Posted by JD Seller on August 20, 2015 at 17:42:25 from (208.126.198.123):
It seems the older I get the more stupid stuff I figure out to do. Today I needed to go the Dyersville for some business and we still have a some corn sold with a Aug. delivery date. So I decide to haul a load of corn up to the ethanol plant while going to town. We have two 700 bushel holding bins elevated above the unload at the bins. These overhead bins have scales on them. So you can easily preload what ever weight you need to be legal in the bins. The boys traded grain trailers a few weeks ago. This was the first time I used the new trailer. It has an electric roll tarp. You have a little fob just like your car doors have. It also has hydraulic sump doors too. Same fob controls both. So I pull under the overhead bins. I open the tarp as I get out of the semi tractor. I have 550 bushels in the first bin and 450 in the second. This will make the semi be exactly axle legal. The overhead bins have a hand wheel that turns a chain driven rack gear to open the slide doors. So I spin the first bin's door wide open. I am walking back to the second bin when I start to get corn running off the front half of the trailer. WHAT THE HECK!!!!!! I run back to the first bin just in time for it to empty clear out.
So I climbed the ladder to see what had happened. Some how I must have hit the tarp close button on the fob while I was opening the overhead bin door. I had watched the tarp open all the way and stop before I got out of the cab. So anyway, I dumped 550 bushels of corn on top of the roll tarp. It had closed about 3/4 of the way. Lets just say it was NOT designed for that type of use. LOL So I managed to wreck the long roll pipe, the tarp, and 3 bows. This is on a trailer that has hauled 3 loads of corn since NEW.
Then to make it even better, enough of the tarp tore and went down into the hopper that when I opened the sump door, to dump the corn back into the pit, the tarp remains blocked the corn from coming out. So I had to shovel corn around the sides to get enough room for me to cut the tarp clear off so I could get the corn unloaded back into the pit.
So I was late for my appointment, DID NOT get the corn hauled and wiped out just at $750 worth of parts to put it back in new shape. This was all before about 10 AM. I had the rest of the day to wreck something else. LOL
So I drove to Urbana after lunch and got the parts I needed to fix it back. I just told the boys to keep walking if they thought about riding me about it. LOL So just before supper I had the new tarp on and the bent bows replaced. It really is not hard to do just did not plan to do it just yet on this "new" trailer.
Now I will just have to see what else I do that is stupid this week.
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