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Click on the photos to see an enlarged picture. Click on your back button to return to this page. June 1-2: Hobart, Oklahoma
June
1 –
Cereal and sweet rolls, juice, coffee or milk is out for breakfast.
Then the last trucks are hooked up to the trailer houses. All
the electric cords, sewer hook-ups, water hoses, telephone wires
and cable TV lines, and clotheslines and poles are put away for
safe travel. It takes everyone working together to make sure
nothing is left behind and the trailer court is cleaned where
we were parked. We will be coming back here next year so we want
to leave the area in good shape. We leave town by sunup as it
is best to travel in the cooler part of the day and there’s not
as much traffic on the roads at this time. We make it to our
next stop on the harvest run by
June 2 – Carl and Vic have gone to town in the service truck to get fuel for the combines. This is an every morning job and sometimes, they go again in the evening if the combines are running a long day. Fuel prices are affecting our profit margin. With the low market prices for crops, the farmer is limited as to how much of an increase he can afford in his costs for custom harvesting. As harvesters, we have to work with the farmer to insure a reasonable profit for both of us. The yields in this area this year are normal to above normal so the volume of grain will make up the difference so the farmer can afford the increase in harvesting costs to cover the higher fuel costs. It is hot and dry today! |
