I often wonder how they manage to not run into each other when they get into tight corners like this.
I know that the combines are loaded up with GPS and cool stuff like that but I wonder how they can see where they are going when it is so dusty out and the evening sun has been strangely bright.
Just some things I wonder about. Coming soon….a photo tour of a combine!!
The combines are still working long hours. It has been four weeks since the wheat harvest started. There were a few days that were too wet.
The fields are so dusty this year. There is a lot of coughing and stuffy noses around here lately.
It is harvest time. You can smell it in the air. The smell of wheat and chaff is floating everywhere. The dust barely settles before another truck drives by. But a golden sunset like these is a guarantee every evening.
The wheat harvest is in full swing. Combines are going round and round or up and down. Grain carts are cruising around the fields to unload the combines. Trucks are busy hauling out of the fields. Yup…..it’s harvest time.
The kids had to play around on the combine that has been sitting in the yard….just to make sure it was ready to go.
Getting the combines ready for harvest:
They first get any leftovers (chaff or wheat) blown out.
Then a complete wash down. The wash takes two people about 6 hours to do. I was completely soaked from head to toe for 6 hours. My tall muck boots were dripping wet inside.
Next they get tuned up and worn parts are replaced.
Then off to the field!!
