May 11, 2011
We stopped by the farm earlier today to drop off some ear protection for Wooster and this was what was going on:
Bud's grain truck
Shoveln' corn over to the auger
(picture before his six month hair cut)
corn coming out of the silo
auger moving corn up to the truck
tractor
Wooster wants me to clarify the above picture. All the tractors that they use on the farms are new, except this one. This one is only used to move the augers around the silos. That’s Matt and Bud at the base of one of the silos. Bud drives one of the grain trucks for the farm.
The corn was getting low in this particular silo. Matt had to get in and shovel the corn to the sweeping auger. The auger sweeps around the circumference of the silo to move the corn down the pipe and out into the pan outside. The pan has two augers that move the corn up another pipe and into the truck. The auger can’t sweep the corn effectively when the silo gets to lower levels, so someone has to shovel the corn over to the auger. Wooster worked in the silo until all the corn was shoveled in the auger and the silo was empty. This amount of corn only filled up half of the grain truck.
