A room with a view....

[furrowtickler]

We must be in the same field?

Yours bigger than mine 👍👍

[burnt]

Those fluffy swaths make me nervous until they settle. We've had stuff like that flip.

Ah-ha. AHHH-HAAHH! Squealaholic just told on himself!!

The Slum of the Ghetto DOES grow fluffy-swath crops!!!

[farmaholic]

Yup..... When there's nothing in the head our swaths are like feathers.

Trudeau wheat...nothing in the head. All fluff no substance.

[furrowtickler]

Then the ugly side , 75 % hail ....

[furrowtickler]

First picture looking east
That entire valley was wiped out 100%
Most has been bailed already

[farmaholic]

Yikes that is hailed bad.

[Partners]

When to fluffy we use the roller.

[fjlip]

Canola sized wheat swaths...unless Trudo heads, 100bu/acre!

That grew on how many inches of rain?

[burnt]

Quite a contrast in equipment since I was working out there in the summer of '78. I drove one of a flock of 20' Versatile SPs and there was 1 24' pull type at work also. When the crop was light, we slid the canvas to the center and put the crop out the end.

Then drove an 860 Massey combine for a while. And a while longer.

One of my worst moments was when I was told to cut open a 1200 acre field of barley. I protested, citing my terrible lack of ability in driving in a straight line.

He insisted. I complied.

And he found out that I wasn't kidding.

A less pleasant memory - we were swathing up on The Ridge in a terrible wind, laying them east and west. By the time we were getting finished, we were laying down mostly straw - the barley heads were trashed in the wind. And when I was going with the wind, it would trap the barley under the swather until it was a heavy enough bundle to overcome the wind and drop in huge bunches. Pity the combine driver...

Then when I came back home, my brother's 12' Owatonna seemed kinda shrimpy LOL!

About wore this hit song out on my portable 8-track player:

Ah, memories...

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Here is a picture of drowned out barley to make Farmaholic feel better.