Beginning of the season vs end

[JaredT]

We are just about done runing hard for about 8 to 9 days bringing in 185 acres of corn averaging 230+ bushels averaging 17 to 19 hour days. At the beginning of the season I climb in the this old girl and jump out, by the end of the season I pull myself up into this thing and actually back down the steps with BOTH hands on the rails. I made myself laugh when I just got out of it. I hope all of you are finishing harvest safely.

[dale560]

Nice older truck you have. There is one on a pifer auction up here in south west ND next month. Here are a couple pics 

And yes those cabovers get harder to get in everyday. Unless you are young and skinny

[Big Bud guy]

Cabovers are cool until you have use them.  I have two of them and use one for hay hauling. If I had to use it anymore then that I’d hire my hauling done. 

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1 hour ago, dale560 said:

There is one on a pifer auction up here in south west ND next month.

 

 

Have a link?

[JaredT]

1 minute ago, Big Bud guy said:

Cabovers are cool until you have use them.  I have two of them and use one for hay hauling. If I had to use it anymore then that I’d hire my hauling done. 

I know what u mean, but ours were super cheap. We bought a 28' dump trailer and the guy told us that only way we got it was complete with the tractor. We thought the trailer was cheap enough without the tractor. The one in the pic was free with a blown front diff, we found a used set for $100 and she was running

 

 

[dale560]

11 minutes ago, Powered by IH said:

Have a link?

I will have to have kids show me how to. But google Pifer auction nd. It is on the last pages of their December online sale. In Hebron nd. 

[1586 Jeff]

Nice 4070A!!

I love the front hitch on it.  Is that factory or custom built?

[hillman]

2 hours ago, Powered by IH said:

Have a link?

I wanted to see it so I looked it up

Pifer's Equipment

 

[Reichow7120]

4 hours ago, JaredT said:

We are just about done runing hard for about 8 to 9 days bringing in 185 acres of corn averaging 230+ bushels averaging 17 to 19 hour days. At the beginning of the season I climb in the this old girl and jump out, by the end of the season I pull myself up into this thing and actually back down the steps with BOTH hands on the rails. I made myself laugh when I just got out of it. I hope all of you are finishing harvest safely.

Classic survivor there.

You're more ambitious than i am anymore. No way am I spending a fall getting in and out of a cabover. 

The amount of times in and out of that cab. Especially if im loading out at the bins and am pulling ahead and then getting out to watch when I have to move again would get old in a hurry. 

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2 hours ago, hillman said:

I wanted to see it so I looked it up

Pifer's Equipment

 

Thanks, I couldn't find it!👍

[Sask466]

Cabovers and grain farms are a good combo. 
It does my heart good to see you running an old IH hard for a couple of weeks each year.  

Reminds me of Toby’s song:  “I ain’t as good as I was once was, but I’m as good once as I ever was”

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12 minutes ago, Sask466 said:

Cabovers and grain farms are a good combo. 
It does my heart good to see you running an old IH hard for a couple of weeks each year.  

Reminds me of Toby’s song:  “I ain’t as good as I was once was, but I’m as good once as I ever was”

Amen, those trucks just flat out work.

[Lazy WP]

7 hours ago, JaredT said:

We are just about done runing hard for about 8 to 9 days bringing in 185 acres of corn averaging 230+ bushels averaging 17 to 19 hour days. At the beginning of the season I climb in the this old girl and jump out, by the end of the season I pull myself up into this thing and actually back down the steps with BOTH hands on the rails. I made myself laugh when I just got out of it. I hope all of you are finishing harvest safely.

I find it interesting how different areas haul grain. I have been to 8 or 9 elevators this fall, locally, and I think there’s only 2 hydraulic dump trailers. Everything else is hoppers. I watched 1 end dump trying to find flat enough ground to dump at a Milo pile. It was fixing to get ugly. 

[dale560]

6 minutes ago, Lazy WP said:

I find it interesting how different areas haul grain. I have been to 8 or 9 elevators this fall, locally, and I think there’s only 2 hydraulic dump trailers. Everything else is hoppers. I watched 1 end dump trying to find flat enough ground to dump at a Milo pile. It was fixing to get ugly. 

