Peace River N Da House - The arrival of Garry's VY 06 Z06

Looks like you applied the German torque specs to those headers! Goodandtight! Hahahaha! That is so funny Manny. What a nice picture! I'm saving it to use as wallpaper on my computer!

Sounds like quite the ordeal Garry! That wind really has a bite to it, doesn't it? I think the next item on the equipment list should be a Velocity Yellow grader! What causes the grain to heat up? Glad to hear the grain is moving and so tomorrow (today?) you should be able to relax a bit more with it off the field. If I was local, I'd offer my services to help but I'm not so....I can offer anything then can't I?:rofl: It's easy to offer help when you can't do anything about it.:D

Sounds like the grain and the car are both coming along!
 
Good morning Riley,

Being a grain farmer is a set of real extremes. Spring and fall can be terribly busy as you are working against time. Summer is not so bad, most spraying. Always working on equipment spring, summer and fall. Winter is the biggest challenge as again you are working against time with something like loading railcars. CN gives you 48 hours to load, don't tell you when the cars are getting dropped off, sometimes drop them off in poor locations. This time we had to hire and pay out of pocket for an industrial loader to move the railcars ourselves as we couldn't load them where they'd been dropped off.

Then if for whatever reason you don't get the cars loaded in 48 hours they can charge you demurage even if they don't come to get the cars for another 5 days!

So regardless of the weather during this 48 hour window you have to get it going, wind, stuck trucks or whatever.

Then of course doing railcars in the summer is a lot more enjoyable, just hotter sometimes!

Why does grain heat? Usually due to being stored when the grain was too moist, too hot or something like a bin roof cap being left open and rain or snow getting on the top of the cone can get it to start heating. If it is caught early enough it can be dried but it likes to start heating in the middle of a bin most times and that is more difficult to keep track of. For bins you can get temperature sensors on a cable that run the length of the bin, for the bags we use a probe on the end of a rod. But it is hard to sample everywhere and so sometimes you get nailed.

Dad had a bag start to heat that tested 13.9% moisture within two months of being combined, dry is 14.5% so we're still scratching our heads on that one.

So yesterday -11 with a 40 km wind, this morning -24 with a 4 km wind. As long as the equipment all starts and we can get down the trail in the field we should get the 2nd railcar done today.

Honestly, if dad was not old school Ukrainian I'd hire the road grader to clear the trail. Dad somehow thinks saving $100 but spending two days himself with a tractor/snowblower is saving money. We view some things totally differnt. I enjoy doing certain activities like reading and I'd rather pay someone else to do work for me so I can spend my time reading. Dad is from the old school where your time is worth nothing so it is crazy to pay someone else to do something you can do yourself. I tend to look at the cost of getting someone else to do something for me and what it gives me the free time to do as a result. Paying someone $100 to grade a decent trail in a field for me or spending 14 hours and having to run my tractor to do it myself? Excluding the tractor costs I don't work for $7/hr anymore.............. Generational differences I suppose.

Now to see if I can do another interval run this morning before the grain loading begins!

Cheers,

Garry
 
The grain starts to rot which causes heat, correct? As dry stuff doesn't rot, therefore it doesn't heat, add moisture and off it goes! The outside stuff loses heat to the atmosphere through the hopper/bag walls but the middle stuff is insulated by the other heating grain with nowhere for the heat to go so it keeps getting hotter! Does that make sense or am I way off?

Funny about the generational differences. I think back in the day, the work was the fun so that is why you did everything yourself.:D Sounds like the rail companies have it good! I need to find a job with no accountability where I can apply late fees.... ....like cell phone companies... It's amazing how they can make my perfectly good $700 cell phone obsolete in 3 years.

I just realized I have nothing useful to add to this thread....which is actually pretty normal.:rofl:
 
Good morning Riley,

Sort of. It has to be of a certain temperature and moisture content to get the spoilage process to start. As well I should have also said that on top of the grain, it can be caused by the presence of green seeds, weed seeds etc. So if the moisture and temperature are sufficient then it starts to spoil and of course it becomes a self-feeding sort of process where it then spreads.

