Thursday, June 19, 2008

Wednesday June 18th - The plan was to leave at daybreak but that changed when Eric calls (at 5:30 in the morning) one of the farmers in KS and finds out it rained during the night so we stayed in Thomas. Went to the pool in the afternoon and then Eric found some wheat that was fit SO we unloaded the combines and went and cut till midnight.

Thursday June 19th - Got up early and loaded up the combines and left for KS. FINALLY. It was about a 250 mile drive to McPherson and I drove the 97 Pete with the grain cart on the 53ft trailer. Along the way there was a place were all the electric poles were blown over, there wires were laying in the fields. These were the big tall pole and some were even snapped off up 20ft.
Arrived, unloaded, and started cutting. Cut six loads till the elevators were closed at 8:00 pm. The harvest hasn’t really started here so some elevators aren’t even open yet.
Hauled on load into what is supposedly the worlds largest elevator. One row of concrete silos stretches for a good quarter mile and another set is about 2/3 that big.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

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Unknown said...

guess that didn't work.
enter "5755 S Hoover Rd, Wichita, KS"
into the address bar on live.maps website