Harvest Memories....

[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.

[farmaholic]

My worst swather experiences aren't as bad as some of yours. Our poorest SP swather was a cab-less IH 4000. At least it had a steering wheel...not lever steering. It actually wasnt a bad swather. That left me with one hand free to swat at bugs because the reel and table height controls were foot pedals....but oh the dust, heat, cold and bugs. We mounted an implement umbrella on it so I wasn't sitting in direct sunlight. One time I was swathing ripe yellow mustard on a cold drizzly day. ...covered myself with a canvas tarp to stay warm and dry.

Where's all the "young bucks"...on Facebook?

[makar]

Froze on cabless 4000 to, counting on the next life being better, they cut brush in hell, i hope not.

[parsley]

Tenth of September at five in the afternoon, came out of the hospital with new baby. Made 8:00 supper for thresher and his two truckers; plus neighbour swathing nearby but not on our field, because he was hungry; a Neighbour Couple; two bachelor neighbours; and the swather.
And a hungry baby.
DIdnt finish cleaning up until almost midnight. TIred! Pars

[farmaholic]

.........too many unsung heroes without recognition.

Thanks to everyone who contributed.