Our host David Woodruff with our guest, Nathan Cummins.
So do you mostly use semis or you've got some straight trucks?
No, we use semis. We had a little bit of a change in our equipment program. Oh, it's been six years now going on seven, where we started. Sputnik builds a deal called a crop cart.
Yeah.
And they've got a cleaning table right in them. And so we eliminate a lot of dirt in the field and leave that dirt in the field using these crop carts. And that's helped a bunch. So we were able to just basically load, just like grain harvest, basically. It's loaded into a cart, load that into a semi, truck it out to the storage. And the dirt problem isn't nearly as bad.
Do you follow the digger with the crop cart or do you follow with a straight truck and unload it into separation, separating the dirt and rocks out?
No, the crop cart runs right beside the digger.
Okay.
And then semis pull into the field. Guys can load a semi in a matter of three and a half minutes, something like that. They can load a semi very quickly. And it handles them pretty smoothly. It's brought our bruising down. It's brought our storeability up. And so we're finding we're storing better. We're bruising less. We're handling less. But then we used to. We used to translate them right in the field because we didn't want to hold the dirt all the way back to the storage. We would clean them and everything right in the field. Well, that means you've got mobile grading equipment moving all around the countryside. And that causes a whole host of problems. Moving that stuff up and down the highway is never fun.
Nathan Cummins with our host, David Woodruff.
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