wee bit of rain
hey everybody its Ryan welcome back to How farms work today we are in the sukup
bin and it looks like we got about one more load left to haul out but before we
have to start cleaning up the floor of the bin so we're gonna fire this thing
up load the truck up and I'm gonna see how much room is left on it
if there isn't enough to fit the rest of what's on the floor and there I might
just say let's take it out into buek and I'll haul a partial load back but this
is the last of the corn that we got to haul out a common question that I've
gotten asked more recently is why we don't scoop up behind the power sweep
because people have been telling me that it's much faster than just letting it
all run out and that's cleaning it out at the end which it may be however with
just me hauling help the corn I would be the only one in here scooping it out and
since this has been like four or five loads I think it's about four it's been
where we've had the power sweep running every time we'd want to vote into the
bin we'd have to be in here scooping it out behind the power sweep so travis has
been off doing his own thing and rather than have him sit around and wait for me
at the end of every load what we think is a better decision is to just clean
out with the power sweeps to the bins as much as we can and then at the end clean
both of them out so we haven't cleaned out the sukkah bin yet either
and that way we really only have to spend one day or one part of a day
cleaning out the bend so we don't have to keep climbing in here and getting the
dust masks out and whatever else not so on some bins like our GSI bin it has an
auger that's kind of like power sweep except it doesn't run around the bin
itself you have to climb in and pushed around the bin so with the power sweep
it's and this is why I don't really recommend climbing in a bin with the
power sweep is because once you finish sweeping out the corn in here they break
loose so you're gonna have to either hop out quick
or keep jumping over the power sweep which they move around the bend at a
pretty good click so that's just not something that I would really advise
because it is a little bit more dangerous and some people have mentioned
why we don't scoop out the power sweep as it's going around the bend because
that would be a lot faster like I had mentioned I would be the only one in
here doing so unless Travis waited for me every time we'd be climbing in here
multiple times before every load and where we would also be doing more work
because look at the pile of corn our sleeve hasn't picked up yet so sure call
me lazy but I think that it's a lot safer just to let the power sweep around
around and at the end go around and sweep and scoop everything into the
center it really doesn't take a style that long if you're cleaning out a lot
of these bins I mean I could see why you'd want to save every moment that you
can but for us it's just not really worth the risk reward of someone to get
in hurt and me climbing in here and trying to scoop everything out not
having someone there to watch me to make sure that nothing bad happens because
like I said once those power sweeps break out and they start going around
the bin they do move at a pretty good pace so do you say we hop out fire the
power sweep up and see how much corn we've got let the sweep run around clean
up as much corn as it can and then we'll start cleaning it out
there's a bit more than one load that's a good problem
the power sweep has gone around the bend a couple times now let's see how fast
she's moving seems like it's pretty well gotten
everything she can get
let's count how many times she can go around in a minute
so right now she's going around the bend about once every 28 seconds
but we're all empty now and we can turn it off first you guys fit up our auto
motor which shuts on some sweep on the inside this is a fork right now because
we're going to turn it right back on again anyway
so now it's time to go get some sweets sweeps and some shovels the power sweep
has pretty well gotten everything she's gonna get on her own now looking at the
floor of the bin we're really only one or two kernels of corn thick so it makes
the job of sweeping and scooping it out a heck of a lot easier and a heck of a
lot faster at the end I know that some people prefer to scoop along as it goes
a lot around the bend that's perfectly fine if that's what you want to do maybe
the way that we do it isn't the best way to do it but I mean I guess we just
prefer it so all right Travis is now you're gonna start sweeping this thing
out and we're gonna go over to the Sukup and do the same thing will tend to do is
push the corn up into piles and then just kind of let it hop out turn the
power sweep on and then let it sweep it in it makes the job a heck of a lot
easier faster so let's get to work
now the bin is all cleaned out and it's ready for fall we've got the power sweep
over the sumps so that we can open the doors and drain the corn out from on top
of the power sweep I'm gonna disengage the power sweep and then I'm gonna run
the auger underneath and then that'll basically get all the corn out of the
bins so no mice or anything can get in here and cause any problems so we're
gonna head over and do the souq up now
that only took us about an hour there you have it folks we just finished
cleaning out both of the 20,000 bushel bins now what we have left to haul down
to gavel on is a few thousand soybeans including two thousand and five bushels
of my own probably be doing that at least all dads as soon as the river
opens which right now I think they're saying like June 1st which is pretty
late but as soon as the river opens we're probably gonna load them up and
send them down as far as the beans of mine go I'm gonna hold out to see if the
price improves at all right now today I think the price for beans is 741 in
Dubuque and that's with the basis taking off that's cash price so not too good
during harvest I could have contracted it for 8:40 so I've lost a dollar on all
the beans that I've stored which at the time I didn't really want to store them
but they were pretty high moisture we threw in that bin and we ran the fan on
him last fall and this spring and it got him down to I think they're 12 and a
half percent moisture I think they have to be around 13 or under 13 I should say
so they're not taking any beans until the river opens so I guess we just have
to wait them out but this is gonna be going down to Dubuque in the morning cuz
gavel on isn't accepting grain right now but yeah with that and I should be about
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