No wonder my frickin' shoulders hurt...
I got curious 'bout something today.
Sometimes that leads to trouble.
Like now... At the horse farm, we have a New Holland 520 manure spreader.
It's a big ol' thing and I got to wondering how much it holds, weight-wise.
(This looks kinda short and thank Gawd mine doesn't have any of that white shit on it...)
Most days, on the "gets emptied today" days, it's full to the top of the sides, not just to the flared part.
Other days, it's heaped (and godalmightyDAMN, is that hard to do sometimes, heft a full bucket o'shit, wet sawdust and gicked up hay what amounts to "over yer head"... Try that a few times and see if brushing your hair ain't more effort (and pain) than it's worth...) ANYway... New Holland 520, filled every two days... how much horseshit am I totin' around here? Seems to be about 3 tons a day.
Yeah.
6000 pounds a day. Of horseshit. A day. I don't think I really needed to know that. First, I tried looking on here for the weight capcity of the thing.
Well... they ain't made 'em since 1990, so, it seem nobody knows anymore, not even New Holland North America, where I called.
Best I can find is "217 bushel capacity". Okay.
Fine. So.
How many pounds in a bushel? Pffffffffffft. Seems that that depends on what's in yer bushel.
Soy beans have one weight, corn another, oats another... it goes on but never does say what horseshit, wet sawdust and gicked up hay weighs. Salesman at my local NH dealer thinks that my loads weigh less than grain, so we went with 50 pounds per "horseshit, wet sawdust and gicked up hay bushel". Then, Mr. Salesguy comes out with, "Says here the load capacity is (something like) 170 cubic feet loaded level. If ya heap it, it goes up to 260 cubic feet, so you're doubling the capacity. Now, how many pounds or bushels there are in a cubic foot, I have no idea... You figure that out..."
And, I jump in with, "I figure that out, I want my four F's from high school algebra changed..." Jeezus. So any-friggin'-I-hate-math-way... They say it holds 217 bushels.
Gotta believe they mean loaded level. Grain bushels weigh in the vicinity of 60 pounds.
My crap allegedly weighs less.
(Still grain, just "used"...)
So, we'll go with the 50 pound bushels. 217 times 50 is 10,850 pounds.
So, call it 11 thousand, because I hate fractions even more than "regular" math, m'kay? Thanks. So, 11, 000 pounds is "full".
Which means that 5500 pounds is half, which is "a day".
Which is a mere 500 pounds less than 3 tons.
Which if ya go by what we call full is probably 500 pounds more than they mean, so we're back to a full 3 tons. Of horseshit. A day. No wonder my shoulders hurt.
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That's a lot of shit.
Posted by: Catfish at February 02, 2006 11:49 AM (PFRlu)
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