Posted by Bob in Australia on May 27, 2017 at 19:01:30 from (220.239.120.226):
In Reply to: Re: Just Thinking posted by rrlund on May 27, 2017 at 17:07:00:
Grain used to be transported from the farm here in 3 bushel bags. Good wheat would weigh 66 pounds per bushel, so bags would weigh close to 200 pounds. They were loaded onto flat bed trucks for transport the local silo (elevator). A really useful tool was a hydraulic bag loader that lifted bags from the ground to shoulder height on the truck. The person loading the truck would take the bags from the loader onto the shoulder and carry them around the truck tray to stack them (tough job). If there was no bag loader on the truck, the bags had to be lifted onto the tray (much tougher job)
The bags were stacked at the local silo (elevator) in huge stacks until carted by rail to shipping terminals.
All this changed in the late 1950s when bulk handing was introduced to our grain transport system. Now I just sit in the tractor and press buttons to load grain into trucks. Back then flat bed trucks took about 10 tons of grain. Now our road trains take 52 tons.
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