Re: Tuesday

Posted by Texasmark1 on November 14, 2018 at 05:47:15 from (172.242.9.56):

In Reply to: Re: Tuesday posted by used red mn on November 13, 2018 at 21:57:51:

It consists of a power source (clutched electric motor), a cable, and a board with handles of approximately 4'x4' and fairly heavy requiring you to drag it.

The power source source starts out with the cable retracted. The operator pulls on the cable as far as desired within a certain time line whereby the clutch engages the motor and it starts retracting the cable. When the boxcar is nearly empty, it's no big deal to get the board into position before the cable starts pulling. When wheat is within 4' of the top of the boxcar it is a real chore to climb up (through) the wheat dragging the board and make it in time for the clutch to engage. I have no idea as to the official name for the device. I just called it a shovel as that's what it does.

The boxcar sits on a siding and you use a "hickeydo" that fits between the rail and the wheel to work the car to the unloading chute (works like an old GI can opener), one guy on the hickeydo and another on the brakes. The car comes in with cardboard and 2x4s across the door openings. At the place of origin, the wheat was blown into the car until some metric was reached. At the elevator, there is a pit adjacent to the railroad tracks, similar to the pit where trucks are unloaded.

The unloading person(s), open the door, remove(s) the blockage and an initial amount of wheat falls into/through the grate to a conveyor below it and the conveyor takes it to the silo. When gravity has done it's job, the unloaders, usually 2 at a time, work the car, with the shovels and finish the unloading. I may recall a scoop was used also (like you probably use at your farm to hand move grain) to clean out the last little bit of grain.

Doors are left open, the hickeydo moves the car down the siding and the next one is jacked into position.

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