Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Kansas, Pratt - Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - Moving More Bales


We headed south out of Pratt today to pick up some bales David had to move out of some waterways.  If I understand it right the waterways are where the runoff from the fields would naturally flow.  They are left untilled so they don’t wash away and the grass that grows there is baled.  I know one thing for sure – they get really rough in places!
David had the skid steer on a trailer behind one truck and we had a 40 foot bale wagon behind the other.

 
 
Think maybe we are out in the middle of nowhere?  However "nowhere" has a lot of oil wells pumping steadily.
 
 
Let’s go get those bales.


This is the first bale going on.
 
And, this is the last one.
 

As we were coming back through Pratt to deliver the bales I remembered to take a picture of their “Hot” and “Cold” water tanks.  These are no longer in use, but they are good for a chuckle every time I go by them.
 
 
Once we got to the delivery site it took all of a minute to dump the bales where they belonged.  The trailer raises on one side and the bales just roll off. 
 
 
I’m sure people are glad to see this guy coming.  The sand on the roads can blow up into drifts that are worse to get through than snow.  Today with winds blowing steadily at 30 or more mph David said a “lot of real estate was changing hands”.  While I was out of the truck taking pictures, I had trouble keeping the camera steady, so some of the pictures may be a little blurry.  For this one, I was taking the picture through the truck window as we were bumping along.
 
 

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