Harvest is stuffed...........

I'll leave the bad news til last...........

I wanted to show you some pics from harvest.............since I got lots of interest in the silo pics back a few weeks ago............I have said in a few posts since that harvest has turned into a disaster for many in our district.........as I have not got a chance to get close to a header this season a friend let me use these pics of harvest she took.........

it gets pulled in the front where it gets cut off and the heads of wheat go thur and get sorted into rubbish and grain...........the rubbish gets thrown out the back of the header.........the grain goes into a box at the back of the cab behind the driver...............

sometimes the headers empty straight into a truck............the auger goes out from the header to transfer the grain across..........

But mostly the headers have someone in what is called a chaser cart.............usually a tractor and field bin with wheels running around the paddocks unloading the headers...................(see little green tractor and blue bin on the left) this will then come back to the main bigger bin in the paddock and empty into it or empty into a truck...............then off to the silos or where ever they are storing it..........

below chaser cart ----> main bin---> truck

here is a storage shed which they were using when the silos were shut................they auger the grain in thru the roof............

we have had lots of storms in the last or 2 and I love this pic................storm coming up over the paddocks.............

trying to get a bit more off before the rain...........

isn't this cool............

Now as for our harvest it is all ruined by hail.............we have lost all our crops at 2 different places.........

.....we weren't sure til yesterday about the second place and I was trying to ignore the first place that we knew about but then reality is not good.............we went out for a look and it is devastating............

all snapped off with hail...........the bottom right pic is a precious little plant that survive most of it but there is barely a plant like it in the paddock...........most are like the top right pic............all broken and hanging off or like the bottom left and on the ground and the seed laying on the ground...........absolutely nothing we can do..........like is not fair sometimes............so close to harvest but so far away...............the sad thing is we are not on our own and lots of people have hail damage to some degree..........ours just happens to be the lot.............

(click on the pic if you want to see it closer)

.........take care til next time.............
.......Chookyblue..........