Where I used to work:





Where I work now:

 

Nope, that's a C-17

 

I was referring to the C-17

 

Yeah, when those things spool up, they do get loud.

 

Thats what I figured

 

You guys have some awesome Job's. One of these days ill be outa highschool, outa college, and be doing one of these things! Most likely a networking job, or something to do with computers.

-Mike

 

This is our "new" combine where I spend my time during harvest.


And this is me operating one of our old MF 750 combines running through swatted (windrowed) wheat a couple years ago. This combine burned up later that fall though.

 

That happened to us about 3 years ago. My dad was starting in that field planting. He had just pulled in and was backing the planter into the corner of the field to start the first pass. As he started to back up the front end suddenly went down, one spindle snapped first which then caused the other one to snap. A trip to the junkyard and about 3 hours of work and we were back at it and it has been fine since.

The tanks on front are the main reason for them breaking...but we had run them for many years before having a problem. During planting they carried pre-emerge herbicide when we used that 6 row planter. Notice the long goosneck hitch and the cultivator mounted on the tractor before the planter. My dad and I built that hitch so that we could pull into a field that had not been worked at all. One pass took care of tillage, planting, and spraying. A definite advantage when you are working 1500 acres at only 15 feet per pass.

But now we have a 12 row (30 ft) planter that uses liquid starter fertilizer so the tanks are used for that and we have to make separate trips for tillage and spraying.

I would love to farm the rest of my life...but it just doesnt pay anymore.

 

to all of you who have such hard working jobs!


I don't have any pictures, but I work for a small law firm...nothing as exciting as some of you...(onemilmhz) LOL!!!

 

MN4x4,

Burnt up Massey Furgeson and a busted International, maybe you should buy some more of that John Deere equipment.

 

OPIE...

You may be right. But overall we have had pretty good luck with our IH tractors and MF combines. We had one other MF combine burn up a couple years ago too. It doesnt take much to start a combine burning...look at the conditions they run in. Dry, dusty crop material that doesnt take much to light on fire. All it takes is a hot bearing to throw a spark, or chaff in the hot engine compartment soaked with leaking fuel or oil, fueled by air blowing through the engine compartment from the rad. fan.

We have at least one or two smoldering fires each year that we catch before they spread and cause damage. We keep water for the small ones, and have extinguishers for the bigger ones. And a couple years ago I was driving one of our Masseys and I smelled smoke. I stopped the combine and shut down the engine so it wouldnt get fanned more. Opened up the engine compartment and there was a small chaff fire down between the exhaust manifold and engine block. Grab the water jug...EMPTY. Grab the fire extinguisher, doesnt work (it was an old one that lost its charge and we hadnt checked it). So Im like...now what?

Had a moment of inspiration, I unzipped my pants and peed on it. Worked like a charm! Found out that day that my talleywhacker also worked well as a fire extinguisher!

Those JDs burn pretty easy too. The local salvage yard has at least 15 JD combines like ours, all of them cab fires. I can see why too, when we installed the 4wd system on our combine this year I had to pull the instrument panel to wire in the switch that turns it on/off. Im not joking you the entire backside where all the wiring is was FILLED with soybean chaff. If you farm you know how bad this stuff is, its dry, fine, tiny little hairs that come off of the pods and they work their way into everything. With all the wiring that is back there, including high amp, heavy gauge wires for the ignition switch its no wonder why there are so many of these combines with torched cabs. And I mean torched, there is nothing left of them but bare metal. It burns everything else including the paint.

 

Three 213,000 HP, 179 Megawatt Gas Turbine Generators and three 118 Megawatt Steam Turbine Generators.

 

Wonder if that 179 Megawatt Gas Turbine would fit in the bed of my truck...

 

not that anybody cares, but i'll have pics up of where i'm working right now later this week. just gotta resize and upload them, but too tired right now

 

These are the type of projects that I work on when they are being built