Go to the red river valley of nd mn during beet harvest. You will see every type of truck from beet bottom, end dump, straight truck and the factory plus some farmers have side dump. Where they tip truck sideways and open entire side cage. Years ago when potatoes were more popular you would see potato beds hanging on stands to be switched out with the grain box. They would swap box type on tandem trucks for each crop .

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

It’s all hopper bottoms here, with the exception of one elevator that unloads a lot of wheat. They get a lot of wheat in van trailers. Some trucking company must be back hauling it to Kansas City from western Kansas or Colorado. I’m not sure how they load the trailers wherever they are coming from. 

[Chester5732]

I would gladly use a truck like that if I had a combine tall enough to unload into it. 

[Lazy WP]

3 minutes ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said:

It’s all hopper bottoms here, with the exception of one elevator that unloads a lot of wheat. They get a lot of wheat in van trailers. Some trucking company must be back hauling it to Kansas City from western Kansas or Colorado. I’m not sure how they load the trailers wherever they are coming from. 

I will try to get you pictures of the loading pipe at some of the other elevators. Basically it’s a spout from the distributor with an elbow on the bottom to launch the wheat to the front of the van. 

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

4 minutes ago, Lazy WP said:

I will try to get you pictures of the loading pipe at some of the other elevators. Basically it’s a spout from the distributor with an elbow on the bottom to launch the wheat to the front of the van. 

Is that picture at Bartlett River Rail? It looks just like it if it’s not. We have been hauling a lot of corn in there. 

[Lazy WP]

1 minute ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said:

Is that picture at Bartlett River Rail? It looks just like it if it’s not. We have been hauling a lot of corn in there. 

I think so, it’s been a couple years since I took them. The couple who were driving the truck were FREAKING OUT watching it go up. 

[Sask466]

17 minutes ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said:

It’s all hopper bottoms here, with the exception of one elevator that unloads a lot of wheat. They get a lot of wheat in van trailers. 

Wheat?  I would think the sides wouldn’t take the weight?  I have never heard of that.  It’s very interesting to hear about the regional differences on this board.
 

 99% hopper bottoms here.  

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

11 minutes ago, Sask466 said:

Wheat?  I would think the sides wouldn’t take the weight?  I have never heard of that.  It’s very interesting to hear about the regional differences on this board.
 

 99% hopper bottoms here.  

Yes, wheat. It’s been coming in that way for a lot of years now. I’m not sure how many bushels they get in there. I couldn’t believe it the first time I saw it either. 

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15 minutes ago, Lazy WP said:

I think so, it’s been a couple years since I took them. The couple who were driving the truck were FREAKING OUT watching it go up. 

I would too, is there anything to hold the truck down or is it just sheer weight of the truck?

[dale560]

They used to load flatbeds here to go to Duluth or barley into Minneapolis. The flatbeds were looking for back hauls after hauling freight up. They would put rails and either plywood 4 ft sides covered by a strong tarp.  Later they had strong tarp like sides. A couple guys here started hauling grain down and beer back up was their weekly route. Later on the convertible hopper bottoms that turn into a makeshift van trailer is what they used. They would load terminal durum to go to Duluth to be sent overseas or malting barley for the many beer makers in that area 

[Chester5732]

28 minutes ago, Lazy WP said:

I will try to get you pictures of the loading pipe at some of the other elevators. Basically it’s a spout from the distributor with an elbow on the bottom to launch the wheat to the front of the van. 

It’s been a lot of years since I unloaded a truck that way.  

[Lazy WP]

1 minute ago, Powered by IH said:

I would too, is there anything to hold the truck down or is it just sheer weight of the truck?

They have hydraulic blocks that raise to hold the truck from rolling backwards. I think just weight holds the truck in place on this hoist. The one at, I think Ardent Mills, in Denver they have to chain the truck down now. Several years ago they lost one off the side when it was standing up. 
You see them dumping van loads of potatoes like that in Missouri. I can’t remember what town I saw them doing it.