Cashing In On Indian Summer Or At Least Trying To

There was a lot of Combine activity across US Rt 20 from me today. A neighbor, cash crop farmer and custom operator, harvesting soybeans. One of my uncles trying to harvest corn, but not having a good day in spite of the spectacular weather. Not a cloud in the sky for the last two days, temp about 60F. He and his brother, both in their 70s just keep going. One has been having problem with his knee, today the doctor hospitalized him and wants to operate. The other one has been dealing with postate canser, and all the inconveniences in every day life that it causes. He Stopped at buy by house on his way to the field with the combine and asked me to come down and pick him up about 4:30 so he could get back and feed the 125 head of young stock that they board. Seeing how nice a day it was I got out my sons Case 770 and headed down to get him and a couple of Kill Bros wagons full of corn. The corn field is down over what we call the ledges on their lower farm. Well, I guess Murphey was along for the ride! First a gathering chain broke on the header, and when he was coming up over the ledges the rear wheel cought an outcrop and snapped the tierod on the rear axle. I will go down tomarrow and weld it together.
The neighbor, cashcropper was also harvesting soybeans one field over, and down over the same ledges. Sorry for the poor quality of pics. of them, but the field was already shaded from the sun. Anyway, looks like they had a pretty good day, all though there were spots that they did not attempt,(Mud}

beautiful country up there, i always loved going upstate new york. hope everything turns out alright for those guys, i hope i never get old should i mention im 19? well i guess i just did.

enjoy the last couple weeks of soemwhat warm weather

kevin

All interesting pictures but the 7th one down has a machine back in the shadows I recognize as an ensilage cutter from the old days.I remember from when I was very young the neighbors and dad all getting together at each others places and hauling in the cut corn and feeding it into one of these machines to fill the silos.Lots of activity around this time of year.

I knew someone would see that in the pic. I didn't even notice it until I was posting. I'll check it out tomarrow morning when I weld the tierod.

Absolutely- Dug out the sprayer from the back of the barn to winterize it and it was so nice out (finally) I spot sprayed some roundup around. Spent the better part of today fixing a blow out in a drain tile. Don't think it's ever going to dry enough to plow until we get some serious freezing.

I'm doing a 50x50 patio, got 20 pallets of wall stone and pavers to put down. Only 2 done so far, hope this weather holds up, or at least stays relatively dry.