Its funny you mentioned that, they were expanding at this time, another huge and I mean absolutely huge barn going up, not sure what the increase in livestock was, but heard they were somewhere over 1000, headed to 2000 head. At the time there was a nice size excavator on site, as they were also construction another huge bunker, in addition to the massive bunker's they already had, its hard to imagine all the ground they plant to fill these, incredible, the size of this place.
I may have been able to get the excavator over, take a couple of swipes as you can see I did it with a grain shovel, but given the chaotic state of the place alone, feed wagon loading, all the other trucks unloading and the additional activity with the bunker and new barn, I decided I had better stay put, probably waste more time getting him over there, as well as walking around on foot at this place, you stand still too long something is going to run you over. Then there is always the chance the operator could whack the sileage body or the back door, and it don't take much to screw that up as I have seen with repairs already done to it from who knows what or just years of work. Was real cold out, I was dressed with insulated bibs, when I was younger probably would have taken an hour, so I hoofed it out, it was a goof, letting the load stay on the truck and freeze up, as it was loaded at dusk. Dumping up there in the dark, perpendicular to the ramp, is uneven ground, had to really fuss to get somewhat level, at night I can see it easier to turn one over, as you just can't see and they should have illuminated this area much better, thankfully I always had a feel for this and am a seasoned veteran on tri-axle dumps with much heavier loads, you kinda know the limits, but even though, with all that, and some hand labor included, was a lot safer, turning over that truck was not an option, so I figured it was no big deal, I did not even charge the time I had to do the hand labor, as the profit on this sawdust bedding was for crap, run used to take me an hour and a half, and if one tire blew out, profit on the load is lost and you're in the red, he stopped hauling it, just no money in it and they wanted it cheaper than what he was doing anyway, hard to get sawdust, and when you did, the truck had better be timely at the mill or its gone, was a real pain sometimes, and I hauled from the 2 largest mills around here.
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