Harvest 2014

[djt14]

I seen someone else post some harvest pictures, so I guess I can post mine to. Later on I'll upload my gopro videos once I get around to editing them. I really didn't take a lot of pictures this summer, after so many years on harvest you kinda run out of stuff to take pictures of A lot of the pictures are really low quality, I wasn't being a "photographer" this summer, and just took quick pics haha.

Here's 2 months from Kansas back to Montana in pictures.

First couple days in Kansas we got about 5 days of rain, and a bunch of dust storms.
Waiting to dry down. I was laying on the ground to take these pictures, that's how short the wheat was. Anything over 12" tall and you where in a bumper crop. I'm not intending to put down the farmers, they're doing very well to even have a crop, the whole area we where in is in a major drought, and hasn't had any significant moisture in 3 years. Lots of farmers had their farm wrote off this year.


Daily dust storm rolling in.


Finally rolling!

Only for another storm to roll in a few days later...

The picture doesn't do it justice of how nice of a scene this was.

Moved into Colorado with some moisture. This was about a 50-60bpa crop. It was very nice cutting.

My rig.

Turbo went out on one of our service trucks on moving day...

Picking swaths in northern Montana.

I think he's full (He was going to the bins a few miles down the road, we normally DO NOT load our trucks like this)

Why even wake up to go to the field some days...?

Racing


Dusty windshields make such nice pictures...


First barley of the year, was nice to cut something above 60bpa. This stuff was doing around 80-90 and was dryland, real nice cutting.

Doin a little truckin'.

That's my American harvest in pictures.

[nickersonau]

Those are some good pictures. Usually the off the cuff ones are the best.

[swfarms]

Great shots, especially the skin line ones, is that oil all over the service truck?

[djt14]

Yep it's oil, it aint a pretty site when a turbo goes. We had to fish the spool out of the exhaust... It pushed oil out for the next few days cleaning out the system after that.

[nickersonau]

Last year our semi looked like that. One of the hoses on the cart let go and gave it a good coating.

[djt14]

Oil's a terrible thing when misused isn't it? Lol. You can scrub and scrub and it'll still linger there.

Thanks for the compliments on the pictures also boys.

[Southern]

Very nice pics. Thanks for sharing. I know all about turbos going out. They make a big mess on the vehicle. We have a few with the mufflers under the rig. And those fill up. End up drilling a small hole to let them drain. Or they will smoke for days. Don't forget to change the air filter as well. I have found turbo pieces up in there too.