My dad and brother were trying to get the corn off of the bottom fields before hurricane Sandy came for a visit. I tagged along for a while and took these shots of an old house nearby. It must have been glorious in its day. Now its appropriate for Halloween...
The chimneys look like they could fall off at any time...
The outhouse is considerably newer than the house because it was rebuilt after a fire some years ago...
The pump probably still works...
My brother runs the combine while my dad shuttles grain wagons back and forth to the bins...
Google maps shows these bottom fields as lakes. Most of the time they aren't...
Corn stalks entering the combine head and being torn apart...
This is the corn coming into the combine...
Riding back home...
The corn being dumped into the new bin system. This corn is going to spend a couple of days in the wet bin (i.e. the hopper bottom)...
The auger takes the corn to the elevator where it is lifted about 80ft and flung into the distributor. The distributor determines what bin it goes in...
This is the nearby creek that is probably flooding today...
All of the corn did make it off of the bottom fields before the end of the day...
Playing with the fisheye lens...
The control panel for the augers, elevator, etc...
View from the top of one of the bins as they transition from the bottom fields to one of the hills...
Hopper bottom bin with the fisheye lens...
Bins and the elevator...
Love the pics!
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