Posted by downsouth on July 29, 2011 at 17:41:49 from (64.12.116.74):
Well it looks as if Tropical Storm Don is a dud, at least the weather goobers on TV are calling it Don the Dud. We have been getting some light rain out of it, but not much. Somehow I doubt we will get over about a half inch when it is over. Although the eye hasn't really hit the coast yet, they don't expect much to happen. They eye will hit about 30 miles north of us they say. Anyway, so they were hustling today picking up cotton modules as fast as they could. The field down the road got picked up late this afternoon during the light rain, made it a bit tough for the truck drivers as the dirt had gotten a bit slippery but they all got in and out on their own. I recall seeing some picture from someone from Austrailia of cotton bales being picked up on this site, so I thought I would share what I looks like in far South Texas. Actually it looks exactly the same as I recall the down under pictures looked. . . . . . . . . . . And I managed to get about 5 pictures in a row as this truck was loading. For those of you who don't know how these trucks work, the bed of the truck is a bunch of chains on rollers. The driver backs up to the bale, tilts the bed back, puts the truck in nuetral and engages the chain which grabs the bale and pulls the truck backward while pulling the bale up into the truck. Once it's all the way in, he tilts the bed back up and heads to the CoOp to unload. The whole process of loading a bale takes less than 60 seconds as long as he's straight in line with the bale when he starts. Pretty amazing to watch. . . . .
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