Turnin a Wheel

Well here are lots of pictures from the past 3 days and a few updates of how things are going.




Time to unload after days on the road!!


Our double header trailer, that's what I drove all the way from MN.


Blurry picture of a wild boar piglet. We were driving around Sunday night checking fields when we spotted this little twerp. 1 of the farmers we cut wheat for here grows watermelons also, lots of watermelons, oh how I wish they were ripe when we were here! Anyway...last year he had 100 acres of watermelons destroyed by wild boars. That's 100 acres that were planted by hand, I can't imagine how devastating that was. But I know why he hunts and traps boars in all of his spare time!!




Getting the head attached and set




Beautiful field! Looks about ready huh? These farmers are thankful to have any crop at all this year, they have had a terrible drought in the last year. This is no bumper crop, and at least 6 inches shorter than last year, but they are thankful to have anything this year.


Hoping the wheat will go today and the machines will run smoothly.


adding oil to the gear box on the head.


1st cut of wheat for us in 2011. It was Monday early afternoon. We found some adjustments needed to be made on that combine and that the wheat was too wet. We cut samples every hour or so that afternoon and though it was drying it was still about 1 % point too high for putting in the bin.








Running another test strip




Andy making sure the branches don't hit the combine.


Cutting a sample in this field. By Tuesday around noon the moisture % was down to 13.3 or so, that was good enough for the farmer so we got rolling!




Jon & Andy collecting a sample....of wheat...we have been testing the moisture of the wheat berries a lot to make sure it isn't too wet for storing in the bins. The moisture kept dropping nicely on Tuesday afternoon to 12 - 12.5%


Jim & Jon combining. The wheat seems to be averaging around 20 bushels/acre so far.


Progress, and its lookin good.


This was a comical sight. In the pasture right next to the wheat field there was this bird standing directly behind the steer. even when the steer would move the bird would follow...the steer watching the combine, the bird watching the steer's rear end, not sure what the bird was waiting for but it was funny.


This is what I like to see! You are quite the guy Jon!