Grain truck mistake!!!

JD Seller · Feb 6, 2013

Here is fellow that had a bad day!!!

Here is the news paper article on what happened.

"The procedure for offloading a grain truck includes pulling into the elevator, opening the dump gate and hydraulically lifting the bed until empty. It also requires lowering the bed before driving away. The last step is critical, as illustrated here.

Unfortunately this particular driver forgot to lower the dump trailer before driving out of the stall and as a result the bed broke the dump valves for the overhead bin. The bin was full of wheat and the rest is a very messy history."

pete black · Feb 6, 2013

hey jd, school us on how it is corrected.

tomstractorsandtoys1 · Feb 6, 2013

It is going to take more than a scoop shovel to clean up that. And I thought one half a bin full from my Deere 95 that went on the ground because someone did not close the door on a gravity wagon was alot.LOL Thanks for posting. Tom

samn40 · Feb 6, 2013

When he is emptying out the air cleaner it will remind him not to do that again!!!
Sam

JD Seller · Feb 6, 2013

Always put the bed down before moving!!!

I guess give the driver a scoop shovel and tell him to have at it. LOL.

the tractor vet · Feb 6, 2013

Yep he sure was not a old coal hauler , lack of experience pullen a BUCKET . One of the first things ya learned BEFORE you released the brakes and put the truck in gear was to LOOK BACK and see where the bed was .Then make sure the PTO was in the OFF position and the uppy downy was in the down . I sure would nt want to be in his shoes and have to call the boss . And have to tell hi m YOU AIN'T GOING TO BELIEVE THIS SHUT but i just ripped the bottom out of a grain bin and YOUR truck is now under 50000 bushel of wheat.

JayinNY · Feb 6, 2013

That explaines the sign at the local pizza shop, prices going up do to cost of wheat prices going up! Lol

notjustair · Feb 6, 2013

Grandma was in a hurry once and pulled out of the elevator when the box wasn't far enough down. She broke the handle off the grain scoop that was sticking up through the cattle rack holders. Looks like it could have been A LOT worse.

paul · Feb 6, 2013

Looking at the pic I figured fell aslep while loading the truck, and left the chute run.

But, banging a raised box into the bottom of the overhead bin will do that even faster I bet!

Explain what you did to the elevator, and then explain it to every one of your neighbors coming into unload and can't now..... That would be a long year to live that down.....

--->Paul

ss55 · Feb 6, 2013

How long did it take to clean it all up? Are those rain clouds in the background?

Larry NEIL · Feb 6, 2013

Wonderin if that driver was related to the total idiot that cost me $12K in 3 weeks working for me?
Hired him in '96 'cause the teamsters didn't have anybody, put ads in 3 papers and he was it. I paid scale wages and benis, last driver made $89K the year before. After riding with him for a 6 day week and out of time myself, on his own he ripped the elec. plug wires out of the detachable goosneck 4 times the 1st week. After two weeks he had forgot to raise the hyd 5th wheel stabilizer so many times that when he turned into a job, the leg slipped off the frame right through 2 brand new tires trashing them. The finale was him taking a "shortcut" on rte 45 and went over a posted bridge with a JD 690 excavator on...about 75000lbs on a 5 ton bridge, that was a little over $10K, the sign was 12' high and 18' long right next to the bridge! Flippin out just thinkin about it!

RodinNS · Feb 6, 2013

Any idea when this happened? I've had the pice for 2-1/2 years or so now and it wasn't new then...

Rod

Pete in MD · Feb 6, 2013

Bet he wishes he had a hopper bottom.

Dalet · Feb 6, 2013

(quoted from post at 23:32:07 02/06/13) Any idea when this happened? I've had the pice for 2-1/2 years or so now and it wasn't new then...

Rod

Same here. I seen that about 4-5 years ago..

bobs old iron · Feb 6, 2013

it's a funny pic, may that frieghtliner R.I.P....if the driver revs up motor, he could toss it back thru the exhaust and refill hopper,,lol

todd hamilton · Feb 7, 2013

Hmmm...exact procedure on cousin's Mack with 24' 800 bushel wet hoist. I forget the name of the trailer but it was made in the Pennsylvania coal country.

todd hamilton · Feb 7, 2013

That's an older "pre-semi" elevator like where we used to dump. Took a load of damp corn in one day they sent me to the oldest bay. I asked the kid you want the little chute or the whole gate he said "dump it in there" well it broke the main auger shaft on that station which was also connected to their most busy station. The elevator boss was not mad at me but did chew on his young helper a little.

