harvest pics as promised............

photo heavy post.............be warned.............

unfortunately these clouds have since brought rain and we are currently stopped...............anywhere from 4-8 inchs of rain are forecast this week............terrible for this time of the year when everyone is harvesting...........

this is our oats...........still waiting to be harvested.............

oats..........

wheat............

grains of wheat.............

harvesting the wheat..........the kids love riding in the header............very dusty around the header...

...lucky it was driving away from me..............

when I took some food out on Friday arvo and the kids for a ride in the header I was not prepared to work.......

....don't you just love the dusty red shoes............cream linen pants............PERFECT...........NOT...........LOL.......

I had to help a little to get this bin up on the wheels and moved down the paddock closer to the header...........

this is the other bin we loaded the truck from.............

then on our way home thru town we had to go check out the silo's...............

First stop for the grain trucks is the sample stand............where they take a sample of grain from the truck and test it.............this determines which dump the load of wheat goes to............

the line up can get very long...............and take hours and hours to get to the start when it is really busy...........................

these are some of the dumps for the grains...........since I took this on Friday by Saturday afternoon the one on the right was covered full and the left one was a fair bit longer...........these are smaller ones...........

this grain dump is huge.........the trucks on this dump unload off to the left out of the picture and it is sent down the side ........the line you can see going up to the top of the pile in the middle of the photo is the auger that throws the grain onto the top of the pile and it can move along the side of the pile.............it all gets covered by huge tarps...........

These are the old silos.............they get used for smaller lines I think..............you see some trucks lined up there (over the other side of the silos)..........but not many trucks........there is a railway line between the silos and these trucks..........

... on Friday afternoon the line was quite long for the sample stand and it winds back along the road and I thought this looked great with the purple jacaranda's, trucks and silos.............

and the last photo is a gorgeous flower on a thisle............see the spikes in the top right of the photo........they are long and nasty...........

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue