Grain Co personel

[poorboy]

How did you load truck?

Where you load the truck has big effect on dockage.

Usually loading trailers over hopper door is worst, because all the fines and cracks stay in Center of pile, right where probe goes.

If it's large items in your dockage that float to outside, then loading at front/rear of hoppers away from bottom door will cause these large items to float towards the area that gets probed and give you higher dockage on the probe.

Also where you grab your sample unloading your truck will influence the accuracy of your sample at home. You have to accurately sample outside, middle and Center of floor out of your truck. Sweeping a scoop across the flow of grain does nothing. Scoop fills mostly up in first bit of flow. Have to take the scoop and stab into flow and remove and then dump, stab in different area and pull back and dump etc.

[biglentil]

Loading on the thin aluminum slides beats em to death. Chaff floats to the outside of the pile. Can't win?

[zeefarmer]

Loading on the thin aluminum slides beats em to death. Chaff floats to the outside of the pile. Can't win?

Myth.

I've put 4000+ loads through my 7 year old 3 hopper Timpte. Always load hopper 1, then 3, which spills over into 2, until it piles. Rivets haven't even worn off yet.

Always remember Klause's statement on loading. Guys a jerk, load over the gates. Guys nice, on the slopes.

[bucket]

When I sat down to discuss the dockage....the first question was how much does it cost to get a customer.....then the second question was how much to get one back?


Then I offered some advice.....it's better to **** someone on the last load not the first one. ...

[biglentil]

Sometimes you gotta just leave with your load. Good work Bucket! Line co tried to call my load of lentils an extra 3 11% dockage so I took it down the road got #2 3%dockage.

[GDR]

No question you are likely to get different grades at different elevators maybe different dockage based on the luck of the draw with the sample. But to think some hourly employee is out to get you and downgrade your sample doesn't make much sense to me, they don't give a rats ass what you grade. Unless they remember the way you treated them the last time you were in!

[biglentil]

No question you are likely to get different grades at different elevators maybe different dockage based on the luck of the draw with the sample. But to think some hourly employee is out to get you and downgrade your sample doesn't make much sense to me, they don't give a rats ass what you grade. Unless they remember the way you treated them the last time you were in!

You just never know, especially with so much custom hauled these days they can get away with murder.

[GOODRUM]

Bucket ! Good for you for standing your ground and taking your flax back ! We need more farmers like you to make farming great again ! Keep up the good work !

# supporting my fellow farmer !

"Farming great again" This is good!

[bucket]

GDR

I start with good morning or hello and ask how's things going.


Make small talk about what's shipping just to find out if there is more opportunities to haul.

If I am driving in I always have samples in case I can sign more contracts.....I once told a marketing rep....if you keep me driving in I will keep signing contracts.


My flax incident .... even when I went to pick it up the guy wouldn't reload the truck the way I wanted ...he did it the way he wanted ....just pissed me off more.

The marketing rep was better.... by the time I was done she was trying to sell me fertilizer and I was sending her wheat samples.....I give her credit very professional.