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4th of July -
Toke, Mark, and I started to rebuilt the number 4. This centre pivot irrigator was turned over by a tornado, the centre and the first 7 spans were laid over in a ditch!
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This is what the pivot looked like before we started. |
During......Toke Stresses out real easy |
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| The Crew working on the centre pivot | You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps! |
While re-building number 4 pivot we had number 3 and number 2 pivot running. these pivots have been going everyday since we finished planting beans.
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| This is the barge used at Pond River to pump water to the Irrigators. It is a Detroit Diesel. | This is Toke Starting pivot number 3 |
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| Jimmy moving generator in the wet. It wasn't easy! | Me shifting an old centre pivot section. |
Despite there being a Drought and all, the Irrigation crew still managed to get one of the centre pivots stuck, not once, but twice! The first time was on the 7th of August and the second time was on the 10th of August. Mitch, Phil and I went to help Toke rescue the pivot the first time. These Photos taken by Mitch and Phil.
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| Mitch and I posing for the camera | Man I am heavy! |
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| Only way to move it......drag it with a Backhoe! | Stuck Again! |
Here are some pictures of the areas under irrigation taken by Phil from an airplane.
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| Centre Pivot No.3 | Centre Pivot No.4 |
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| Fixing No.2 Centre Pivot | Moving the Backhoe! |
Phil and Mitch have been busy planting wheat at the bone yard for a photo shoot. Here's pictures of them working the ground with R &D's Ford tractors and the farms 9170 and disc. I am guessing the wheat is a back drop for when Mitch poses for playgirl or something.
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| Phil and Mitch Discing | |
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| Mitch Cultivating | |
Once the Centre pivot was rebuilt, Irrigation began with this machine, and we also started landplaning ground at pond river.
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| Boogie Landplaning | Toke getting a lil carried away with the pivot |
Finally the harvest came round, Jimmy and Toke Started harvesting corn at Stanley. The Yields were best described as poor. For More Pictures of the Corn harvest Click Here.
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| Jimmy 'getting it' in corn at Wilkerson's | Jimmy and Toke at Daviess farm |
During the corn harvest we switched to beans for a bit, then we got a 8 row front so we could run two combines in the corn. Once the corn harvesting was done, I got into planting wheat. When the rain finally did come we spent over two weeks hauling grain, shoveling both Soybeans and Corn behind sweeps. During that time we got some good rainfalls, and the yard got soft. causing one trailer left full of water to lean over.
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| We had to pick this trailer up with a crane after it just about fell over on a soft yard | I did a lot of the wheat planting this year. Here I am getting read to fill the planter at Stanley farm |
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