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If you could spend one day with a harvest crew, what job would you request?
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Like to drive a combine – Seen so many of them over the years cutting wheat across Kansas that you wonder how hard they are to drive and how often you have to adjust the header
I also would like driving a combine some. There is a slim possabilty that I will drive my farmer friend’s 9500 JD shelling Corn this fall. His hired hand hurt his back this spring and his other part time help may not be available on a few days. My left eye is bad and I can not run the big truck on the road. This will also give me a slight problem with dumping. My farm work in high school and college days was mostly tillage.
Drive a combine.
Run Combine!!
I have driven grain trucks, grain carts and combines, but I would prefer to operate a combine.
Combine driver. Would love to operate one of the new machines in a large Kansas field.
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Having worked a harvest crew for several years I’ve done all the jobs. My favorite of course is running the combine which was my main job on the crew. And to David’s question about the header, it’s constant adjustments. In most fields the ground changes so you’re constantly changing with it. One hand stays on the control and you never stop adjusting it. In the same way, your head is like a robot..side to side to side to side. It’s a workout for the neck. If your head isn’t moving, you aren’t doing your job. Most places aren’t flat enough to just watch one end of the header.
The actual job doesn’t matter – teamwork is the most important factor on a harvest crew. The teamwork skilly you learn on a harvest crew will benefit you for the rest of your life!
I would like to drive the combine with the draper heads.
Might be able to compare to the old 15 footer heads I use to run.
I’d love to follow them and then tell their story!! I majored in JMC in college and that’s still my greatest love even though I’m no longer in the profession.Yah, it would be great to drive the combine, truck or grain cart, but to sit along side the individuals who do that and record their thought, hopes, dreams – that would be the greatest gift!
Any job that requires operating a large machine. I’ve actually thought about volunteering to help a harvest crew for free!!
Run a grain cart, a job I haven’t done yet.
The logical answer would be combine operator. That is what I do! The easier answer would be “boss”, but who wants the headaches? The next answer would be cook and chief organizer, but again, too many headaches. Truck driving has too many rules, grain cart operator is too stressful. I guess family dog on the crew… that would be my ambition!!
Reading the different crew reports brings back powerful memories of earlier days when the largest truck was a three-ton dually with 44 inch high grain box, hauling directly from the old Gleaners and IH combines with 20-foot headers.
What I would give for a chance to operate one of these modern rigs with the 40-foot header, GPS, auto-pilot, (Moisture/Weight and actual production per square yard of field on the recorder).
We used to dream of air conditioning in the trucks. Forget the combines. Never dreamed of a grain cart or a semi reefer converted to a luxury mobile home. The lucky ones got to sleep under combines, junior crew members slept under the trucks.
Being a Illinois farmer with a cdl and having experance driving combine,auger carts and semi.Driveing a combine in a wheat field would top the list and being part of the daily experance.
Drive the combin or the semis
I have a lot of memories of riding up front in the grain truck with my uncle and my Dad. That’s when we got to go to town, get a pepsi, and maybe some candy. We always stopped to visit with the folks in town. There were a lot of stories told on those trips, a lot of tall tales, and mostly a lot of memories made.
“All Aboard Wheat Harvest” gives me a chance to relive those memories through your stories. Thank you.
I’d drive the truck. And I would bring my 17 year old son along so he could feel the weight of the grain as it filled the back. And he would listen to the engine groan under the heft of the load as we tried to accelerate. And how the truck would squeak and click and pop as we downshifted and then braked long before we needed to stop. And I would tell him stories about his grandfather, and great uncles, and what “Harvest” really means. And we would stand in town – any town – and talk with strangers who are as close as friends and tell stories, and tall tales, and make a few new memories.
Thank you -
Combine operator. I have never driven an auto steer.
I have never operated a grain cart so that should be my answer but I love to run combine and watch the grain flow into the tank.
any job would be fine with me,its not want you are doing or who you are working with. if a person likes a job they put 100% into that work and listen to what someone has to say to keep you and others safe while getting the job done. and enjoy the country while doing work that feeds the world
Would like to run a new combine, but driving truck was my favorite job when I went harvesting.
run a grain cart
Na colheita de trigo em Great Falls ,Montana,no ano de 1972,colhi muito trigo com as antigas colhedeiras I H.Gostaria muito de voltar para a colheita de trigo em Montana e colher com as novas colheitadeiras que são verdadeiras maravilhas da tecnologia moderna.Para quem ama a agricultura,este programa .é um bela maneira de conhecer o trabalho de quem colhe o grão abençoado por DEUS.Trigo,o pão nosso de cada dia.
Ricardo, do Brasil.
It doesn’t really matter to me combine, grain cart, anything
The best job would be running the Combine but bringing out supper and shutting down for a 20 minute meal is usually the best job of the day.Everybody loves to see the food wagon come.
I would prefer to “JUST” watch all the action in the field for a change of pace….
I would want to drive a combine. I have my own small custom harvesting business and like to get my hands on as many different combines as possible!
I would like to run one of the new JD s670 combines that would be the best job out there!
Drive a red combine
Running a combine,green,red or yellow.Awsome!
i enjoyed reading about all the diffrent places they were at i have had two combines and did alot of local harvesting over the years. also have been in some areas in ks ok and co.with a semi hauling flour,fireplaces,and ag products, ect. in the off time of year. i also do alot of hauling of grain, and helping out with my own truck. and if needed running a combine,ect i know the hard work doing all the things that need to be done. i wish i had the time to spend some time helping out on a crew.