Darn you, JD. Now you've given me the 'itch'. Thank you for the video. It's nice to see a video of a small family crew that doesn't need brand new machines to make a living. Well, maybe one brand new machine, if it even belongs to them. It's much more relaxed than a commercial crew running 12 combines and two carts and 10 trucks. There is nothing new about a new combine when it comes down to the basic way it does the job.
I think it was the last time I was on the harvest we were just south of Ogallalla Ne. cutting. I was in the service truck and one of the truckers told me there was a farmer a couple miles south cutting with this old antique John Deere. Rain clouds were coming in from the west and I really should have stayed by the field but I couldn't help myself and took off going south to see this antique combine. Sure enough there was a 95 cutting by the road. I had about one minute to watch it and the rain hit so the fun was over. I would have hitched a ride with the guy and said to heck with my responsibilities for awhile but the rain washed my hopes away. The young guys on the crew were always looking at me like there was something wrong with me when I was drooling over an old Massey super 92 or Deere 55 running somewhere. 'Why do you like that old junk'. LOL
When we were in the Oklahoma panhandle there were a couple of Deere 105's running in a field we drove by regularly. One was a gas and the other was a propane. That propane tank looked strange back there for sure. A couple of kids were running them and the story was grandpa bought these two combines to give his grandsons a summer job harvesting his wheat. They were dumping into a neat shiny old 50 year old truck with an "Oakie" box on it. I was almost hoping one of them would break down so I could run out there with the service truck to help them out. There again the crew I was dedicated to would have had to wait with their shiny big new combines because I would have been working on an 'old piece of junk'. LOL
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