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Post by 10inchtopsoil on Sept 22, 2021 18:11:46 GMT -6
I will challenge that Kevlar. Call it one of life's lessons, and this is something to be very careful of and you don't notice it until you step back and really pay attention. When you are trying to maximize every minute of time you are stressing yourself. This is a fact. While it is believed the time you are saving is freeing yourself up to do something better later on you are basically tossing away living in the here and now for living in the future. Maybe not the best way to say it but if people understand what I mean, then they get it.
So it is a conscious decision to recognize that when I go and chase down an option to better maximize my minutes, I am putting myself in a thought process, even lifestyle, where I must carry that thinking onto every other task.
There are a few people out there to can maximize their minutes in one area during the day and coast along in other areas to enjoy their day more so. While I try doing that, and being mindful of it, I honestly find it hard to do. The littlest things can switch me into "go hard, get it done" mode. Really trying to avoid that mode.
I wouldn't use the phrase "living in the here and now" to describe spending an extra 15 minutes each time to load/unload a super B, because you opted for a 10" auger instead of a 13". But where your way of thinking applies for any guys that are thinking "oh boy, now that I have a 13", I can farm an extra quarter of land to maximize that auger!"
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Post by kenmb on Sept 22, 2021 21:16:55 GMT -6
That's where I am in life 10inch. Been around long enough to know how I work and how I use stuff, what drives me, how I respond, how I like things to operate as a system.
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Post by jvdl on Sept 22, 2021 21:32:40 GMT -6
That's where I am in life 10inch. Been around long enough to know how I work and how I use stuff, what drives me, how I respond, how I like things to operate as a system. Not sure if your still talking about augers
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Post by kenmb on Sept 22, 2021 21:41:57 GMT -6
No, right now thinking about combines. Similar to augers in regards to always go bigger when possible. Takes a lot of discipline to spend an extra couple $100k on a machine and latest header to get through the worst possible harvest conditions, then on a year like this coast along and drive it as a class 7 and have a nice easy time of it. Me, I would be inclined to try and load it as class 10 and no doubt be giving myself grief because something is holding me back from doing the 9mph needed.
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Post by kevlar on Sept 22, 2021 21:52:00 GMT -6
I find it interesting how two people can look at the exact same thing and see it completely different, to each their own, that's what makes life interesting.
Was looking at our Westfield today and noticed that it had the wear strip on the flighting on the side pushing the grain. Maybe it does cup it a little and help it feed faster, makes me wonder if yours hasn't been installed backwards Ken, like you had mentioned.
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Post by Albertabuck on Sept 23, 2021 21:57:40 GMT -6
K, I gotta ask something here...now I haven't loaded a set of trains in several years, since I bought the Cornbinder years back to supplement the old KW I have hauled all my own. Going from a 12700kg tare truck to 7300kg had a lot to do with that update lol.
Now, when I used to load trains, as I only have a few small hopper bins, if it was convenient I would often preload my lead trailer @1200, sometimes one of the pups with 600, and always my cart another 600. Ten inch swing under the trailers, cart has its own ten inch. All the drivers ever did was bitch bitch bitch about how fast they was being loaded and how it was screwing up their pressure readings as a guidance for weights....soooooo one of you with your 13 inch loading augers want to explain WTF changed? LOL
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Post by meskie on Sept 23, 2021 22:36:17 GMT -6
Nothing changed. Sometimes the truck air can’t keep up with the load going in. You just have to be good at guessing. Haha.
When I was custom hauling I’d rather load that way then get stuck loading with a worn out POS 7” auger with a auction sticker on it and a carb that wasn’t adjusted proper. Don’t ask me how I know.
Had some malt get picked up on farm one year and they were gonna charge us if it took longer then 45 minutes to load.
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Post by victory on Sept 24, 2021 10:09:14 GMT -6
Albertabuck, if you are just loading with the 10" auger and then unload the cart, there should be smiling truckers. If you are loading the btrains with the 10" auger and the grain cart at the same time, I can see a few truckers getting excited. Then like was mentioned, the air will not keep up with how fast the grain is being loaded. The trucker needs to be on the trailer to judge what's going on.
I got caught with this once when loading from an overhead bin in my early days of trucking. An experienced trucker will know how much to put in each hopper, adjusting for bushel weight of course. I can see taking it easy for the last couple tonnes especially if the truck has to go over scales.
Loading btrains in two different spots at the same time will get most truckers pretty excited too. They want to watch each gauge separately to load the same every time. I've been at places where the farmer loads with a 16" auger. Then you have to tell the guy to close the slide on the bin about 2 or 3 tonnes shy of a load. Those augers hold a lot of grain! lol
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Post by kenmb on Sept 24, 2021 10:55:33 GMT -6
For sure Kevlar, people will have different histories, experiences, goals and just simply be wired differently.
One of the safety training sessions on a job site I sat through identified a number of things that lead to accidents. One of the big ones is attitude/mindset. And it is really interesting to be able to catch yourself while functioning in a mindset that can lead to causing more grief soon. Rushing is one of those things, or having things that allow you to rush through a job, and similarly when something is taking far too long it does effect how the next bit may play out. There is no easy answer, more exactly - each person may be triggered differently. Perhaps the biggest thing is to understand yourself.
