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Post by sd51555 on Apr 15, 2017 23:05:25 GMT -6
I enjoyed this catch all for random things back at the old joint. Today, I got a frantic call from a customer who ran into his gas barrel and busted off his plumbing. He got the spill under control and down to a drip within a minute or two, but we had to get the gas out and get the plumbing fixed. Nobody was around except me, so I ran and got some empty diesel additive drums I knew were clean and flew out there to help. We used a transfer pump to get most of it out to where we could strap the tank to his FEL SCUT JD and tilt it back. Took about four hours, but we got it all re-plumbed and pumped back in. I'm glad he called me because he was going to use a non-petroleum pipe dope on his plumbing. I had some in my truck thankfully. It'd be a real turd to get all that put together and it starts leaking.
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Post by nhmountains on Apr 16, 2017 0:51:43 GMT -6
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Post by nhmountains on Apr 16, 2017 1:29:55 GMT -6
I enjoyed this catch all for random things back at the old joint. Today, I got a frantic call from a customer who ran into his gas barrel and busted off his plumbing. He got the spill under control and down to a drip within a minute or two, but we had to get the gas out and get the plumbing fixed. Nobody was around except me, so I ran and got some empty diesel additive drums I knew were clean and flew out there to help. We used a transfer pump to get most of it out to where we could strap the tank to his FEL SCUT JD and tilt it back. Took about four hours, but we got it all re-plumbed and pumped back in. I'm glad he called me because he was going to use a non-petroleum pipe dope on his plumbing. I had some in my truck thankfully. It'd be a real turd to get all that put together and it starts leaking. I bet he had a few tense moments when that leak started. How many gallons of fuel in there to pump out? What's that screened in roofed thing in the background?
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Post by sd51555 on Apr 16, 2017 2:49:56 GMT -6
That is a relic of 20th century farming called the corn crib.
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Post by kabic on Apr 16, 2017 7:21:04 GMT -6
My father in law still uses a corn crib. His is a rectangular design that he can drive his skid steer in when he is loading the truck to get corn ground after its dried.
Of course he picks his corn with a 2 row new idea picker that is attached to Oliver tractor. Guess his operation is stuck in the past.
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Post by wiscwhip on Apr 16, 2017 18:52:25 GMT -6
I have to say I'm kinda blown away with the fact that NH didn't know what a corn crib was.....the things we take for granted that other people know I guess? I suppose folks who aren't near the corn belt might have never seen one, or they have only seen the old wood sided style?
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Post by Tooln on Apr 16, 2017 23:02:44 GMT -6
I was thinking the same thing.
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Post by Tooln on Apr 16, 2017 23:16:37 GMT -6
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Post by sd51555 on Apr 16, 2017 23:18:27 GMT -6
We were never rich enough to have a self propelled picker. We pulled with the 3010 and borrowed the picker from my uncle.
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 17, 2017 4:13:54 GMT -6
I read the second sentence and thought we were talking about an ambulance call.
Guy ran into a gas barrel and cut off his plumbing.
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Post by Foggy on Apr 17, 2017 6:43:00 GMT -6
^ Remembering some old Ford mounted two-row pickers. Used to be the farmers would coat the "snapping rolls" with a mix of some resin and grit to grab the corn ears better and pull them from the stalks. We sold a "kit" of that stuff. The farmers would have problems with the pickers plugging as they would feed it too fast (too much ground speed and too big of a crop). Anyway......every year somebody would lose their arms by pushing a stick into the snapping rolls from the tractor seat. The rolls would grab the stick and pull it so fast it would also take the farmers arm. Happened allot.....and lots of close calls.
Those two-row mounted pickers were pretty dangerous machines.
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Post by kabic on Apr 17, 2017 7:25:23 GMT -6
Very similar to what I mentioned above.
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Post by sd51555 on Apr 17, 2017 10:16:21 GMT -6
Roger has some turkeys in his grove.
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Post by nhmountains on Apr 17, 2017 17:11:58 GMT -6
I have to say I'm kinda blown away with the fact that NH didn't know what a corn crib was.....the things we take for granted that other people know I guess? I suppose folks who aren't near the corn belt might have never seen one, or they have only seen the old wood sided style? Nope, We have silos and the cement bunkers here in the northeast. Never seen a corn crib. I've seen photos of the old southern corn cribs with the splayed sides. Silos are few and far between now.
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Post by kabic on Apr 17, 2017 17:18:46 GMT -6
The cement bunkers are what the "real" farmers are using here to when corn is cut to silage. silos are almost as obsolete as the corn crib.
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