pics..... harvest still grinding along

Well, we are getting there, slowly. As of tonight we have 180 acres of corn still to harvest. The bin dryers are full and running. We have decided to start shipping wet corn to town in a effort to finish harvest. This is not something we normally do but we obviously have some concerns about the calendar.








As kruser mentioned in his earlier post it is still wet. These pictures kind of show that there are places that are very wet.


Because of the wet conditons, we are using the auger wagon alot. Hauling corn out to the road and loading in the road or hauling it to the bins and dumping it there. It is slow going but we are running and that is what matters at this point.


Just a picture of a nice fall day and the combine running.


A picture from early evening one night this week.


A look as the bin is filling, almost full.


Farming in the dark with the lights of the big city of Farmington in the background.


Picking corn on a drizzling dreary morning. We have had a few of these latley. Never used to run in these conditions, learing lots of things in 2009.


The late afternoon clouds made for a intersting picture.


Another day comes to a end. On this particular night our work didnt end for several more hours.


Of course wrigley is along every step of the way.


With the long days and all the activities we all have to take a break now and then!
I had hoped to finish harvest this week. The weather doesnt look like it will let us get done what we need to but we should get to where another break in the weather will let us get done. Been a long year and we are all ready to put this thing to bed.
bill

Bill, These photos are great for telling the story of the 2009 harvest. Going after sundown, climbing the bins, meeting the combine in mid field cause its full, these are really good. John in Ne.

You guys are doing pretty good, I would guess that dad still has 700 acres to go yet. Looks like christmas day could be spent in the combine. Oh well, lets hope it is still standing then. Good luck on finishing up.

See ya, hopefully we can run some hounds if the weather holds out.

still lots of corn in fields in Stephenson county Il and Green co. Wi.
some people are wondering if it will ever end.

Bill
it's no better here around Spfld ,some guys bought tracks to get into the bottoms neighboring farm was using 2 tractors to get a wagon to the road . but I wonder if it will ever dry out enough to work up all the ruts from this harvest ,as next spring could be interesting

How bad does your concave get plugged when running in the rain? I ran a bit early yesterday and just the dewy leaves started to wrap around the concaves and I am running round bars.

As usual, great pics but they wouldn't be complete without Wrigley!!

Thanx for the pix! Those sky pix are awesome! Greg

Just curious; explain the reason for drying corn before you ship it into town.

Enjoyed all your photos; thanks for sharing them with us.

Be sure to pat Wrigley on the head for me and tell him he"s a good dog.

As always enjoyed you pics.

Does the corn go in the large silo? If so, how do you dry it in a silo and get the stuff on the bottom to dry?

Give that dog a bone, he's worn out from riding in the tractor until long after dark.

That night time pic coming up on the auger looks like you're re-carving out the oregon trail!

I hope you've got a ripper to un-pack that ground!

great pics as always. You ever think about taking up photography? You seem to be pretty good at getting good pictures and good angles. I like the mix of red and green too.

Bill,
Thanks for the GREAT pictures - been wondering what you and Wrigley have been up to!

Mud R Done and hope we all have a better year in 2010.

Jim

As always Bill nice picks and unfortunately brings back bad memories of many years ago of the same kind of year here in SW Ohio, corn that wouldn"t dry down and rain every other day had 1500 acres to go on the first of Dec. the only good thing was it was getting cold enough for the ground to freeze to hold up the Kinze buggy and keep catching us on the go even with big floaters and a Versatile with duals catching us we had to watch the catch tractor in case he had to bail out or get stuck bigtime. The Gleaners floated on top pretty good some days we had to pull out and run to the trucks sitting on the road really lost a lot of time without the catchers and we weren"t crowding the dryer so we were staying even at that point. Hope things improve. I guess this is the 1 in ten rule let"s hope you don"t get three in a row, it"s been 25 years since we"ve seen one like yours so we"re due.

Nancy and James,

The corn is going in a grain bin, not a silo. It's a "wet bin" used for temporary storage before the corn goes into the dryer. The wet bin is used because grain is brought out of the field faster than the dryer can dry it down.

Corn is dryed on the farm to avoid dockage for exceeding 15% moisture.

Great pics. Mostly done here in So.central Michigan, but still some corn out. Deer season is over and we still got some corn standing.

The pics are great. By the time we give up tonight we'll have about 140 acres left. We might get it whipped tomorrow if the combine holds together but Thursday is a safer bet. The corn we're in now is 18% with a 57 pound test weight and it's yielding like crazy. It's a nice way to end up a long fall season.

The combine and the driver have been running almost steady since last June and both are tired and cranky. The more tired the combine gets, the crankier the driver gets. He starts in with an incoherent grumble about belts, pulleys, bearings.......Jim

Very nice pictures and thanks for sharing Bill!

Thanks for the information; you don"t know until you ask.