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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