Chaser Bins aren't just for farmers

My farm friends will recognize this.  I didn't know this piece of equipment had a name, but it does.  It's called a "Chaser Bin".   Of course the ones I saw back on the farm in my younger days weren't nearly as fancy as all that.

Anyway, the point being that I am used to seeing these things on the farming end, on the front end of the food logistics chain if you will.  Seeing the bins in the fields getting loaded or traveling on the country roads.

Here, at least in this instance, the bin is being used to unload a freighter.  The bin is placed next to the ship.  There is a truck under the bin.

 

In the above, the ship's cargo crane is currently pointing to the right, the scoop is down in the hold.  The next shot shows the full scoop swinging over to the bin.

and the scoop is emptied into the bin which serves as the filter to load the truck.

I'm pretty sure the terms I have used to describe this work are not the correct terms, but you get the idea.
I believe the cargo is salt.   There is a big salt processor down the road - piles of salt in the yard.  On my walk to work I saw the trucks unloading at the salt processor.

Having always been on the "producing" end of the cycle (farmer in the field using chaser bin), it was interesting to watch and think about the other end of the cycle.... product arriving at destination.