Threshing Day 2009

The final report on this year’s grain harvest is that the threshing was held on Saturday, August 29,  2009 on the home farm in Richland County. Despite a misty start to the day we had cool, comfortable weather. We threshed two loads of oats, yielding 95 bushels of oats and a nice wagonload of straw. I’m grateful to Dan McCormick for allowing me to cut some of his oats for this event.

After the work was done I took the people who remained for a ride up onto our ridge field. Because of the shower in the morning, I took the reverse route from what I usually do, expecting the top of the ridge road we usually go up to be muddy. When that is the case, driving up it creates ruts and runs the risk of getting stuck. The other ridge road is steeper and rocky at the top, and in poorer shape; so I usually come down that one. Going up, I got to a point where the tractor wheels were spinning from the load of people in the trailer I was pulling; so I had to ask them to get off and walk up the rest of the way. Continuing on around to the top of the other ridge road, I was amazed to find it to be perfectly dry. To think we used to bring loads of hay and corn down those ridge roads!

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