Busy Saturday

rusty6 · Sep 30, 2018

Too busy for video. Got a couple pics. With my "harvest crew" we covered a lot of ground on what was really the first nice day in two weeks. Cold in the 40s but sunny and windy. We got a "new to us" 2000 bushel grain bin moved 6 miles to where it needed to be. Then got a little combining done finishing up the wheat and oats. Glad there wasn't much wheat to do because the snow had pushed it down flat to the ground in places making it hard to pick up. Have not tested the moisture yet but I know its tough. Forecast is for another week of lousy weather so I figured better get done what I can in a day.

Bruce from Can. · Sep 30, 2018

Just one of the many things I like about the west.
You can move a bin like that 6 miles. Here in
Ontario, the cops , and the MTO would be busy
writing tickets for in safe load, too wide, no permit,
unsecured load, any anything else that they could
dream up. And no matter how you went about it, or
what time of day, traffic. Lots and lots of pizzed off
people wanting to pass.
Question about your wheat. Here in Ontario, if I
had wheat in a swath , or even still standing, it
would be sprouted, and only feed grade. How will
this wheat you are harvesting grade?

lee little · Sep 30, 2018

I would love to find a bin that size close enough to move it like that ! I hope the weather straightens up soon so you can get everything harvested. I have thought a lot this past week about you and how stressful it would be for it to snow on your windrowed canola. Good luck !

showcrop · Sep 30, 2018

Rusty, seeing you adding capacity to your operation instead of slowing down is encouraging to old parts like me.

Bruce, do you not have YTDOT in your area? If not your risk is much lower.

rusty6 · Sep 30, 2018

Thanks for reminding me how lucky I am with low traffic here. About half the journey was on "super grid" road and I did meet 3 vehicles
there. Room enough for us to pass without hardly slowing down. A couple of big John Deere combines might hve posed a problem but they had the
foresight to pull into an approach of a neighbour's field. They just drove through the stubble until the next approach, about a quarter mile
and were past me by that time so back on the road.
Today I have to decide how I will spend the last nice day of the week. Try and find a belt to get the 1660 IH working or just take the JD
pull type and go. But which canola field? The one 6 miles away? There is no way in the world I can do that 80 acres in a short day before the
snow hits tonight. At least at home I can pull out of the field and park in the shed at the end of the day. Always decisions.
Wheat grade? I'm guessing a 3 by now.

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