Winter Harvest Funny

Can anyone relate?


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As a kid we did something similar. Dad was trying to pick corn in deep snow. Just a one row New Idea picker pulling gravity box, but snow was too deep to pull it. So, I was using an old smooth roller, and was ahead of him trying to flatten out the snow next to the row he was picking. I honestly don't remember how long we did it, (few hours? A day or two?) as it was back in the 60's. Just remember being extremely cold, having a heck of a time pulling the roller, and he struggling to pull the picker even after I rolled it. Dad is gone, so I can't ask him. Fond memory? Maybe not.....
 
It?s mid November, it gets scary......

Especially beans. Corn ya can work some in a little snow.

Paul
 
We made a silage bag of double crop oats last week. It was harvested with a direct cut head (mower bar)on the chopper. I kept it high enough to not pick up to much snow. Worked good except where they were down bad and then had to let some or just scoop up some snow. Sure was cold. I did add an old heat houser to the 4020 to keep me a little warmer. We are holding off on corn as we need the bedding so bad. Big bales of corn stalks are bringing over $70 each and none so far were baled dry. Tom
 
Yup with things planted late, then not ripe everything is behind. Still have about 70 acres of beans to do, and 200 acres of corn. Hope it will melt off then freeze to cut beans. Corn would stand some with some loss of course.
 
Deep snow pulled picker OK. Problem was snow laying on plant, thought was working OK. But that snow filled up the husking bed. When it would not run Dad thought something broke. Took it to dealer to repair. Turned out filled with ice. In their shop they put a torpedo heater directly on picker for 48 hours to thaw it out. Did not try picking corn with snow on plant after that.
 
A couple years ago I heard of a guy who did the same thing with his combine--got it so full of snow it wouldn't work any more. Same deal--they just put it in a heated shop for a day or two till it all melted out.
 

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