hello everyone it's a beautiful morning
out I'm here at the main farm at
Rockville I am about to hop in the 46:40
we are going back to the upper farm
today hopefully we can finish the second
half Travis left in the truck he's on
his way up he's gonna start shelling I'm
gonna take the 46 bag
we're gonna fill up the carts since this
is one of Travis's farms that we're
trying to finish and this is the
furthest most farm away we are going to
be loading into semis and then they're
gonna be hauling them hauling grain down
to the grain up grain elevator into B
okay so I'm gonna take rocket with me
but we're gonna get rolling it's a
beautiful morning out we just got the
46:40 and the easy tutorial green cart
filled we're working on filling the 82
and the Brant green cart so I gotta hop
up and I have to lock down the arm on
the easy trail grain cart I'll show you
once I get the bulb what I have to do
oh that's hard on the knees alright
alright so now I'm standing up on the
grain cart
I got a load full of corn here waiting
for the semi I'm gonna have to walk over
and get the 82 once I lock this up but
I'm standing next to the auger I have it
extended now what I have to do is I have
an eleven sixteenths bolt that I have to
stick through where the auger meets the
bottom section as you can see there's
that hole there so the problem with this
grain cart and probably one of the
bigger reasons that I want to replace it
with something bigger and better and
newer is that when you extend this auger
it doesn't have enough pressure to hold
it shut so what happens especially with
soybeans not so bad with corn but we are
locking it up just to be safe with the
corn because then we have to get in
there and dig it all out but what
happens is when you push those when you
lock this up there is still a gap in
here corn starts to leak out and it
starts to push it open now as you're
unloading and then what happens is all
sudden there's this loud bang and this
auger stops and then well you have to
unplug it which is a pretty painful and
tedious protestant process to do and
that's probably one of the bigger
reasons that i'm sure most of us would
love to trade this thing off someday and
it was nice when we first got it it made
us to realize how much we need to start
using more grain carts but it's just not
good for well you have to get out and do
this so why that actually happens I
think not only because their whole setup
for locking it up is kind of flimsy
we've had to do some patch work on this
in the past but also the auger is
straight up you'll notice on the brent
that the auger actually folds up and it
comes back down
that pressure the hinge is on the upper
side and then where it comes down is
where all the weight of the augers
coming down on to and then that way it
kind of does a better job at locking it
together and then we don't have any
problems with the upper auger slipping
so stick this through there and lock it
up
that really doesn't need to be that
tight at all it just has to lock it
where it's at so in that way it can't
get pushed open when you do this all it
really needs to do is just be finger
tight I don't really need to tighten it
down too much
but we actually have the 1116 socket and
wrench for is because after you do
unload it does have a tendency to push
apart and stay there so that bullet
right now is finger tight by the time we
unload with this it will be so tight
that you have to have the ratchet to get
it off so I'm going to climb down now
and I'm gonna start walking over to the
82 hopefully Travis can get it loaded
right before the semi comes we got to do
all this over here yet and also across
the road hopefully we can get done with
this farm today
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well we really didn't have to wait long
Travis just pulled over here now Travis
is gonna start unloading I'm probably
gonna happen to 46 and then little dad
first because it's a little bit more
tedious trying to unload at the 46
because the auger doesn't reach as high
as this one does so I have more mobility
with the 82 and I can move around a lot
faster that way I can just dump that one
and hop into this tractor so he's gonna
back in here and then Travis is gonna
keep going hopefully we can keep getting
trucks about how about like we have
gotten for this first one so we got
quite a ways to go
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this makes three loads that we've taken
out so far
Travis is unloading 46 into the cart the
truck now unfortunately we probably
won't be able to get a truck again until
Monday
so this should be about it for tonight
Jeff's might fill up my cart and my cart
said fall not totally sure but being at
is as there's the weekend and I won't be
here tomorrow so I'm going down to
Dyersville so the last semi is leaving
now
we're gonna finish what's left on this
side of the road and then we're gonna
call it quits
since it is the weekend and I won't be
here tomorrow because I'll have that
show and it's supposed to rain which
works out pretty good we're just gonna
leave the stuff here until Monday and
then we can pick up where we left off
what we have across the road shouldn't
take more than three hours so Travis is
running down there and then we're gonna
move all the stuff back to where it
needs to be for the night and we're
gonna call her good all right there you
go