13,000 Sacks of Wheat

John B. · Jan 11, 2014

This is what 13,000 sacks of wheat looked like stacked outside in 1937.

Scanned this picture from my book titled "The Horse Interlude" by Thomas B. Keith.

JML755 · Jan 11, 2014

(quoted from post at 10:48:59 01/11/14) This is what 13,000 sacks of wheat looked like stacked outside in 1937.

Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.

J.Wondergem · Jan 11, 2014

That's a huge pile. Do that in Michigan and you'd have a king size Chia Pet.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 11, 2014

How long did it take to sack that much grain?

It couldn't be done today, too many people on welfare.

BAnNC · Jan 11, 2014

EPA wouldn't let you make that much dust either.

GeneMO · Jan 11, 2014

What did they do when it rained??

Gene

LA in WI · Jan 11, 2014

This photo reminds me of an old German farmer in Iowa, in the mid-1950s, who told me "I had such a good crop I stored what I had room for outside and put the rest in the crib".
LA in WI

Leroy · Jan 11, 2014

The grain would have been sacked as it was either combined with a sacker machine or sacked off the tresher as it was being run. No later filling sacks. Sacks would have been 2 bushel in size.

fixerupper · Jan 11, 2014

Two bushels would be about 120 pounds per sack by weight measurement. That's a lot of aching muscles at the end of the day. Jim

dmiller · Jan 11, 2014

That part of WA. only gets about 14 inches a year, most of that in the winter/spring. The sacks were probably sold by then.

Wheat Farmer · Jan 11, 2014

That is neat wished there were more photos of filling, stacking, and loading. I will see if I can get a print of it. John B, could you e-mail me a copy? TKS.

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