Double Blow Out

One of the things that people hear about, but don't really think too much on is blowing out a tire.  Not that big a deal, right?  Well, what if it is a double axle?  A bit bigger deal, but still not bad, right?  Now imagine that it is a grain truck, fully of freshly cleaned wheat, grade 2, just picked up from the cleaners.  A bit bigger deal.  Well, imagine that both back tires blew with in seconds of each other and you are on a road with no real shoulder.  Well, this past year it was one of our big events.  It took us two days to clean it all up with a grain vac, shovels, grain bags, and a small grain hauler.  A lot of our equipment is older then we are.  Purchased by either our grandpa or great grandpa.  When I got there, this is what I see.

Hubby was trying to jack up the truck, but the weight was pushing the jacks into the ground.  Just sinking.  MIL was carrying the wood to put under the jacks.  When that didn't work we decided to try this.

We got the tractor and tried to hold up the truck to take some weight off so the jacks could work.  Yeah, that didn't work either.

The weight of the truck was so much that the tractor started to slide backward down the incline and it was no use.  The whole thing tipped.

All the nice clean, higher quality wheat, now lay all over the ground.  

Finally we got a semi hauler to come and lift the truck.  They hauled it home for us.  Thankfully all of this happened within about 4 miles of the house.

This photo was taken the next day.  You can see the box is bent up.  It was beyond repair as supports broke and the metal was bent in the all the weak places.

By the time the clean up process was well under way it was too dark to take more photo's.  We didn't write if off as a loss though.  We just fed a high priced wheat for feed.  At least it was only one truck load.  That was some expensive eggs and bacon, but we still got our money's worth from the grain.  Just goes to show, even a flat tire isn't just a flat tire when it has to do with a farm.