My rant for the year

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   Let's start from the beginning. I bought a used anhydrous applicator this spring to put down anhydrous on all of my corn acres. The anhydrous regulator (or more correctly put the nitrolator) on it was shot, so I put a Dickey John auto rater onto it that I had bought a few years back. Now I didn't 100% expect this Dickey John to work flawlessly, because I bought it used, and then it sat in my Quonset since I bought it. It lived up to my expectations and didn't work right. Now with me having a job now, my son is trying to remedy the situation. He had determined that he wasn't getting a good speed reading from the radar gun. Should be an easy solution, because the tractor has a caseIH/Trimble easy steer on it, and they make a cable that will give the Dickey John a speed reading from that, and you don't even need the radar gun. So Wyatt called local Case IH dealer, and wasn't a soul in the whole organization that had a clue what he was talking about, so they finally gave him the old "We'll call you back tomorrow" slip. Obviously they didn't call back. So he found the sensor 1 company out of Grand Island, NE. They knew what he was talking about and had exactly what he needed. This was last Thursday. I told him to see what shipping would cost to get it the next day. They quoted him 100 bucks just in shipping to have it next day, but said that with regular shipping it would be here by Monday, or at the very latest, Tuesday. UPS FINALLY DROPPED THE SOB OFF YESTERDAY!!!!!!!! One freakin week to ship a two pound package that is about four inches tall, and about 6 inches by six inches. WTF.....? Did they take it over to the river and put it on a steamboat to get it to Bismarck and then pony express it from there to me...? I could have walked to Grand Island and picked it up and had it here faster. And it was still over twenty bucks shipping charges on it. That's ridiculous. I shipped my XT injection pump and injectors back and forth to Ed by the good old US mail for a little over 40 bucks each way, they made it in 4 days, and was one hell of a lot BIGGER package! I know that this cable would have fit in a USPS flat rate box that would have cost under five bucks to ship, and it would probably have been here by Saturday. Then what really frosted my ass, was when I heard the office girl at work telling about how she needed a toner for the printer, and the company she got it from shipped it next day air for FREE!!!! I don't know if UPS has gotten out of line, or if this Sensor 1 company has their own "handling" fee that is out of line, but somebody dropped the ball bad here, and it has obviously upset me (could you tell?). And then, it rained yesterday, which in this country, is always a good thing, but the applicator was sitting for all of the nice days, and then when the cable showed up, we can't even use it then. If I had known it was going to take a week for this cable to show up, I would have just pulled the nitrolator off my Concord last Thursday already, put it on the applicator, and we'd be done putting down anhydrous by now. But when you keep thinking "we'll be getting this part tomorrow", well, you don't take drastic measures. Tomorrow can kiss my ass!  GRRRRRRRRRRR! Darrel

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