[AT] Left or right combines?

[Herbert Metz]

The elevators operating rules (grass seed in pallet boxes only) may have 
been because of facility limitations; some elevators had considerable down 
time when converting from one grain to another.   And this situation was 
repeated most every time they handled this different grain.    Plus handling 
more than one kind of grain automatically set them up for possibility of 
operator error.  And once everyone was set up to handle the pallet boxes, 
there was little reason to change,unless quantities mushroomed or a nearby 
elevator implemented necessary changes.
Herb


> Incidentally, the primary crop on this farm in Oregon I referred to was
> Marion Bluegrass seed.  The farmer had three combines (two self propelled
> Massey's and the IH) and four or five grain trucks going in the grass seed
> harvest.  The grass seed was not bagged but when we emptied the combine
> holding tanks we had to dump into pullet boxes on the trucks.  The boxes, 
> as
> I recall, were something like four-foot square and three and a half to 
> four
> foot high.  Again, I can't answer the question why the Elevator would only
> handle grass seed in this fashion.
> Dudley Rupert
> Snohomish, Washington