At the Farm! Friday

Wow.

It has been quite awhile since I have done a farm post. 

Today seems like a good day for one.  :)

The Monday after Christmas, I was getting ready to head back to my place. 
My dad and brother at one point asked if I'd be back on
Wednesday to help with cleaning out a bin.  

Well, I hadn't planned on it.  I didn't have the day off.
I was scheduled to work Tuesday and Wednesday, and then had Thursday and Friday off.  

But, due to having a comp day that I hadn't used yet, I made it happen! 
I went back to work for one day, then headed back to the farm.  :) 
{I probably spent more on gas than I made!}

 I got to join my brother delivering one of the loads to the elevator {local coop}.

I haven't ridden in his 'new' rig, so it was nice to see it...

and feel how loud it can get.  :)

 He and dad also got themselves a 'new' grain hopper.

Very nice, if I do say so myself.

 It cut the number of trips probably in half.

Living about 4 miles from the elevator, 

each round took about 1 hour.  

Loading, driving, weighing, unloading, weighing, returning.

 I really wasn't needed until the bin was mostly empty. 

At first, I was helping the corn into the pit.
But according to dad, I was doing too much work.  Oops!

Eventually he kicked me to the sweep auger to help push it along.

Sure, it has a little wheel on the end. 
But it needed pressure to keep moving in the right direction.

 On either Thursday or Friday, I had the joy of driving the

'newest' tractor to a town that is about 25 miles from the farm.

 It took about 1 hour to get there...traveling just above 20 miles per hour.

It was actually fun...until I got to town.

It does have a stop light.

And it turned yellow right when I got to it.

I didn't stop.  :)

But I made it to the fix-it shop in one piece,
without any new scratches or dents to the tractor!

Driving the tractor to town saved a few hundred dollars instead of loading it on a semi.

It gave me 1 hour to enjoy some countryside I haven't visited in years,
and some that was new to me.

{Took back roads, and avoided all gravel.  It was raining and would have been a mess.}

{I love my iPhone!  It took all these pictures.  Dad even figured out how to take a picture of me working! And yes, I did climb a bin to get a couple of the pictures.  It was a little tricky...climbing the bin, removing gloves, getting out the phone and taking pictures without dropping it, returning it to my pocket, putting gloves back on, and climbing back down.}

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