Meridian guy was out yesterday. They will change the one hopper flight for sure. Don't know what else at this moment. As I said to the guy, I don't mind fixing first what we know is wrong and can go from there. He did say that there are different gearing packages for those hopper augers. I beleive engineering told him 3, and probably why the engineer mentioned that changing the hopper auger speed was an option. I guess if they are sending an auger to a guy in corn country they may gear it differently. Don't know the exact details, just a tidbit dropped.
Service guy also said they are waiting for 40hp vanguards to start showing up. Said they were running short on power on the big conveyors so a 40hp should be an option soon.
As for the wear edge flighting, my wheatheart is on the face like I thought. All the Meridian flighting is on the backside including the truck load auger. Just something Meridian does. I guess they must figure the ultimate issue is circumference wearing down so front or back is same difference. I just figured the face makes more sense but perhaps it creates some faster wear or something or just less effective over the long haul. Don't know.
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Post by northernfarmer on Sept 24, 2021 11:52:03 GMT -6
I looked on the Vanguard website and indeed they list a 40 hp unit, unfortunately its the same cc size engine as the 35 and EFI 37 hp. The one difference I noted that instead of an 8.2 compression ratio its 8.5 so tuned for a bit more power.
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Post by kens on Sept 25, 2021 0:16:46 GMT -6
I looked on the Vanguard website and indeed they list a 40 hp unit, unfortunately its the same cc size engine as the 35 and EFI 37 hp. The one difference I noted that instead of an 8.2 compression ratio its 8.5 so tuned for a bit more power. Does anyone know if a guy can chip these new auger engines with EFI. I have 37HP Vanguard on my Brandt U trough and 37 Kohler on my AGI U trough, and they both could use a bit more power.
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Post by northernfarmer on Sept 25, 2021 5:58:40 GMT -6
There may be one thing you can do and I don't know any of the details as to how it was done but a neighbour was talking about someone he is related to that farms and has that very 37 hp Vanguard which would be a few years old now and ironically its also on a U trough auger. My understanding is that it ran extremely hot ( surprised it never blew up ) and had a lack of power and he came up with the trick of blocking the EGR system and I don't think anything electronically was done. The claim was that it ran better, had more power etc after this fix. Now if anything else was changed I don't have that answer nor if Vanguard retuned their engines differently since that one had been built. I got the impression that it was running too lean due to the EGR system. That may give you a starting point perhaps of investigating more into the pollution garbage on those engines and see if you can get more information on such a modification.
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Post by jcalder on Sept 25, 2021 6:29:13 GMT -6
I will challenge that Kevlar. Call it one of life's lessons, and this is something to be very careful of and you don't notice it until you step back and really pay attention. When you are trying to maximize every minute of time you are stressing yourself. This is a fact. While it is believed the time you are saving is freeing yourself up to do something better later on you are basically tossing away living in the here and now for living in the future. Maybe not the best way to say it but if people understand what I mean, then they get it.
So it is a conscious decision to recognize that when I go and chase down an option to better maximize my minutes, I am putting myself in a thought process, even lifestyle, where I must carry that thinking onto every other task.
There are a few people out there to can maximize their minutes in one area during the day and coast along in other areas to enjoy their day more so. While I try doing that, and being mindful of it, I honestly find it hard to do. The littlest things can switch me into "go hard, get it done" mode. Really trying to avoid that mode.
I agree with this. We were hauling canola a couple weeks ago and the 10" had a mishap so I switched to the 8" for a couple days. Loading was less stressful, had time to move the truck, saunter over to the bin to close the gate and stuff, whereas with the 10" I'm always running. In the end regardless of which auger I was using I still hauled 3 loads in a day. The days with the 8" I got home about 20 minutes later than the days I was running with the 10" but every time I loaded with the slower auger I was more relaxed. I'm not saying don't do anything fast but the kids were still at home when I arrived at the end of the day regardless of which auger I was using, a friend told me once "don't stress about "the next step", pay attention to the current one".
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Post by radar on Sept 25, 2021 8:10:06 GMT -6
good day.. I bought one of those wireless camera s that hook to the end of the auger and can load the trailer without getting out to see into the box ,, just have to stop the auger to move to the back trailer.. saves Lot and lots of climbing in and out the truck and up the ladder..! 54$ from China delivered, hooks right to the phone only need 12volt on the auger... Range is a couple of 100 feet at least. if you want you can wonder around the bin yard just watching your phone ...It is pretty cool for a old guy to figure it out...
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Post by meskie on Sept 25, 2021 8:58:37 GMT -6
good day.. I bought one of those wireless camera s that hook to the end of the auger and can load the trailer without getting out to see into the box ,, just have to stop the auger to move to the back trailer.. saves Lot and lots of climbing in and out the truck and up the ladder..! 54$ from China delivered, hooks right to the phone only need 12volt on the auger... Range is a couple of 100 feet at least. if you want you can wonder around the bin yard just watching your phone ...It is pretty cool for a old guy to figure it out... We have those on our augers and it takes all the stress out of loading and can sit in the warm truck in the winter. It’s not always about being fast it’s about being efficient. Sometimes that extra 20 minutes might mean missing the start of your kids activities.
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