Short weight on load of corn, what are my options?

[Mixedupfarmer]

I remember reading an article years ago in the Farmers Weekly about a farm weighbridge, might have been on there own farm, and they said it paid for itself quite quickly as they weighed the fertiliser deliveries in.

Tempting to weigh the fertilizer deliveries in and out at a local weigh bridge this year.

 

[ridger]

I have a 4 tonne feed bin and ordered 6 tonne and told the firm to ring before so I could bucket 2 tonne out of the bottom as the blew in, no one rang and when I got back the yard just the bin was full but none anywhere else, I couldn't hold of anyone as it was Friday night. Monday morning rang up and kicked up a fuss, turn out that I was a contractor they used who had his own farm and must have been using any opportunity to feed his own stock!

Used to be a man on a blower lorry done that in these parts, he was sussed out and put on the bag lorry, but nothing said, he didn't last very long after

 

[Av Gorritt]

There was a bulker driver some years back who had a smallholding with pigs . He was spotted doing a detour by his own place , after delivering a load of pig feed . Apparently he had done it before , leaving the last half tonne or so in the box , and using it for free feed for his own pigs .

 

[thorpe]

theres one or two hauliers with some lovly cattle yards , i think its there hobby!

 

[kiwi pom]

I'm always surprised how far down the priority list a weighbridge is for many farms. It seems crazy to me that you would spend so much on inputs, growing, harvesting and storing a crop and just trust that anyone your buying or selling with, to have accurate and honest weighing.
They're bloody expensive but so is everything else. I see farms with big fancy sheds just to store machinery, top of the range Fendt's, new pick ups etc but no weighbridge.
Crazy.

 

[Nearly]

Was talking to a man who paid £7k for a small weighbridge. Installation extra and £500 a year to service and test.
Not daft.

 

[Barleycorn]

A few years ago our farming club visited the silos on Southampton docks. They were allowed 25 Kg a load discrepancy in and out on separate weighbridges so with hundreds of loads a day they made a fortune.

 

[CPF]

One of my best investments I made was a mobile weighbridge

 

[Lowland1]

There was a hauler/farmer in mid Lincolnshire whose father used to take a tonne out of the grain Shute of every lorry parked up in their yard over night

 

[Widgetone]

A few years ago our farming club visited the silos on Southampton docks. They were allowed 25 Kg a load discrepancy in and out on separate weighbridges so with hundreds of loads a day they made a fortune.

25kg doesn't sound a lot to me, and even so surely not always in 'their' favour?

 

[Barleycorn]

25kg doesn't sound a lot to me, and even so surely not always in 'their' favour?

They had an engineer checking them all the time.

 

[Lincsman]

A few years ago our farming club visited the silos on Southampton docks. They were allowed 25 Kg a load discrepancy in and out on separate weighbridges so with hundreds of loads a day they made a fortune.

Our dock has in and out bridges, and any error wont help as stuff goes in as well as out, and its not even their "stuff"

 

[Oliveau]

theres one or two hauliers with some lovly cattle yards , i think its there hobby!

Ask to see the tacho discs which may show if a lorry ‘diverted’.

 

[snarling bee]

There was a hauler/farmer in mid Lincolnshire whose father used to take a tonne out of the grain Shute of every lorry parked up in their yard over night

Commercial grain stores are a good wheeze as well. Falsify weighbridge tickets, make up admix tests and claim for moisture. It all goes on. And they get a bit annoyed if found out.

 

[Lincsman]

Ask to see the tacho discs which may show if a lorry ‘diverted’.

They dont have those anymore.