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The rows are very straight; GPS?
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Herb(GA)
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On 10/11/2021 12:20 PM Bill Brueck <bill@apluscomputer.com> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">I still have trouble comprehending the magnitude of farming and the rate of harvest. I left the farm for college in 1967 and was gone for about 45 years when I started helping Linda’s brothers with the harvest. My job was to run the grain cart. Wasn’t sure how I would handle the big equipment but instincts were still intact and I knew where the load was behind me, knew how far to swing out to pull up to the semi or to catch the combine. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One thing I never got used to was estimating how much of a field was left. I would look over at the remaining rows of corn and think about doing them with a mounted 2 row picker. A couple passes with the 8 row head travelling at 5 mph and it was gone. And 8 rows is modest equipment these days.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I miss the harvest this year but one thing I don’t miss is moving between the 2 farm sites, about 13 miles apart and some of that on heavily traveled paving as we had a river to cross. Folks would pass when they shouldn’t, and making a left hand turn was especially harrowing as once in a while someone would pass just as you were turning…</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s a video of us in action, compliments of my grandson. I would have chosen different music, LOL.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfx_d8NTd0k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfx_d8NTd0k</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.</p>
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