Learning a Lesson
It was mid October and I was running the grain cart. A grain cart is a wagon with an auger coming out of it. You fill it from the combine, and empties it into a semi. My dad was running the combine which separates the grain from the plant. My uncle was driving the semi. We fill the semi in the field, and unload it at home into a grain bin. This was the first time I ever ran the grain cart. It was the first week of combining corn. We were having a good day about thirty-five acres done so far We had an hour left until it became dark, and the corn would become a little bit wetter. If the corn is 16% moisture or more than we dry the corn to a lower percent of moisture, like 14.5%. If you bring the corn straight to the elevator they will dock you money for wet corn.
I just emptied the grain cart into the semi to fill it. The semi filled up before the grain cart was completely empty, so there was still a little bit of corn in the bottom. I …show more content…
I engaged the PTO to start unloading, but it wouldn’t turn and the tractor dogged out. I disengaged the PTO and tried again, but the same thing happened. I thought something was wrong with the tractor. Then I went to get my dad to see what the problem was. I went to my dad because he can always find out what’s wrong. To make matters worse there was a rain storm coming.
We found out that it wasn’t the tractor’s fault. The problem was the auger in the grain cart. There was corn where the bearings meet in the auger, so the shaft wouldn’t fit to turn the auger which unloaded the corn. Next we had to clean out the auger, so the PTO would be able to turn. We opened up the slide in the bottom, and had to empty about forty bushels in the field. This took half an hour to empty. My dad was mad at me at first, but he got over it. This should've been a half an hour we were combining. I learned not to fold in the auger with corn still in
It was mid October and I was running the grain cart. A grain cart is a wagon with an auger coming out of it. You fill it from the combine, and empties it into a semi. My dad was running the combine which separates the grain from the plant. My uncle was driving the semi. We fill the semi in the field, and unload it at home into a grain bin. This was the first time I ever ran the grain cart. It was the first week of combining corn. We were having a good day about thirty-five acres done so far We had an hour left until it became dark, and the corn would become a little bit wetter. If the corn is 16% moisture or more than we dry the corn to a lower percent of moisture, like 14.5%. If you bring the corn straight to the elevator they will dock you money for wet corn.
I just emptied the grain cart into the semi to fill it. The semi filled up before the grain cart was completely empty, so there was still a little bit of corn in the bottom. I …show more content…
I engaged the PTO to start unloading, but it wouldn’t turn and the tractor dogged out. I disengaged the PTO and tried again, but the same thing happened. I thought something was wrong with the tractor. Then I went to get my dad to see what the problem was. I went to my dad because he can always find out what’s wrong. To make matters worse there was a rain storm coming.
We found out that it wasn’t the tractor’s fault. The problem was the auger in the grain cart. There was corn where the bearings meet in the auger, so the shaft wouldn’t fit to turn the auger which unloaded the corn. Next we had to clean out the auger, so the PTO would be able to turn. We opened up the slide in the bottom, and had to empty about forty bushels in the field. This took half an hour to empty. My dad was mad at me at first, but he got over it. This should've been a half an hour we were combining. I learned not to fold in the auger with corn still in