The Kansas Wheat Harvest

Roger - Kansas · Jun 15, 2014

The K&O Steam & Gas Engine club managed to get the wheat binding done yesterday. Rained during the night, we lucked out getting it done. Wheat was about 10/12 inches tall. Not sure how the binder operator ever managed to make a bundle. Loss was high due to wheat slipping out of the bundles when they left the binder.
The young man on the U Moline is Hunter. He wanted to stop and see what was going on. His parents let him help load the bundle wagons (parenting at it best) then I put him on my U. This was his first time driving a tractor, he did really good.
The last picture is true farmer. Didn't have a small enough hitch pin to push the last bundle wagon in the shed, pliers got the job done.

Jim in Sask · Jun 15, 2014

Nice looking set of pictures. What do you figure the wheat will run in your area this year?

Back in the dirty 30's my grandfather and others mounted a box on the binders to catch the short wheat, there wasn't enough to make a bundle. 1937 was the worst, grand-dad threshed 25 bushels off a half section.

notjustair · Jun 15, 2014

We just got another .80 last night north of Ottawa. I'm not sure how any wheat will ever leave the field here. Some of it is only ankle high, though, and that is what the adjuster DIDN'T zero out. I keep hoping for a hail storm but all we get is rain. I never thought I would complain about that after the last four years! Beans aren't all in - some fields need reworked. Most of the 40 of milo I put in ended up in the road ditch 4 1/2 inches later. Still waiting on a solenoid from Deere, but I guess there's no rush. The combine doesn't have a propeller on the back. Last year was a good wheat year. This year won't take but a couple of days in the field.

Dick2 · Jun 15, 2014

Did all of that back in the days before we went to a combine. Spent a lot of time shocking those bundles as soon as I got big enough to carry them.

Didn't get to pitch bundles into the threshing machine until the last year that we thrashed; don't remember if it was 1947 or 1948.

Roger-Kansas · Jun 15, 2014

The wheat looked pretty good but the heads did not fill. Some only had a few kernels in them. Guessing 15/20 BPA. Some won't even be cut.

Went by the neighbors field on the way to the storage shed with a bundle wagon. Not sure of the model but they run 2 late model John Deere combines with 35 foot headers. They brought one semi; no grain cart, to cut the 80. I've seen this a couple of times this year. Guessing it's not worth the time to drive one any distance only to be dumped in a few times.

My parents farm can be seen in the background of the next to last picture.

R Wyler · Jun 15, 2014

Great pics and work. North central Okla here. Drought destroyed a great deal of wheat in the state though most in my area survived. My small area did not recieve much needed spring rains just a mile east of me did.

This is the thinest lowest yeild wheat I have ever cut. And the rains have come too late. Very little wheat has been cut here because of rains. This is a very bad year.

Deere Scotty · Jun 19, 2014

It was a lot of work; but good to see how things were done. I missed that era of farming. An AC 66 big bin was on the farm when I was born. Along with a NI 2 row picker.

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