It is very hard for me to believe that we are in October, let alone Beet harvest! But, with the 1st of October comes the 1st day of campaign. They started at 8 a.m. yesterday and will run now for 24 hours until there is either a heat shut down or rain (like hard continuous rain) they work through sprinkles and, believe it or not, snow. If they get "sticky" with rain they pull the trucks through the field with a tractor. We pray against that :)
This is the beet lifter.
The beet lifter dumps the beets into a truck that takes it to the beet piler where they store all the beets till Spring.
It is quite the production. Alot of long hours riding in a truck or a tractor, but we so appreciate everyone that comes back to help us out year after year. This year Rob is actually behind the equipment, he is driving the Semi from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. He usually is the maintenance/supervisor/fill in guy. I think he likes the change this year. Of course, if something breaks down he has to stop driving and fix whatever needs fixing, so that is the risk. I am praying for an uneventful campaign, please join me!
2 comments:
such a fascinating job! i will pray for an unevntful harvest, too.
Thanks Suz,
We have been shut down for 2 days now with 2 inches of rain that fell sunday nite and monday. They are hoping for a lot of sunshine and wind to be back in the field by Friday.
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