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Rolla, ND | I would guess the farmer learned his treatment of scales in a science lab. If you have a precision scale and you don't turn it off between used and say you move it you can damage it so it's not near as accurate. A bar would lift the weight off the precision knife it was balanced on.
However grain carts aren't set up that way. Different type of weighing device. Turning the scale off doesn't change anything. It doesn't protect the scale, load cells are designed to bottom without damage. If you did damage them, it wouldn't matter that there wasn't a reading being taken at the time. So if you drive off a bridge and damage the load cell don't beat yourself up that the scale was running unless you were looking at it while texting and reading the newspaper and so you had an accident.
So anyway the farmer extrapolated what he was taught from one type of weighing device to another.
If grain cart scales were damaged by having them on when moving none of them would work.
The nice way to inform the guy would be to call the manufacturer of his grain cart, talk to them about it and have them call him and tell him that it doesn't hurt them to leave them on while moving. If it would hurt them you better tell me. | |
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Farmers can be so stupid.
