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Its been a long dragged out harvest, finally got to my patch. Really wet but we knocked out about 3/4 of it tonight. Supposed to rain/snow for a week... whatever.
Anyway, cockpit view of dad's combine, 1978 John Deere 6600.
Still pretty tacky out:
First casualty, sickle driver bolts:
They drive the sickle that cuts the crop, kinda important. Easy fix though.
Can't go uphill:
Later got to a point we couldn't go across it either which is why we didn't knock it all out tonight. The back end slides out from under the combine so you end up kind of crab crawling along, it isn't really meant to work that way and it is hard on things.
First dump:
Second dump:
Now it gets good, the epic sunset that just wouldn't quit. I love a good sunset.
The last dump:
The soybeans are not looking real great, dry all year until September and then just keeps raining. They are dry so the pods shatter when the combine even gets close to them and dump beans out. Storms have blown them down in places so it is hard to get them with the combine. Stupid muddy everywhere for the combine to even get thru. And prices are craptacular to boot.
Oh well, fun to play with big boy toys on my little 7 acre patch. Knocking on wood mechanical issues have been minor, sickle driver bolts and for whatever reason my tractor isn't charging so I couldn't haul in tonight.
Anyway, cockpit view of dad's combine, 1978 John Deere 6600.
Still pretty tacky out:
First casualty, sickle driver bolts:
They drive the sickle that cuts the crop, kinda important. Easy fix though.
Can't go uphill:
Later got to a point we couldn't go across it either which is why we didn't knock it all out tonight. The back end slides out from under the combine so you end up kind of crab crawling along, it isn't really meant to work that way and it is hard on things.
First dump:
Second dump:
Now it gets good, the epic sunset that just wouldn't quit. I love a good sunset.
The last dump:
The soybeans are not looking real great, dry all year until September and then just keeps raining. They are dry so the pods shatter when the combine even gets close to them and dump beans out. Storms have blown them down in places so it is hard to get them with the combine. Stupid muddy everywhere for the combine to even get thru. And prices are craptacular to boot.
Oh well, fun to play with big boy toys on my little 7 acre patch. Knocking on wood mechanical issues have been minor, sickle driver bolts and for whatever reason my tractor isn't charging so I couldn't haul in tonight.
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