Today was interesting. My daughter thought she had the roll tarp secured on the auger wagon two nights ago when in the dark we left the field. That night rain and wind dislodged it and nearly blew it off the far side. Pulled it in the yard out of the wind and fixed the tarp so it would close.
Today my nephew took a full load of 60,000 lbs to the semi to unload it. It did not go well. The drive line slip clutch was turned into a cloud of smoke as he tried to unload it. Turns out there was 4,000 lbs of corn left in it from the night it rained. No choice but open the bottom trap, but before this make sure the hydraulic door over the auger is closes so the tube is able to be emptied. This did not go well.... water came out first then some corn fell out, but mostly it was packed tight. The corn should have stopped running but kept on. Big pile on the ground. Oh I had to go to Carroll to get slip clutch linings. The New Holland dealer who sells J&M carts did not have the linings. But the parts guy took the one I had brought with me and found a Bush Hog mower lining nearly identical in size, just slightly larger diameter. A quick trip to the lathe fixed that...
We eventually discover the sliding door over the bottom of the auger, and 18" diameter tube.... big.... had bent the bottom lip to the point it caught on the auger flighting, bending it as well, back on itself to. It took 3.5 hours in the shop of cutting a 1" bar loose and hoisting out the entire sliding door out of a 900 bushel wagon... 100 Lbs of steel U shaped door to the floor for a rose bud torch to heat and straighten.
Eventually we got it all back in and the guild bar w
ed back in place. So far it is working well. I got into the computer on the tractor and cut the hydraulic flow to that circuit back to 10% to slow it down to a more reasonable speed.
Going to be stiff and sore in the morning I can already tell. Took my Aleve for inflammation an hour ago.
So far no Covid symptoms yet!
