Grain Harvest, Montana
Grain Harvest, Montana
July 21, 2007.
We are staying in Dick's
RV Park in Great
Falls, Montana. It is a nice enough park with paved FHU sites
& Cable for $27. They do charge extra for wifi but we found an
open wifi signal in the park. There isn't a lot of choice in Great
Falls, it is either Dick's or KOA and we avoid KOA if at all
possible. Bottom line, we would recommend Dick's when stopping in
Great Falls.
It is late July and we are enjoying the Montana
grain harvest.
Harvester coming at us during a Montana Grain Harvest
Harvesters arrived in this area earlier in the week. The RV Park
we are in has several crews and the RV-Park in Fort
Benton had several harvesting crews.
As we are traveling to Fort
Benton we passed 3 or 4 harvesting crews hard at work.
Montana grain Harvester at work
This combine is mowing and processing a wide swath of grain as it
lumbers toward us.
Combine working the Montana grain harvest
Relentless is the way I would describe the way these combines attack
a field of grain. They are continually on the move.
This field of grain has been harvested and the only thing remaining
is these rows of straw.
We stopped for a few minutes to watch this pair of harvesters making
short work of this grain field.
A cloud of dust signals a Montana grain harvest
Men operating those harvesters keep them on the move, relentlessly
on the move. You can tell when a harvester is operating over the horizon
by the cloud of dust they create.
Two combines making short work of this Montana grain harvest
Up one side and down the other relentlessly gobbling up ripe heads
of grain in a huge swath.
Harvester unloading grain in this scene from a Montana
Grain Harvest
When the harvester is full of grain they deposit their load of grain
into awaiting trucks that deliver the harvested grain to area grain
elevators.
Emptying the harvester in this Montana Grain Harvest scene
If you look closely you can see the spiral shape of the grain as
it flows out the end of that snout.
Some of the grain will be stored in bins like these, located on the
farmer's property while other grain will be transported to large grain
elevators located in every small town along the local RR tracks.
Harvester unloading grain in a scene from the Montana Grain Harvest
And this final picture of a harvester unloading grain into a transport
vehicle. Our next stop will be the motorhome
Until next time remember how good life is.
The
Montana grain harvest was in full swing in late July this
year.
Mike & Joyce Hendrix
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