Message from @Der Seeteufel - SD
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It's a little bit hard to see but there's a combine dumping on another grain cart up ahead.
night raid, nice
I mean, the grain is yours, so it's not a "raid," but ya know
I like harvesting at dusk. You see a lot more wildlife. Working 16 hour days has been wearing me out though. I can't wait for December and my trip to Australia.
@Der Seeteufel - SD You work the southern hemisphere harvest? In my little OK town growing up we'd see migratory Boer hands during wheat season.
No I'm going to see my girlfriend and hunt some kangaroos. We get SAs here too. My boss is considering hiring one or two next season.
Nice!
October 10th. South Dakota.
Wow. Warm as eff here
Roll down your window and you still can't see.
We don't have a bucket lift truck but we do have a scissor lift and a pickup.
I guess OSHA doesn't come out to farms often
Nope OSHA doesn't regulate us at all.
nice
awesome
I got a shout out in the most recent FTN for sending these pictures to jazz hands. It's right at the beginning of the show.
http://fashthenation.com/2018/10/ftn-157-accelerate/
Nice
That's a really nicely done picture
Cleaning corn. Eventually we'll get this cleaner installed into the leg system but we had to rig up a temporary system.
I had to clean a dead cat out of the fan compartment of a combine today. To answer your first question yes it did go through the fan while the fan was running. Farming wasn't very fun today.
Wise men know "grain isn't vegan"
Yeah look at all these dinosaur bones I've burned.
Sunflower harvest.
Sunflowers are our most dangerous crop. They are very dry and produce a lot of dust. When we saw this smoke on the horizon we were worried one of our neighbors lost a combine. Luckily it was just someone burning tires.
Fire is such a concern that our service truck pulls double duty as a fire truck with a 600 gallon water tank.
Sunflowers are oily as well, no?
Depending on the variety some can be very oily.
Generally speaking though the dust is what starts on fire.
Who sees it?
The deer?
Dust particle fires/explosions are crazy.
I caught an episode of Modern Marvel's and they talked about this grainery explosion in the 70's. Absolutely crazy.
https://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2017/12/continental_grain_elevator_exp.html
There's a video of it somewhere.