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As fanners are finding it necessary
to haul forage on the public roads,
the issue of safety is becoming
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age wagons towed by tractors can
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severely limited. Entrance to, and
exit from, public roads is particu
larly hazardous due to lack of visi
bility and inadequate methods of
signaling drivers intentions to the
general traffic. Impatient drivers
often take unnecessary chances in
passing slower-moving tractors
and wagons, thus increasing the
hazards.
Many farmers are parking their
wagons and pressing their trucks
into service. They are finding that
the result is a safer operation. A
savings in labor and maintenance
often is an added benefit. In addi
tion to the truck, some other equip
ment must be changed to make
truck hauling workable. For those
who put their silage in bunkers or
trenches, the main equipment
requirement is a means of accumu
lating the load at the field chopper
and transferring that load into the
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tractor - loader pushes it back and compacts. This is the
first of three large bunkers to be filled on the Robert Lee
Martin farm in Franklin County.
truck. This is usually accom
plished with either a collector
dump box built into self-propelled
choppers or special side dump
wagons pulled behind the harves
ter. In operation, the dump wagon
is filled as a conventional wagon
would be filled. When full, the
truck pulls alongside the wagon
and the entire load is dumped into
the truck. Most operators agree
that one truck can keep a harvester
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busy if the haul is not longer than
2/4 miles and the load can be
dumped immediately for the return
trip to the field. That means
another operator at the bunker td
push the silage into place and pack
it down.
Robert Lee Martin of Franklin
County reports hauling all the for
age for 650 head of livestock using
one 10-year-old dump wagon and
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