I've seen it so bad that the temperature got high enough that it discoloured the galvanized metal on grain bins!

Sometimes it turns the grain almost into concrete and you have to get inside with picks and so forth to chip it out.

And generally it ends up being worthless too.

The problem is that there is no accountablity for the rail company. They won't give you longer than 48 hours before charging demurage even if they have no intention of picking up the railcar for 5 days. We've asked for longer than 48 hours but no go.

Depending on the conspiracy theory to lean toward, it is an effort by the rail company to not have to deal with farmers filling the cars themselves. They prefer to take 50 or 100 cars to a Cargill or Viterra rather than a bunch of 2 or 3 or 4 cars to farmers.

But then our position is why should the farmer have to pay Cargill $900 to load the grain from his truck to their railcar when he can auger it into the railcar himself and pocket the $900 instead??

Sadly Riley I think your $700 phone was obsolete the moment you first turned it on! That is why I am still using a 10 or 15 year old flip phone. No camera, no internet but it makes and recieves phones which was the purpose to start with. I am not yet able to believe that anyone's life is so interesting that we need internet ability from our phones. Certainly not anyone under the age of 18 anyway. Being able to check you Facebook or sending a Tweet while walking down the street from school to home just can't be that much of an emergency!!

Showing my age eh..........

Just came in from outside. I didn't find it cold when I went to exercise but wow it sure feels cold now. Oh well, 4 1/2 more truckloads to load..........

Cheers,

Garry
 
Oooooooooooooooooooh Boooooooooooooy :rofl:

Something big this way comes :eek:
 
CCO said:
Don't tease -- what is it?:confused:
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This :
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What da heck , this was all together ready for a blower , and now look all coming apart .

What could the crew 2 Dasilva Motorsports be up to on Garry's Z06 now ?

This what Garry is going to like when I 'm through with this build - Just insert the word blower where is says turbo
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Hi guys,

Just back from getting my most loved son. Last trucks loaded before that.

Manny et al. is worse than the ice cream man from my childhood. Every time he comes by he has something new to tempt you with.

Nice to see you're having fun with guessing though. I'm sworn to secrecy myself.......

But I think it is going to be a whole lot of fun, magnitudes above what had been the original plan now.

Cheers,

Garry
 
Riley P said:
I just want to know about the rest of the drive train. Can the trans/clutch/rear end handle the added power?
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Yes , up to 750-800

The only concern is the clutch .
 
Good evening y'all,

My head is still spinning!

If anyone wants to donate a clutch I'd be open to that too...........!

I'd hate to smoke that before leaving Ontario - yikes! Old set of tires sure, but not the clutch.

Will I have manual boost control Manny so I can set it down??

Cheers,

Garry
 
VelocityYellowRules! said:
Good evening y'all,

My head is still spinning!

If anyone wants to donate a clutch I'd be open to that too...........!

I'd hate to smoke that before leaving Ontario - yikes! Old set of tires sure, but not the clutch.

Will I have manual boost control Manny so I can set it down??

Cheers,

Garry
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Your manual boost is built into your right foot :rofl:
 
Good morning Manny,

I've been thinking about that! I do hope that I will be able to control WOT in 1st and 2nd gear to start with. Especially when I am autocrossing but then again as last year it is a 1st gear affair, I'd rather go slower than shift at this point.

I need to find $ to get the clutch done now. I sure wish my house was sold. I would assume that with the engine in pieces I have some time? I know it is an unusual arrangement, usually the tranny and engine are attached but in this car the engine and tranny are separated by a driveshaft of some sort - do I understand this correctly?

Is the clutch more accessable right now?

Would the 2 disc one do or do I really need the 3 plate job?

I'll be honest that it had me up during the night actually thinking that I made the wrong call! But I did appreciate your honesty with the warning that the stock clutch will fail in the nearer future depending on how I behave. Forewarned is forearmed as they say.

Cheers,

Garry
 
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