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Harvest SeasonNumerous trips down the Fergus Freeway recently have provided extra time to ponder the subject matter for this week’s feature. Note, that’s “EXTRA” time, mostly spent waiting for all those 1953 Ford grain trucks to work their way up through the low side of the transmission pattern, as they inch their way toward the nearest facility. Possums and turtles have plenty of time to cross the road unmolested, farm dogs are able to take intruding cats twice around and still remain within their territorial bounds, and country boys with 10 in. Redwing boots can pace the more primitive trucks with their bikes for at least a quarter of a mile. It’s an annual ritual around here, and seasoned residents tend to take it all in stride. No matter how late you may be, you won’t get around that John Deere combine until he gets to the next field on his list, or finds a space big enough to allow him to pull aside without a neighbor losing his mailbox. In a rural environment, the term “rush hour” is something of a misnomer. Certainly the season is busy, but that usually means that since you can’t really work any faster, you simply have to work longer. The consequence, of course, is that a few more soccer moms driving flex-fuel crossover utility vehicles will be exposed to the slow-moving-vehicle signs on the backsides of your equipment. In this, the dawn of the Ethanol Era, one can hardly miss the irony here, but that’s a subject for another day. For now, the message seems clear, it’s harvest season, or better said, payday for the American Farmer. You wouldn’t want them standing in your way when you go to pick up your paycheck, let’s grant them the same indulgence as they work towards theirs. As you drum your fingers on the console, waiting to get around that old truck that is belching smoke and spewing internal lubricants from every orifice, take the moment to reflect rather than to rant, and if you’re lucky you might be able to remember a time when the harvest season looked a little more like the pictures below. (click individual photos to enlarge)
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