Delivered this yesterday:
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Topic: Delivered this yesterday:
Posted By: Codger
Subject: Delivered this yesterday:
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2022 at 7:25am
New "Brandt" 1380 auger. This thing was 80' in length, and 13'6" at outside to outside of tires. Getting through the narrow construction zones in three places was a "hair raising" experience. All in all an uneventful drive of 207 miles so took all day.     Nobody at the destination but it was prepaid and I conversed with the party via telephone.
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Posted By: farmboy520
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2022 at 7:39am
Looks like a fun little trip.  ------------- On the farm: Agco Allis 9695, 7060, 7010, R66, Farmall H, and Farmall F20 (Great Grandpa's) |
Posted By: cwhit
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2022 at 6:52pm
| Yep, that’s another piece of equipment you could have dropped off at my place. |
Posted By: Codger
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2022 at 7:41pm
Not too far from you either. Rural Mason, IL a bit outside of town a few miles.
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cwhit wrote:Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2022 at 7:59am
| I dislike pulling augers. I always feel like if I go faster than 10mph, It's going to bounce and break in half |
Posted By: Codger
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2022 at 12:09pm
| That one pulled very well with all the guys attached. Really not objectionable at all. |
Posted By: JimIA
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2022 at 2:44pm
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I know that dealer! I got some parts from you in my past employment. Jim ------------- An open eye is much more observant than an open mouth |
Posted By: Codger
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2022 at 2:52pm
They are very nice folks. Been friends over 30 years and since I retired from full time work I haul their CDL loads. Gives me something to do and keeps me out of jail.
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Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2022 at 4:43pm
Where did you run into narrow road construction - I74/I57(federal$$)? Illinois’ state highways need lots of work, but not seeing much construction $$ happening on them. |
Posted By: Codger
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2022 at 5:16pm
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Can't be on interstate highways with this type equipment at all. All travel was on state and federal highways. Around Decatur was the worst. Once clear of there it was smooth sailing the balance of travel. Effingham was a bit of a challenge with all the "rubbernecking" going on, but once clear of there there was no further issue. According to Brandt literature that auger will move a bit over 16K bushel an hour over the 80ft. length.
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Posted By: cwhit
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2022 at 5:37pm
| AC 7060, yields here won’t be as good as last year, but will be darn close. |
Posted By: garden_guy
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2022 at 5:45pm
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Dang you must've been around my neck of the woods (Springfield) at some point. Didn't know Brandt put their name on equipment? |
Posted By: Codger
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2022 at 6:12pm
I'm actually from Springfield. Went to both SHS, and Lanphier. Started my working career at the Auburn, and Virden mines in equipment repair, but they weren't to last. This is why I'm fond of Allis-Chalmers crawlers as many of my friends from the teenage years had relation working the plant. I did a short "job apprentice" position there myself back in 1976. Brandt has a manufacturing and assembly plant just north of Normal, IL in Hudson.
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Posted By: garden_guy
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2022 at 8:34pm
Dang, that's neat. I grew up in Jacksonville and used to drive to Dickey-john in Auburn about 15 years ago to work. Used to run up to Virden to get John Deere parts. Also went by the Brandt location there in Franklin I believe. Didn't realize they actually had a plant, that's interesting. Yeah I work in Springfield now, and a few of the old timers around here (that are slowly retiring) either worked at the Allis grader plant or worked for Fiat-Allis before that all went away. I always got lots of fun comments on my A-C hats I would wear to the office haha.
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Posted By: AMB(wcIL)
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2022 at 8:44pm
| Brandt Fertilizer and Chemical in Springfield/Pleasant Plains IL doesn't have anything to do with the blue Brandt grain vac's and augers. I think the grain augers are a Candian company. With a depot warehouse near Bloomington. I used to deliver blue augers for Arends Awe John Deere at the Winchester location. Andy |
Posted By: Codger
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2022 at 8:56pm
That is true. Brandt augers and grain handling is a Canadian company. The Hudson,Il plant does some assembly, but is mostly a warehouse operation. Have several H.S. friends that worked at Dickey-John injection moulding, and electronics integration till it all went to China. I left Spfld at the end of 1984 as couldn't find steady employment, and going into the Navy. Upon discharge I hired on with the federal govt. and trained at Capital Airport for almost a year before transferring up near Peoria to a radar site tracking aircraft. Still get down there every now and then to visit. When I left the crawler plant was a shell of it's former self and was gone when I returned. Now, nothing remains. |
Posted By: garden_guy
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2022 at 9:26pm
Oh dang, I remember back in the days when Arends Awe was Gordon Implement... And now it's another Sloan's dealer. I just bought some parts there for my chainsaw and lawn mower a few weeks ago. I didn't realize those were two separate companies. Interesting with the weird name spelling.
Oh dang, I bet we know some of the same people (a lot of the people who had been there in the 70s and 80s were still there when I came in circa 2007). Yeah, it's sad to see how DJ became a shell of its former self. I think it is owned by the same parent company that owns some really interesting other stuff, like Worthington Ag Parts? Kind of crazy here in Springfield how the old Allis Chalmers area is just... completely changed.
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