Scouting

Jon and I set out Friday afternoon to scout out more work. It was a lot of driving. All day Saturday, Sunday, and Monday driving around N.Western Kansas and Eastern CO. We don't have much work lined up but a few leads that we hope will amount to something. The other guys worked for a guy we know in Kansas for a couple days that was short on help, we are thankful for that and all of the jobs we do have. Right now there are a LOT of crews sitting, waiting for work and out looking.


Every once in a while we see a couple old Gleaners out making rounds.


It is a nice sight.


Looking at the map
Andy and the guys moved some of the machinery a couple hours north while we were gone. They had problems with Danny's F-350 dually, it died and they couldn't figure out why or get it started again. They were at least able to pull it onto 1 of the combine trailers with the straight truck so they could take it to a shop without having to get it towed. Winston and Charlie rode in the box of the straight truck to town though, they must have thought that better than squishing 4 guys like sardines into a day cab with only 2 bucket seats.




sniff sniff, what's that funky smell?


There are lots of feedlots in Kansas.





Beefy.






He really does exist!


A natural gas pipeline company and hydrocarbon processing plant. Hydrocarbons are one of our most important energy resources, gas form we use it as a combustible fuel and solid form is asphalt. It is found naturally in crude oil.


Leaving town we saw this and were surprised there wasn't any damage to the trailer or road, he must have forgot to lock the kingpin, not good.

After we settled up with the farmers, the coop where we bought fuel, and the RV park owners we continued making our way a couple hours farther north. We decided to park our machinery and camper in central Kansas. We do not have work lined up here yet but a possible lead. This is on the way to our next job anyway. But that wheat won't be ready for a couple weeks yet depending on the weather so we stopped here in hopes of finding SOMETHING, ANYTHING - for work to fill the gap. There is this "gap" this year because Oklahoma had such drought that their wheat was ready 2 weeks ahead of normal schedule, and now we are getting up to the point of a more normal maturity date for the wheat, farther north it sounds like the wheat could actually be later than normal this year because of a cool, wet spring. So we are trying to fill the "gap".


Andy's 27th birthday was on Sunday, but we were not with him. So we celebrated on Tuesday night instead. Grilled burgers, homemade birthday cake, a cool evening, sitting around outside shooting the breeze, cocktails, and playing cribbage....a fun and relaxing time had by all!