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It's a little after 11 AM EDT and Barb and I have been on duty since 3 AM. This is our second full day of getting up at 2:30 and relieving Loran and Fritz. Last Friday one of the relays in the stirring mechanism failed to reverse the motor and the assembly tried to come out the end of the dryer. Barb heard the noise of the first bar and rushed over to shut it down. The bar hit three times and broke one of the welds as well as bending the shaft the chain pulley was attached to.
I just finished (4:55 PM) my daily trip to the cannery. I leave about 11:30 and get back between 12:45 and 1:15 depending on how things go. Then it takes about an hour and a half to get it all processed and on the dryers. The load had so much crud in it that we had to pre wash it before putting in on the dryer.
The cannery has been having trouble with one of the sorters and is trying to force everything onto one and still try to keep up. As a result we are getting material that has too much stringy stuff and squash body in it. One load was so bad that it took over 24 hours to dry. Most loads are around 10 hours.
We called for a truck today to take the 19 bags of seed, that are finished, back to Oregon. There were 20 bags on the floor by 3:30 PM, and should be 21 by the time we start tomorrow morning at 3 AM.
Red Lion Man
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