10/02/17

What an exciting day I have had.  I have been seed dressing again, so far so good.  The first customer was easy enough six tonnes of spring barley with single purpose dressing and all went extremely well.  I like going to this customer, they are well set up I work under cover with plenty of air flowing through to take away the dust, all very good.  I enjoy working there and like the customer. Once again so far so good, but!  The but, next two tonnes of beans.  Again I like the customer the set up is good, on concrete and outside, clean and easy.  But the seed was two tonnes of beans.  The dresser will cope with beans, usually, but not today.  I changed the riddles and got everything set up then started the beans running through.  Everything seemed okay, the first fifty kilos went through okay so I climbed on the back to set the dresser and then it went wrong.  The customer came round to tell me there was a belt slipping.  By the time I got round to the controls the belts on the bag auger had burnt through.  Guess whet, no one in the area had any A42 V belts.  The customer took me round several likley suppliers but non available, the last chance was back to base.  The mill engineering genus had two A40 V belts that he thought just might do.  Oh well, best try!  To fit them I had to slacken off the adjustment, this brought the shaft of the motor into contact with a metalo plate.  That contact stopped me being able to turn the pulley and hence fit the belts.  My only option was to tighten the adjustment just enough to enable the shaft to turn but of course this made the belts harder to fit. And yes I said belts not belt, two of them to force onto the pulleys and they were an inch too short.  But I managed it and I'm still alive.  But I did swear a little, well more than a little.  i finally got the job done and with a little luck the customer didn't think the worse of me for the problem.  I re fitted the guard in the warmth of the garage back at base.  I omitted to say that all of the fitting took place outside while it was snowing and raining in turns.  I love spring seed dressing.
See you Monday for more seed dressing.  I broke my Friday rule and looked at my tickets.  What a mistake.