivery they finally came today, several hours late of course.
Of course we came out of a month of -20 to -30 C two days ago to +10 C and heavy rain (I think thats like 55 F or something) and my dump pads that were plowed off in the field to freeze deep turned to soup.
Truck one came to our home fields covered in ash, tells me his tarp on top wouldn't stay down since the wind gusts was 25-50 mph today. Thats good, its only 32$ a ton, feel free to let it blow. driver didn't want to back it in so I scraped 2-3" of mud off the road so he could get in frontwards but he still got stuck. We got in a jam and the only way he could get out was dumping in the neighbours field which we got permission to do. Tore our yard and driveway up trying to get out (not his fault, just due to the thaw) Pile went everywhere, 2" deep but maybe 50 feet wide. Over the driveway etc.
Truck two driver didn't want to wait at all at the start so I sent him off with a guide to the field. He didn't stop to get instructions and backed the truck off the field road into a water hole that the creek was overflowing through. He then tried to push himself out with the dump action of the trailer but buried the trailer to the axles.
We finish up, go to try and pull him out, no luck. Wrecker charges 175$ per hour and is 2 hours round trip, they didn't want to pay, neither did I. Truckers both decide the load is being dumped as is. Land owner is sitting in their truck watching looking unimpressed.
They leave with their money, I go get the tractor and start clearing the snow out of the creek.
Too windy to tarp it so I'm watching big cyclones of my ash blow. Get back tonight to tarp it, water has soaked up a good foot into the pile, ash mud is oozing out. We tarp it up and head home.
Tomorrow I have to decide with the land owner if I'm going to hire an escavator to trench around the pile or move the pile to where it was supposed to be dumped. The temp is dropping to -18 or so tonight so the wet part of the pile won't be going anywhere.
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