Oh well, at least the day started good

[Robert_in_NY]

Robert: Where in Silver Creek do you find a long steep hill?

You find the long steep hills either going out of Forestville up Prospect or going out of Sheridan up Center. Remember, Silver Creek is where I live, the elevator is in Cherry Creek.

 

[AKfish]

That's a real nice spare tire you got there Robert...

You dodged a couple of bullets there. Coulda ruined the rim or jumped the rear of the truck around to give you some REAL heartburn with that loaded trailer!!

Some nagging PIA's with your combine, though.

Great news with the moisture content on your corn! Lot's of talk of high 30's back home in the Dakota's. Mold in the ears and quite a bit of the harvest will likely end up as ethanol (hopefully..).

Best of luck with the rest of your fields.

AKfish

 

[Robert_in_NY]

I have been fighting to get the wet fields done before the rain came in yesterday. I did and made it to the elevator at 5:02 Wednesday with a 4.25 ton load at 16.25 moisture. That was the very last of the corn that I am harvesting on the wet fields. The real wet spots I avoided (about an acres worth) and will just leave them stand over the winter for food for the wildlife. Every time I would get stuck it would tear the shroud off my fan and start tossing garbage in the bin. So I gave up trying to make it through any wet areas as I was tearing up the harvester. The mud even ripped open the perforated shield on the clean grain auger leaving a very nice, long trail of corn under the machine. But I was able to repair that and so far all I have had to spend on parts is $11 for a new bail for the fuel filter. I can live with that.

Now as soon as it gets done raining I am going to move to the gravel fields. I expect the moisture to be higher up there but hopefully not too bad like the guys on the other side of the hill away from the lake.

As for the spare, its still on the truck. A new set of tires will cost me $215 each so I am waiting for a check to show up before I spend that much and praying I don't lose any other tires.

 

[The Dougster]

I had a day like that on Wednesday... great temps, wonderful sunshine so I went to the ranch to get a few things done... all was well until about noon when I buried the tractor in mud... A major mess..... Had to call a tow truck that, as it turned out was driven by a kid that was barely old enough to have a drivers license... the first he did when he got there was get his tow truck stuck... We managed to get the tractor out of the mud and then spent the rest of the afternoon using the tractor to get the tow truck out of the mud... Grrrr

 

[Robert_in_NY]

I had a day like that on Wednesday... great temps, wonderful sunshine so I went to the ranch to get a few things done... all was well until about noon when I buried the tractor in mud... A major mess..... Had to call a tow truck that, as it turned out was driven by a kid that was barely old enough to have a drivers license... the first he did when he got there was get his tow truck stuck... We managed to get the tractor out of the mud and then spent the rest of the afternoon using the tractor to get the tow truck out of the mud... Grrrr

Its funny how that works some times. Mud sure is a crappy thing for equipment

 

[Steve C]

Have any of you used "tire slime"? do you recomend it? I have a friend who uses it in almost everything and claims it is great stuff and will fix almost anything.

I have no experience with it. Do you have any idea how much would be need for this application?

 

[Robert_in_NY]

I have never used it and really have no intention to. In the case with my rear truck tire the slime would not have done any good as the entire sidewall blew out.

 

[Kfbeal]

However the tire did not want to come off the hub. It took me 40 minutes to change a stupid tire all while the elevator owner is waiting just for me to get there.

One of our meter readers has a 2009 F-150 and the same thing happened. We had a crew go out to help him and they worked for 2 hours trying to get the wheel off. They finally had to floor-board it and spin it until it finally broke loose. They tried prying it with everything they had with no luck. The truck has less than 6000 miles on it.

I've always worried about breaking the lug nuts loose on a flat, but never really thought about trying to get the wheel off.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

One of our meter readers has a 2009 F-150 and the same thing happened. We had a crew go out to help him and they worked for 2 hours trying to get the wheel off. They finally had to floor-board it and spin it until it finally broke loose. They tried prying it with everything they had with no luck. The truck has less than 6000 miles on it.

I've always worried about breaking the lug nuts loose on a flat, but never really thought about trying to get the wheel off.

Yeah, I was extremely surprised how easily the lug nuts came off. Its a newer design Ford started using when they had problems with the late 90's F-150s. My truck has just over 29k miles on it and the lug nuts were what I feared. But that rim didn't want to come off the hub for anything. It took a lot of work but I did finally get it. The spare was very tight as well and I had to use the lug nuts to pull the rim onto the hub. I was a little nervous so I left the hub cap off till I got to the elevator and could inspect the tire and lug nuts to make sure everything was good. No issues so that was good.

 

[Kfbeal]

What my guy did was when he got the tire repaired, he had the shop remove the other 3 wheels to make sure he could get them off later. Might be an idea for future removals.