The '24 Iowa Harvest thread

[Turn2]

Everyone knows harvest season is the best time of the year in Iowa. But there are so many Cyclone exports and transplants that many don't get to enjoy it anymore. But we can live vicariously though those who live it. Whether it's the beautiful fall landscapes, unexpected wildlife, pegging the yield monitor or whatever brightens your day, feel free to share it here. We know you're out there. We've seen the stubble. Give us some of that cab's eye view.

Sorry, all I've got to kick this off is this ~30 year old piece of nostalgia.

 

[CloneLawman]

 

[wxman1]

I enjoy being around my "family" farm. Used to be my grandparents now my cousin and his kids work it. Always offer to help and am willing to learn but never get taken up on my offers. Stay safe all!

 

[CloneFanInKC]

Everyone knows harvest season is the best time of the year in Iowa. But there are so many Cyclone exports and transplants that many don't get to enjoy it anymore. But we can live vicariously though those who live it. Whether it's the beautiful fall landscapes, unexpected wildlife, pegging the yield monitor or whatever brightens your day, feel free to share it here. We know you're out there. We've seen the stubble. Give us some of that cab's eye view.

Sorry, all I've got to kick this off is this ~30 year old piece of nostalgia.

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My father owned a Case IH dealership. Wish I kept track of how many 16 series combines I power washed and waxed as a kid.

 

[Sigmapolis]

 

[PineClone]

Everyone knows harvest season is the best time of the year in Iowa. But there are so many Cyclone exports and transplants that many don't get to enjoy it anymore. But we can live vicariously though those who live it. Whether it's the beautiful fall landscapes, unexpected wildlife, pegging the yield monitor or whatever brightens your day, feel free to share it here. We know you're out there. We've seen the stubble. Give us some of that cab's eye view.

Sorry, all I've got to kick this off is this ~30 year old piece of nostalgia.

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Great post. Thank you!

 

[Cyclonesrule91]

Love harvest! Won't be long and we'll be out there

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Listening to baseball games while driving the wagon next to the combine is a great memory for me. I can still remember all of the smells associated with it all.

Also, there is something satisfying about diving your hands into a bunch of harvested corn and letting it run through your fingers.

 

[Al_4_State]

Cutting beans a mile north of the IA/MN border with a storm rolling in

 

[cydnote]

Everyone knows harvest season is the best time of the year in Iowa. But there are so many Cyclone exports and transplants that many don't get to enjoy it anymore. But we can live vicariously though those who live it. Whether it's the beautiful fall landscapes, unexpected wildlife, pegging the yield monitor or whatever brightens your day, feel free to share it here. We know you're out there. We've seen the stubble. Give us some of that cab's eye view.

Sorry, all I've got to kick this off is this ~30 year old piece of nostalgia.

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Awesome view and great thread idea. In my immediate area, you better have your camera on standby, as fields are wiped out in a matter of hours. 12 row heads, 1000bu+ grain carts and 2-3 semis make short work of what used to take days. I remember my dad thinking he had the world by the tail when he purchased his first sheller attachment for his 2 row mounted picker. The wagons we filled back then held less than what many combine grain tanks do now. Anybody else remember six inch augers and bins that had no sweep augers? Storage bins that held about the same as current semi trailers? Filling corn cribs with ear corn?

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Awesome view and great thread idea. In my immediate area, you better have your camera on standby, as fields are wiped out in a matter of hours. 12 row heads, 1000bu+ grain carts and 2-3 semis make short work of what used to take days. I remember my dad thinking he had the world by the tail when he purchased his first sheller attachment for his 2 row mounted picker. The wagons we filled back then held less than what many combine grain tanks do now. Anybody else remember six inch augers and bins that had no sweep augers? Storage bins that held about the same as current semi trailers? Filling corn cribs with ear corn?

Our farm cats LOVED the day when we emptied our corn crib. It was mouse genocide day.

 

[mkadl]

Wow. Memories good food at morning lunch and noon dinner. The best neighbors always helped. Supper was good too that day.

 

[CloneFanInKC]

Wow. Memories good food at morning lunch and noon dinner. The best neighbors always helped. Supper was good too that day.

Shelling corn was always good work. I usually ended up in the top pushing it down and avoiding mice.

 

[CloneFanInKC]

I saw beans being combined around Clinton, MO last week.

 

[JM4CY]

Jealous.

 

[Kinch]

My dad had a radio on international farmall he used helping a friend. Listened to twins baseball during planting season and Pete Taylor during harvest.

 

[CloneFanInKC]

Grew up in central Iowa. I always associate the smell of corn harvest with HS football on Friday night.

 

[Kinch]

Beans being combined in Se Iowa.

 

[CloneFanInKC]

My dad had a radio on international farmall he used helping a friend. Listened to twins baseball during planting season and Pete Taylor during harvest.

I fell in love with ISU on Saturdays working in my dad’s shop listening to Pete Taylor.

 

[JEFF420]

nothing better in the cab than listening to dolph puke his lunch while the hawks lose