2009 Harvest Done, pictures included!

Finally finished today. Was a nice sunny breezy and DRY day which is unusual. Normally the last day of harvest is cold windy and snowing! These are pictures of the last farm. Used to be owned by one couple but when they passed the two daughters sold this quarter section and another 90 acres within a month. Now this piece is owned by 6 different people, luckily we still farm this but lost the other 90. All in all crops were good, some below normal and some well above normal. Weird year for sure!


I pushed 600 acres of corn and 500 acres of beans through this baby, the other machine ate the other 300 acres of beans.






Nice long rows here!








The drink of choice to keep ya going all night! Maybe I can get some advertising money from them!






Not sure if you can see the dust but when the corn gets dry it really makes some nasty dust... explains why the machine is so filthy


This particular machine has a high capacity/high speed clean grain system, that is why it seems to be flying everywhere


This was taken two mins after the above picture which was taken just after starting to fill the hopper.



When all is well 4 mph is a good pace. I kept the limit there as there was a lot of trash going into the machine and I wasn't trying to really push her. Have run close to 5 mph before but I am not sure how much was flying outta the back


Headed for home!

I finished today too. Put down the final 16 acres of anhydrous. Been farming all my life (56 yrs. old) here in So. central Mn. and I have never ever seen a season like this.

Very nice pictures and thanks for sharing!

Great pictures! I too use "nectar of the gods" (mountain dew) to get me through the day.

Thanx for sharing the pictures. Enjoyed them! Greg

Great pics. Thanks for sharing.

20+ yrs ago, I was visiting my dad in Gosport, Indiana. We went by to see a long time friend of his, Ed Lingle. Ed was in the field harvesting wheat. He invited me to come on board and see the combine work. I loved it.