Thread: 2017 Fall Harvest

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As always Ryan, Thank You for making time for us here.

The daughter pics are way cool, so glad you get to spend some time with the kids even if you're working. They'll never forget those times.

Over here when we're loading the cranberries, most of the truck drivers don't mind when we "crown" the load. We try to not put so much in that it'll spill over the sides as they go down the road but of course pack in as much as possible. And since the fruit is pumped up to the truck ( as we water pick) if the cops want to pull the truck over to scale it, the one thing the trucks don't do is stop! They make the police tail'em to the processing plant, simply because the whole time they're driving the truck is still draining! It's actually getting lighter the longer the drive. 8-) We're pretty close to the processer so we have loads that scale at 104, 105K... The newer drivers freak out as they haven't pulled loads that big, and haven't learned that they can't stop. The brakes become marginal and they have to be careful they don't sink the truck at the field! We've actually prepared loading areas and simple roads to carry the weight because we had one sink and to get it out we dumped the load on the ground 8-(

Originally Posted by 34_40

As always Ryan, Thank You for making time for us here.

The daughter pics are way cool, so glad you get to spend some time with the kids even if you're working. They'll never forget those times.

Over here when we're loading the cranberries, most of the truck drivers don't mind when we "crown" the load. We try to not put so much in that it'll spill over the sides as they go down the road but of course pack in as much as possible. And since the fruit is pumped up to the truck ( as we water pick) if the cops want to pull the truck over to scale it, the one thing the trucks don't do is stop! They make the police tail'em to the processing plant, simply because the whole time they're driving the truck is still draining! It's actually getting lighter the longer the drive. 8-) We're pretty close to the processer so we have loads that scale at 104, 105K... The newer drivers freak out as they haven't pulled loads that big, and haven't learned that they can't stop. The brakes become marginal and they have to be careful they don't sink the truck at the field! We've actually prepared loading areas and simple roads to carry the weight because we had one sink and to get it out we dumped the load on the ground 8-(

No problem Mike. Yeah, I'm sure those 104k+ loads are very different to haul. Especially with water being involved. It's bad enough getting out of wet fields with 90=95k if you've never done it. Then with added axles, there is another learning curve. Here, I'm the trailer, this is where you're really going to go. Starting out at the bottom of big hills and turning onto big hills gets sketchy too. Especially with really dry corn. You'll exercise the pucker factor a bit.