Farmerboy72 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Always be sure to open tarp on the semi trailer BEFORE you start loading corn!🤦😲 I guess I needed the exercise shoveling corn! 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reichow7120 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 4 minutes ago, Farmerboy72 said: Always be sure to open tarp on the semi trailer BEFORE you start loading corn!🤦😲 I guess I needed the exercise shoveling corn! Or make sure the trap door Or door on a gravity wagon is shut. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaredT Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 I could see that happening to me, but I'd rather watch it happening to someone else🤣 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitty Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 And make sure you shut the clean grain elevator, tailings elevator and grain hopper drain before starting to combine 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkandcattle Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Wife would say I should have waited until the 29th 😀 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepoweshiekfarmalls Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 The sump door on the auger cart too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearclash Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 23 minutes ago, Farmerboy72 said: Always be sure to open tarp on the semi trailer BEFORE you start loading corn!🤦😲 I guess I needed the exercise shoveling corn! Hey, it could be you posting that you forgot to roll the tarp on a side dump before dumping it -- such omission usually results in an overturned trailer and possibly tractor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TractormanMike.mb Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Might also want to include the door on the tmr mixer. It REALLY makes a mess of things when the feed slide is in the up position...or so I heard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TractormanMike.mb Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 This one happened on a neighboring farm. A worker hooked up to a fertilizer buggy to go spread a load. Drove all the way from the farm to the field, a distance of about ten miles, with the driven wheel on the drive tire. grass grew really good on the road side for a couple years after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH OAK Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 1 hour ago, nepoweshiekfarmalls said: The sump door on the auger cart too! I did that first day of bean harvest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermechanic Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 try loading 22 tons of blacktop on top of the tarp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takn4aFool Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 don't forget to open the vent on a tanker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtfireman85 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Quick dump left open on the pumper/tanker… what a mess🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotsaIHCs Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Don't forget to retract your combine unload auger. I was on a service call to recharge the a/c on an IH combine about 20 or so years ago. It was an older model. Maybe a 715ish era. He saw me in his yard and pulled out of the field and drove past the yard light. Hit the pole and broke it with the auger. And of course bent the auger up in the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Plow Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 ....remember to shut the unloader OFF before pulling back into 6 rows of corn with the 1460......of course it was swung back and I didn't notice for longer than I'd care to admit.... needless to say, that always gets double checked now, and always look into bottom of tank to see a pile start to form. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmall666 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 NEVER NEVER WALK AWAY WITH SILO UNLOADER RUNNING.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G. Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 6 hours ago, lotsaIHCs said: Don't forget to retract your combine unload auger. I was on a service call to recharge the a/c on an IH combine about 20 or so years ago. It was an older model. Maybe a 715ish era. He saw me in his yard and pulled out of the field and drove past the yard light. Hit the pole and broke it with the auger. And of course bent the auger up in the process. This reminds me of back in the day- a neighbor had a brand new Gleaner L. Some how when it was parked in the shed, the unloading auger deployed when he fired it up to bring it out of the shed. It damaged the auger and some rafters in the shed by the time he stopped moving. I was out in his barnyard when it happened. After hearing the racket including barn rafters getting splintered and destroyed I ran into the shed to see what was going on. Neighbor had gotten out of the cab and was down on the floor checking out the carnage and not too happy. He did shut the combine off. I climbed up in to the cab for no particular reason. I was looking around up there and told him the switch was turned on for deploying the auger that’s why it deployed. LOL. The AC dealer came out to check it out. They had to put a whole new unloading auger on that beast. Then lo and behold a couple months later the dealer called him back and said they wanted to come out and replace the switch that deploys the unloading auger. It was a rocker switch design on the control panel. The new switch was made so you had to hold it depressed down to get the auger to deploy. The old switch design was just press and release the switch to get the auger to deploy. Apparently AC Gleaner was getting numerous reports of accidental auger deployments due to that switch being pressed and left on by accident, so they did a recall to replace it with a switch that had to be held down to deploy the auger. The next thing that happened a bit later was the dealer sent my neighbor a check reimbursing him for the expense of replacing that damaged auger. Wow. One fond memory of mine from the early 1970s…… LOL. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
856 Custom Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 If you show up somewhere unannounced and someone is operating a skidloader in front of you, don't park behind him. You might get backed into. Also always double check you disconnected the transfer hose from the 28 applicator before you take off to put another tank full on. And never trust any automatic kick off fuel nozzles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacka Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Close the tank drain before starting to milk after bulk tank was washed and at the very least go check everything as soon as you start to milk not at the very end when your hanging up the milkers. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TractormanMike.mb Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 3 hours ago, farmall666 said: NEVER NEVER WALK AWAY WITH SILO UNLOADER RUNNING.. Plugged the chute? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ny bill o Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 thanks a whole pant load for reminding me of things that might have happened to me I mean neighbors over the years. Don't think anyone has yet mentioned check the rock trap door before starting corn for the year. Not that I would know. Guy that was driving 10 wheeler hauling chopped corn forgot to roll up tarp before I started to dump into him last fall. TWICE. Second time I was checking where the tarp arms were. Jacka's bulk tank valve trick never worked right either. 4 hours ago, TractormanMike.mb said: Plugged the chute? Amazing how much silage a chute can hold when the silo is unloading near the top........ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jass1660 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Just going to throw the water hose in the sprayer while I go in for lunch….grass came back three years later. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowrosefarm Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 And, put the plug in the back of the boat before you launch it 🙃 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
int 504 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 And take PTO out of gear before hauling dump trailer under railroad bridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
td9inidaho Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Make sure the dogs on a dump truck tail gate are locked before getting loaded, if it doesn't pop open as you are being filled, it definitely will when you take off at an intersection, 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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