End of the Summer Out West

Well I am finally putting up the last of the pictures from the summer. Sorry it took so long but I got kind of busy with school starting. These pictures are from the last stop for Harvest Support in Minot, North Dakota and the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.

We had to take a trip down into South Dakota to see a customer who had a huge job there. He has eight machines and had all of them working in this area. The first picture is of a combine unloading into a grain cart and the cart unloading into a semi. The second is of all the machines running in one field with two grain carts and two of the many semi's that were moving in and out of the field continuously. The last picture is of all the machines but one stopped for lunch. The one missing stopped early for lunch so he was already back out cutting.




This is what is called a North Dakota dinosaur. There is all kinds of old machines parked in pastures just sitting there. Farmers park them on top of hills along the roads for people to see I guess. It was pretty cool to see these antiques just sitting out in the open all alone where they used to run.


A few of the farmers and the dealership in Minot say that the New Holland combines look like bees so a few of them put stickers on the side of a bee like this one. They told me there is another combine that has the same type of bee with a Deer being stung on it. I didn't get to see it though.


These are a few pictures of the New Holland lot at the Farm Progress Show. The first one is the 9080 which is the largest combine in North America with 523 HP. It is only the largest in North America because New Holland has one in Europe, the 9090, which is the largest in the world with 620 HP. During the show I stood next to the 9080 and talked to people about the combine and the stuff I did over the summer. It was a lot of fun to meet all the people. They usually would talk to me more too since I was not really working for New Holland full time and had an honest opinion about the combines with experience to back it up.








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