Bean Harvest 2015

Bean harvest is mostly done. There is the replants left that were too wet to cut when we were there. Just a few acres left! 

Lots to celebrate this week! We have are done with harvest, mostly anyway. My Forever and I have made it 2 years! Two years!!! 

So what did we do on our anniversary? Well, we picked beans of course. I knew how romantic our anniversary would be when I wanted to get married in the middle of harvest. I got to ride with him for all of two minutes. Enough to get our anniversary photo and move on. At least he's kind of smiling :) 

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I got to be a trucker with bean harvest! YEAH!! The elevator keeps everything moving so quickly that it's hard to get photos. I got a few, well one to be specific. This photo shows waiting to dump the grain. The first thing when getting to the elevator is to untarp the truck. Some trucks have automatic tarp unrollers! Can you believe it? Drivers can sit in the truck and unroll the tarp! I can remember growing up when we didn't even have roll over tarps, we had roll up tarps as Dad is fond of saying. They had to crawl up on top of the truck and pull it off and fold it up. The trucks we have now are roll over tarps. There's a bar at the back of the truck that you roll the tarp to the other side of the truck. All standing on the ground. 

After you get the tarp unrolled, they probe the trucks and you send your card to the office. The card has all the information they need on it. Who's grain it is, what the shares of the grain are, what they are to do with the grain (sell, store, on a contract, etc), who the trucker is and what commodity is on the truck. When they probe the truck the official, licensed grain inspector, inspects the grain. They weigh it and check for dockage and splits and all sorts of stuff. 

Next comes weighing the loaded truck. I always thought it was unfair that they got to probe the truck and pull some grain out before they weigh the truck. It's not a lot of grain they use, but still! Anyway, after weighing, the printer prints out the card with a bar code that tells you which dump to go to. 

That's where the photo comes in. Normally, there isn't a line to dump. For some reason something slowed down progress and there was a line which enabled me to get a picture! 

After dumping the grain there is another scale. With the card that you got the first time of weighing that has the bar code on it. You insert it, the machine reads the bar code and prints off your receipt. Then you head back to the field and hope the combine isn't waiting on the truck. Again, the goal is to never have the combine stopped! 

That's about all the time I have. Just a few more quick photos of dumping grain at night and a sunset. I love both of these. I love the lights on the combine and truck and grain cart, it's such a beautiful sight. And who can resist a Kansas sunset!

Have a great week! Enjoy everyday-you only get one chance to make each day the greatest that it can be!