todd hamilton · Feb 7, 2013

One other time neighbors hired a farm rookie for fall help and sent him to the elevator with a load. When he got back the old man asked to see the scale ticket to which the guy replied "what scale"???

todd hamilton · Feb 7, 2013

One of the last years we farmed cousin fell off of combine feeder house (combined was shut down) and broke his foot. We had just started shelling corn. Well anyway next morning is son in law was running combine and "we thought" the semi would hold five hoppers. My sister rode to elevator with me and I told her "we're too heavy" That load gross weight 81.5k whoops - weighmaster didn't catch us though

Harold Hubbard · Feb 7, 2013

That hits too close to home and not funny at all. Local driver spaced out with a tandem dump last summer. took down a telephone wire, which wrapped around my wife's leg, and dragged her down the road. A month in the hospital and rehab, a month at home doing nothing, two months getting herself back on her feet and lots of PT, she finally went back to work in January.

AND the guy is STILL driving.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 7, 2013

Todd, I did that with my first load of feed in 1960, heard about it for 40 years.

todd hamilton · Feb 7, 2013

Prayers uplifted

larryanderson · Feb 7, 2013

The local elevator hired a new feed delivery driver.On one of his first deliverys He emptied the whole load on the feeding floor in between the feeders as the ticket said in feeders on feeding floor.

larryanderson · Feb 7, 2013

A few years ago their was a guy that would go to a grain site load up his truck at night and deliver it to an elevator.Problem it wasnt his grain and He feel asleep, the truck ran over and he left a trail of grain that led to his arrest.I know of a now unemployed hired hand that took grain to an elevator several miles away and tried to sell it in their bosses truck .

cole in mo. · Feb 7, 2013

As my buddy, with a beer in one hand at all times would say, oops, did I do that.

fixerupper · Feb 7, 2013

More than one feed company has had to pay for replacing overhead wires on farms when the feed truck driver forgot to put the auger back down when he drove away from the bin. Jim

sHan, TN · Feb 7, 2013

something looks off in that picture.... the tractor AND the front of the trailer are both OUTSIDE the building.......and if he hit the valve and broke it he would have had to lower the trailer and then pull forward to where the truck is now, so why wouldnt he drive all the way out and not let his truck get burred???

fixerupper · Feb 7, 2013

You do wonder why he didn't drive away. The rear of the truck looks low like it's overloaded, though. Maybe the bottom of a bin dropped out and unloaded all at once. Jim

RodinNS · Feb 7, 2013

I'm more inclined to think someone was loading out and walked away while loading and forgot it... If it is a dump (and I'm not convinced it is given the proximity of the stacks to the box), it's certainly low enough to drive out of the building. That's why I tend to think it was unattended at the time.
Freightshaker would probably drive out afterwards anyway. Just clean the corn out from under it and go. Lots heavier loads been placed on them around here than that. I had 30 ton net on the back of a COE one time. Brand new 30 tonne scope wouldn't dump the load off...

Rod

36F30 · Feb 7, 2013

(quoted from post at 15:37:56 02/07/13) I'm more inclined to think someone was loading out and walked away while loading and forgot it... If it is a dump (and I'm not convinced it is given the proximity of the stacks to the box), it's certainly low enough to drive out of the building. That's why I tend to think it was unattended at the time.
Freightshaker would probably drive out afterwards anyway. Just clean the corn out from under it and go. Lots heavier loads been placed on them around here than that. I had 30 ton net on the back of a COE one time. Brand new 30 tonne scope wouldn't dump the load off...

Rod

Having upgraded a bunch of these setups to handle modern yields and transport methods usually from 5,000bph to 12,000bph, I agree this is definitely a loadout mistake. If this truck had a dump box on it you would be able to see it in the doorway. Judging by the position of the cab they were loading the front hopper of a trailer. The gate may have broken but I don't see where the truck could have done it. And by looking at the picture there is no overhead bin directly above. there would be a loadout spout with a gate, probably cable and chainwheel operated. A broken cable on a open ceiling height gate would do this in a heartbeat. No way to get to it to shut it until the grain stops flowing.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Feb 7, 2013

That looks bad, but he is still lucky. I saw the results of a guy that forgot to lower his gravel trailer when leaving a Ready mix plant. He took out a major power feeder supplying a couple hundred businesses in Ofallon, Mo., in addition his truck burning to a crisp. along with a phone company cable serving a few hundred customers. The one good thing was that he jumped far enough clear of the truck he was ok, and no one was injured.

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