Images of the 2007 Harvest Pg 3

The last week of June the Russell crew headed west to Oakley and Colby, Kansas. This is the first day of

harvest out in Oakley. The dirt road is a field access the farmer cut through his corn field in order to get

to the wheat fields. It was here Daniel also bought the crew a round of beers after spilling wheat. It was later determined to be

a mechanical failure in a drive assembly in the grain cart and so he drove the cart into a shop at Oakley for repair along

dusty roads at 20 mph. Oh yes, the crew enjoyed the beer no matter whose fault the grain spill was.

June 30, Oakley, Kansas, this is the view from the operators bay of combine Number 6. Guess who is running it?

We, back here in Ohio, commemorated it with the stamping of a coin. At age 13 Daniel was running locomotives at

Ohio grain elevators and shoving 1,000 ton cuts of hopper cars loaded with wheat.

Somewhere near Colby, Kansas, Number 5 cuts wheat. In the background a unit train of wheat passes by

on the Union Pacific Railroad, destined for Kansas City. Just to the left of the combine is a grain elevator. Here you see the

story of the wheat, from the field to the combine, from the combine to the elevator and from the elevator to the train.

In early July the Oakley gang joined two combines and part of the other crew from Garden City, Kansas,

on the high plains of eastern Colorado. Daniel was still at the controls, learning the art of cutting wheat with a draper header.

Early on July 8, the crew left the high plains of Oakley and Colby, Kansas for central South Dakota. Two of the towns

they passed through en route were McCook, Nebraska, and North Platte, Nebraska, both railroad towns and both had

famous WW II canteens, the basis for the Webmaster's current writings and web site.

Somewhere in south western South Dakota the caravan winds across a rolling valley. The caravan is stretched to the distant horizon.

Arapahoe, Colorado as the crews prepare to head for Harrold, South Dakota. For pictures of the caravan, see page 4.

A very tired and dusty crew moves to Oakley, Kansas, for an over night stay then onto Nebraska and South Dakota.

With combines washed and ready, three are lined up to start the harvest around Harrold, South Dakota

As more crews and equipment arrive from Kansas, a fourth, then fifth and sixth combine were added.

In the parade, here is South Dakota in the grain bowl.

Transferring wheat from Number 6 to the grain cart.

One of two grain carts takes the harvest to awaiting grain trucks.

Under the wispy clouds of a Colorado sky, the full team is ready to take on the harvest.

At noon near Highmore. South Dakota, the wheat harvest is in full swing with all six combines in the fields and both grain carts

taking the harvest to awaiting trucks. There are six draper headers out front here, each 36 feet long, which means they were cutting

a width of 216 feet. A seventh combine joined the crew at Harrold.

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A three-quarter perspective of the harvest machinery in action.

Soon the crews will leave for North Dakota and Montana as the wheat harvest winds down.

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