If I was a bumper sticker kind of girl, the title of this post is what my bumper sticker would say !
Instead of making pots I've been:
Moving equipment across wintery roads
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March 23, 2011. My 16 year old daughter had a day off school and she was quickly enlisted to move
the extractor out to a field |
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I'm following behind with the 15 ton tandem grain truck |
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here the extractor is set up to a bag and auguring the grain into the truck |
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I'm standing at the end of the 10,000 bushel bag here.
There's quite a bit of snow in the fields this year so that has to be cleared away from the bag with snow plows and some human shoveling before we start . |
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dumping the grain into the storage bins in our yard |
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during harvest, out of necessity, some of the grain is bagged with a high moisture content. It must be dried before shipping or storage.
The high moisture grain goes into the wet bin on the right, augerd into the dryer (you can see the steam) the the dry grain is then augered into the holding bin on the left before being shipped or stored |
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here we are loading railroad cars for shipment. The grain is usually shipped by rail across the prairies, over the Rocky Mountains and out to ports on Canada's west coast, either at Vancouver or Prince Rupert. |
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This is a shot of my studio from my kitchen window... where I'd rather be ! |
6 comments:
Yikes. OK, no more complaining about how the winter is still holding on here on Cape Cod.
Looks cold! Nice pictures & love the new background!
Hollis, I saw on your blog how you had another inch of snow last week... I think we are all ready for winter to be done ! The next season here is Mud.
Actually,Jenna, the temperature wasn't that bad, the wind chill was the miserable factor !
Hi Colleen..so THAT is what you've been up to..quite a job getting that wonderful western grain off to market. THANK YOU to you and all farmers!..:)..Your studio looks lonely...and a cozy refuge in the snow..Isn't it something? We have four feet in our backyard!!
crazy...Here's to spring!
Cheers. Trish
4 feet, Trish ! ??
If we get a fast melt you're going to have a backyard swimming pool !
Hi...yes, well, maybe 4 feet is a bit of an stretch..hahah...maybe 2 and a half..and four off the deck..okay....in any case, there IS a lot to melt. :)...lol..winter in the west.
..hope you are back to the studio this week...cheers. Trish
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