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Barn Talk

American Trucking: The Key To Feeding The World w/Austin Knupp

Barn Talk

Tork and Sawyer Whisler

Business

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Welcome To Barn Talk! In today’s episode, we have Austin Knupp on the show to discuss the logistics of the trucking business, what it takes to haul livestock, biggest struggles of being a trucker, & much, much more. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ➱https://bit.ly/3a7r3nR SUBSCRIBE TO THIS’LL DO FARM ➱ https://bit.ly/2X8g45c SUBSCRIBE TO BARN TALK CLIPS ➱ https://bit.ly/3BlZnqq ADD US ON: INSTAGRAM ➱ https://bit.ly/3gaobdN TIKTOK ➱ https://bit.ly/3eJfftr #trucker #trucking #barntalk ------------------------------- ***PLEASE NOTE*** Barn Talk is a significant break from the typical content viewers have come to expect from This’ll Do Farm. Please be advised that we will be exploring a wide variety of topics (some adult-themed) and our younger viewers (and their parents) should be advised that some topics will be for mature audiences only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So when we load pigs, today we're loading roughly 160, 162 pigs to a trailer is where

0:09.2

we're at.

0:11.2

And it takes us, you know, just if we pre-sort everything, so it's going to take us a half an hour to load them if everything goes good.

0:19.0

And you know, you're going to load four or five pigs.

0:22.0

You're going to, the way we do it is we have the pigs

0:25.0

pre-sorted and I have somebody that is running the pigs up the alley, Sawyer's

0:29.1

getting pigs out of the pen, somebody's running up the alley bringing them to me and I'm loading

0:34.1

them and dad yells out the numbers yeah and as we go that you know most

0:38.4

guys back to the guy running up the alley and he relays it back to they want to know

0:42.2

know how many pigs I need to get out to fill the hole guy running up the alley and he relays it back to me. They want to know if...

0:42.8

I know how many pigs I need to get out to fill the hole.

0:45.0

Right, and I like loading them because I want every pig to know as it goes on the trailer

0:49.4

that I won.

0:50.6

Because it is a battle of whips.

0:52.2

Sometimes you do lose though.

0:53.0

We do get it wrong.

0:55.0

I'll tell you what.

0:56.0

I'll tell you what, I'm starting to show my age because I've been knocked down

1:01.0

twice in the last year and I loaded last winter and I actually had my legs, my short

1:10.4

little legs, I'm pretty sure if you would have seen it in slow motion my

1:14.1

little legs were above my head and it was one of those deals that when I hit the

1:18.0

ground I sat there and I thought to myself I wonder if you're going to be able to get up or not I wonder if you're going to be able to get up or not. I wonder if you broke anything.

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