Team work

100 years ago it would have taken dozens of men many days to harvest this field beside our house. Now a combine harvester can do the whole job automatically by cutting, threshing and separating the chaff from the grain using a series of rotating blades, wheels, sieves and elavators with the grain being collected in a tank while the straw collects behind to be later made into straw bales. Today with the two combine harvesters working it is possible to do this huge field in a day although they started yesterday evening before heavy rain stopped them.

By 9 o’clock New Holland had already started and can be seen in the background unloading grain into the trailer. (in large) The tractors have to move alongside the combine at the same speed so that the grain is loaded evenly into the trailer. Claas here is being checked over while more tractors await their turn to take on more barley. It is very much a case of cooperation and team work between them all.