Pipe hauling

[PartTimeDweller]

A couple weeks ago we hauled some concrete pipe for a farmer friend of ours from Naperville to Rochelle. . He is going to put them in two spots in a creek for culverts, so he doesn't have to the long way around to hop from field to field. Pipes are 9' I.D., 10' O.D., 8' 6" wide, 32,000 LBS each. We took 9 of them out there, 4 trucks, 2 trips each and the farmer took the 9th one since he lives on the farm.


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That is an ethanol plant to the right, which conveniently they sell all their corn to every year. They have over 2000 acres all together.


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[Kranky 1]

Holy sh*t!

One of those pipes weighs about the same as a 963 Cat track loader.

Looks like you guys had 'em secured pretty well, don't think they could move very easy.

What did you pick them off with? Or did you just detach and roll them off by giving them a nudge with that Case track loader?

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[PartTimeDweller]

What did you pick them off with? Or did you just detach and roll them off by giving them a nudge with that Case track loader?
Gravity unload.:unibrow:
We just detached, ran the Case up against the pipe, pulled the block and took off in reverse. It actually worked quite well, when the pipe stopped we just rolled it out of the way.

Loading was a little more difficult. Since we didn't have a crane, we just rolled them on with our 950. Going straight was easy, steering the pipe to get them out in the open was a pain.

These pipes came from an old pipe plant, it closed a few years ago and my boss knows the guy who owns the property. He was glad to get rid of the pipes, for $125 a piece, and the farmer was glad to buy them and pay us to load them and haul them out. The white Mack and green Pete belong to the Farmers. The Mack is pulling our two axle.

That old Case 1150 used to belong to my boss. I had a lot of hours on that old girl back when I worked for him the first time. Not to long before I quit, he replaced it with a 955L, and sold the Case to the farmers. It only has a couple hundred more hours on it since they bought it.

[Big_Dave]

Interesting to hear how ya loaded and unloaded the pipe sections.

Kinda nice to get out of the 'big city' every so often, isn't it? ;)

[PartTimeDweller]

Interesting to hear how ya loaded and unloaded the pipe sections.

Kinda nice to get out of the 'big city' every so often, isn't it? ;)

Look up Big guy, the answer is over your head.:lmao[1]:

Yes it was a nice change to get out in the country. I used to go to rochelle all the time when I pulled reefer. Little did I know these guys farm was right across I88 from the cold storages.

This family had 800 acres in Aurora they farmed for years, until the developers came knocking with a large suit case full of $$. They sold all but the farm house and 50 acres, which is where the one brother still runs the trucking company from, and farms just enough so that he can keep his AG zoning, as not to get his trucks booted out. Rumor has it, the land in Rochelle that they bought after selling in Aurora was about a 50 to 1 ratio,