Got back a couple days ago from a 3 wk trip to my Dad's farm. Will probably head up there in a week, staying for a couple weeks to work on bldgs and help with harvesting beans/corn. Having a blast.
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| Drove this tractor, pulling the orange grain cart, shown 3 pics down, for a bit. |
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| rebuilt a concrete block wall that someone had run into with a tractor many years ago... |
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| Jacked up, then replaced, a lot of rotted support posts that hold up the roof in the red mechanical shed |
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| The orange grain cart is used to haul soybeans/corn/grain from the
field, where it's harvested by the combine, back to the farm. Then it's
transferred to a larger truck to take it to the grain elevator in town. |
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| next trip up there I'm going to work on winterizing the old farmhouse.
I'll stay there while I work. Wood stove, running water, electricity, a
basic toilet - don't need much more! |
Update: I went back up and did a lot more work. Really enjoyed myself.
About the only pictures I have of the work I did are of the new electrical service (the wires that go from a main panel up the side of the house to connect to the wires coming from the pole) and a new main electrical panel. This took the place of the old wires and fuses which seemed really fragile and frayed.
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| The old wire, with it's service cap hanging down, is on the left. The new cable is on the right. |
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| My dad did almost all of the combining. |
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| I'd drive the truck the 15 miles, back and forth, to the elevator where the grain was stored until a decision is made to sell it. |
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| The elevator had long lines as everyone was bringing in grain at the same time. I'd usually have to wait an hour or two to unload. |
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| The truck holds about 600 bushels, or roughly 30,000 lbs of either corn or soybeans. |
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| Spent a lot of time driving this old truck. It had a hard time making it up the hills when loaded. We finished at about 4am the last night. Had to get the corn off the field and into the elevator before a big snow storm hit. |
