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Mid west hopper bottom

Discussion in 'Tanker, Bulk and Dump Trucking Forum' started by slickWillie1980, Nov 28, 2016.

  1. Nov 28, 2016 #1
    slickWillie1980

    slickWillie1980 Medium Load Member

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    Just being curious on this one. How does the hopper work go in the grain belt. For example here in good ol NC once pickin time is over the hoppers get put up for the most part. Is the hopper work year round in the grain belt or is it seasonal like here for the most part?
     
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  3. Nov 28, 2016 #2
    wore out

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    Harvest of course is good, then there is hauling feed products through winter that is OK. Then a lull right before planting. The spring fertilizer run is outstanding if you have the contacts you wont find that on a load board or most brokers it's usually in house. Then wheat harvest which is short. After that is a looong summer drought.

    There is always pet food and bi product crap moving that smells like hell has to have a washout to load, won't unload without 2 hrs of work with a basement rate.

    I pulled hoppers a long time mine are setting.
     
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  4. Nov 28, 2016 #3
    slickWillie1980

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    I appreciate the reply. After pickin here you will have the honor of fighting for loads out of the mills you dumped at during the summer time. Last year the rates went to .14 a bushel and guys were lining up for em. Ain't making no money like that. Then right before spring you can score some fertilizer loads if you know somebody. Generally here its wheat followed by corn and then the beans. It's a good hustle and then it's like you shut the water spigot off lol
     
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    Year round for me...but I don't have to compete with anyone for grain, we buy and sell it.
    .14 cents per bushel wouldn't pay to move the truck unless you're just going a few miles---with 7 axles I can run almost 1,100 bushel, but most trucks can handle 900, so in the middle we got 1,000 bushel average....$140.00 to the truck to move it?
     
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  7. Nov 28, 2016 #5
    slickWillie1980

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    Yeah that's what the mills were paying to move it last year lmao. I wanna say it was goin down to the port which about 40 miles or so. They know they can pay that because trucks will be lined up. Once I get it out the field I shut her down. I was being curious as to what it was like in other places.
     
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  8. Nov 28, 2016 #6
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    Around here, ethanol plants fill in the gaps for end use and hauling flowable byproducts.

    The belt trailers and end dumps are more versatile, and can haul grain but mostly hoppers.

    We have an OTR hopper niche hauling all kinds of flowables from all over to all over, boric acid is one of the more exotic ones, and sand is a big one.

    Literally anything bulk dry flow able can be moved with a hopper. I hauled fermented high moisture corn from.a Harvestore at a dairy which went into one of the buyouts, when I first started driving cmv.
     
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  9. Nov 28, 2016 #7
    slickWillie1980

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    High moisture corn means alot of shoveling if you ain't got any vibrators lol. Yeah I made the mistake of leaving a load of corn on over nite that was a lil over 17% moisture. Got to the mill and open the bottom only to have a handful come out. It was a horrible experience lol
     
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  10. Nov 28, 2016 #8
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    Dumped in a pile, meaning you could jerk it, also regular Merritt, not ag hoppers, so most of it came out. Just some broom work.

    Harvestore worked better on the drier side of wet, otherwise, you needed an aggressive unloader like used for forage. And for sure, don't grind it through a burr mill putting it in storage.
     
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  11. Nov 28, 2016 #9
    slickWillie1980

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    Ok I'm tracking a bit better. If I could find a good paying hopper gig I'd probably do that full time. Right now there is not enough work in the off season to keep everyone busy and profitable so it's a side job for me.
     
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  12. Nov 28, 2016 #10
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    Not much job availability around here, kid down the street switched from hopper to dump truck for construction.

    Have to know someone to get into it, and my farming classmate hauls limited mostly in house, with knock around equipment, and doesn't need much help, either, too much family to keep busy.

    So I do trucking related to a meat operation, live chickens on occassion, which is more fun than I want, getting a touch old for the physicaland long shags to the Twin Cities, Milwaukee, and Chicagoland pulling old reefers with newer, leased rental tractors.

    Lately going to cold storage, will bring some back from time to time, too.
     
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