Trucking Wheat

[rusty6]

Not your typical blue sky and sunny Saskatchewan day. Several inches of heavy wet snow last night made it a real mess this morning and I was scheduled to have my second load of wheat at the cleaning plant by 8:00. The old IH Loadstar got the job done but its going to need some time with the pressure washer after this.

Trucking April 14

 

[Muir hill 101]

Those old load stars are my favorite trucks which engine does yours have ? Very nice work. We are still under 3 feet of snow here on the flat . I did a little trucking today made a 170 mile round trip to pick up a refer van load of mustard seed and safflower seed several pallets of bags and super sacks .

 

[r.w.b.]

glad to see you use a dust mask. im hell on everybody not wearing dust masks around grain . im fighting the results of being tough when i was young n its not fun

 

[caterpillar guy]

I've tried those worthless masks in grain. I can't breathe with one on and with whiskers they do so little anyway. I'm looking mildly for a better way to do it. I can almost let the sweep auger run without me in the bin for beans. Corn I can just let it run around the bin till it makes it around then stop it sweep the side in and go another round. I let the sweep do the heavy work. I hate hauling grain in messy weather like that.

 

[Bruce from Can.]

Me too. I wear a mask now even just feeding hay in the barn or shaking out straw. I too feel the effects of dust exposure. And if you dont think a mask does any good, just look at how dirty they get, and realize all of the crap it filtered out, would have been in your lungs .

 

[Bruce from Can.]

Once again you have shown us what a large and weather diverse country Canada is. Yesterday it was the third day we had hot sunny, and 80F. I have been wearing shorts and sandals.
Do you have enough moisture this spring? Or was this snow fall a welcome addition to your soil moisture levels ?

 

[fastfarmall]

I got pneumonia s a young man, from not wearing a mask,i feel lucky i dont have any after effects, yet!!!

 

[rusty6]

(quoted from post at 01:19:31 04/15/23) Those old load stars are my favorite trucks which engine does yours have ? Very nice work. We are still under 3 feet of snow here on the flat . I did a little trucking today made a 170 mile round trip to pick up a refer van load of mustard seed and safflower seed several pallets of bags and super sacks .

Its the little 304 V8. Dependable but severely under-powered for the kind of loads I'm hauling.

 

[rusty6]

(quoted from post at 03:56:37 04/15/23)
Do you have enough moisture this spring? Or was this snow fall a welcome addition to your soil moisture levels ?

It was pretty dry in the fall and i think a lot of this moisture from the snow will soak in before filling up the sloughs.
On the dust mask subject, yes if there is much dust I usually wear a mask but on this job there was not enough to worry about. Grain dust used to bother my breathing a lot more back when I had to get in a bin and shovel but most of the time now it is cleaned up by grain vac which eliminates the dust.

 

[Muir hill 101]

I hate masks to sweat and cant breathe but sometimes you have to use them . The high quality masks are better than the cheapies