Bloody hell. Neighbor driving by called me up to suggest there might be an issue.
Thank dog for good neighbors.
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City boy here, what am I looking at?
It’s a mill, they left it running
What is it milling?
About
stuff, and things
See general reply in post.
The thing that looks like a giant pencil tip holds grain, it drops grain onto the track (thin thing that goes up into the air beside it), which carries it up and drops it into a truck to be hauled away. If you don’t turn it off when you drive away it just keeps going, even though nothing is there to catch the grain. All the tan stuff on the ground is the grain that fell out while nothing was there to catch it.
That auger in the picture is what we use to put grain on the feed truck, but what went wrong was the auger that goes to the top of that bin from the mill just kept pumping the grain out the top when the bin was full and it fell off the top of the bin into those piles. About 4 tons or so.
Ah, that makes much more sense! I didn’t think to account for another out of sight 👍
Thanks for that, I am still confused because the grain isn’t in a pile right near the end of the track. Does the track move in a circle or something?
wind I guess, as it’s falling from a higher point it has time to fly a little beforehand
That was puzzling me too! I haven’t ever moved one myself but my understanding was it’s a bit of a pain to move the loader track, so I’m not sure how the grain ended up in that pattern. You’d think if the loader was still running it would only be in a pile at the end. But I’ve also never had to deal with a mess like this.
So there’s an auger that goes up to the top of that hopper bin in the foreground and drops the milled grain in the bin. The actual mill is off to the left and out of the picture.
Left the mill running, got distracted, the bin filled up but there’s no sensor to shut it off (yet) so it just kept pumping grain out and it all slid off the top of the bin and spilled on the ground. That was probably about 4 tons of oats on the ground.
There was a shovel party to clean it up.
Damn, what a lovely way to spend a day. Even with a handful of fellow shovelers, that’s 4 tons! That’s a shit ton of tons!
Was it windy? How did it end up behind the conveyor?
Trouble at mill.
