Harvest Memories....

[GDR]

Younger than lots of you guys but grew up behind the times I guess since I've been there for most of those things other than the cabless combines that must have been nasty.

I often remember the year we combined in a chinook on boxing day with ih 315, grain so tough the unloader wouldn't work full so we drove truck beside the combine for the whole field.

Also used wood shingles to shim the tailgate spout where you needed it.

[farmaholic]

Lol... sharp turn, 850 MF chopper rail meets chevy half ton....nicknamed the gash! Was there when it happened, dad did it. Just took my sons hand and walked away....no combine damage or anyone hurt.

[farmaholic]

What are the young farmers of today going to reminesce about....having to actually physically drive the machinery themselves? I think technology cor autonomously pulled grain carts exists

[samhill]

One other thing

You guys all forgot to mention,
Unloading on the go to 127 ihc or 92 or whatever, nursing that gas pedal, and the box getting fuller and fuller, and oh crap!

[rockpile]

Yeah, the heat, dust and mosquitos bring back memories. But on the pleasant side - shutting down late at night and see all the stars and the Milky Way from horizon to horizon. Also, the harvest moon coming up in mid to late October. Also having to shut down one afternoon when a cold front blew in. So strong you couldn't fill the hopper nor dump into the truck. Went home about 3 and drank beer!

[sumdumguy]

You guys all forgot to mention,
Unloading on the go to 127 ihc or 92 or whatever, nursing that gas pedal, and the box getting fuller and fuller, and oh crap!

Unloading on the go when the truck driver is eleven years old and can't see over the truck steering wheel, not to mention the fact that the gas was being pushed by one big toe. i was driving tractor for chucking bales when I was 7, and they still yelled at me when I drove over a bale or two. Drove that Allis Chalmers WD45 right into the hay stack. Bet you younguns never heard of an AC, not an air conditioner!

[835 versatile]

Harvest memories

I remember those old square wooden bin with auger hole on front of bins and shovelling grain to the back..choking dust and also cabless combines and flying red ants following you around but you still wouldn't give up the chance to drive a combine and at dusk flocks of ducks coming in or flying by...

[835 versatile]

Harvest memories

Should also add chaff and dust following you down the field until you turned sideways and then into wind and then back down......

[LEP]

I hated square bins. Dad wasn't happy unless the corners were shoveled to the roof. We had 3 5542s when I started trucking so I was pretty steady.

We never farmed all that much, but Dad wanted to push hard. Always went all night on the last day. I remember after a gruelling harvest with lots of late nights, Dad decided we were going until we finished. It was a heavy crop and I was scrambling to keep up. Well one time about 3:30 Or 4 at night I was falling behind because I could barely stay awake. Dad said did you have trouble? What took you so long? I said I got behind a horse and buggy and couldn't get past.
I was seeing things. We shut it down for the night.

Be careful out there.

[835 versatile]

Harvest memories

Lol.. combing late at night and falling asleep only to be awaken by roaring combine beside you

[makar]

I have a story for you, back when my two buddies were combineing 70 bu wheat with a 660 case they drank a beer a hopper, went well till the combine guy passed out, the door was open and when he hit the ground he woke up and climbed back in and carried on.

[makar]

And we wonder for years why cabs were offset to the left.