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Who else is getting this stinkin' wind?

Shelly

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It's blowing to beat the band here today, and the heat is unbearable. We've all been eating dirt, and having straw and chaff blowing down our shirts while we were getting the combine ready to go. Eyes are full of grit and tempers are flaring. Between this and the fact the guys worked till 3:00 this morning, I'm walking pretty softly around them. I'm lucky, I got to come home and have a shower because I don't need to go out for a few hours. Hubby's not bad off in the combine, but the poor best friend is in the thick of it. He gets to drive the grain truck and fill the bins. :( Man, I feel sorry for him!
 

Northern Rancher

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I was just thinking last night how the guys combining would love that drying wind-beats rain doncha think at harvest time. Rule of thumb in our country is you get done now or chances are you'll be combining in the snow-if we get a wet moon it tends to hang with us.
 

ranchwife

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HOWLING through this valley today.....high wind warnings for east of the divide and just on the other side of boze-angeles!!! hung clothes out to dry and were DONE within 10 minutes!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: Heard this is supposed to hang out through tomorrow!! :roll: :roll: :roll: Have to wait and see what this does to the fires south of us that were "contained" as of yesterday!! :cry:
 
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Anonymous

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Blew all night- so no dew, which didn't help with baling this morning...Blowing about 30mph and 94 degrees right now....Still have about 20 acres to bale, but need a good dew to do it- pretty dry and powdery- if it don't blow away, as they're predicting the wind to pick up tonite to possibly 40-45 mph.....

Yep ranchwife- They're predicting one more day of this heat- then highs in the 70's starting Thursday :) I heard Pulaski say they could even expect snow above the 7000 foot level.....
 

ranchwife

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Oldtimer said:
Blew all night- so no dew, which didn't help with baling this morning...Blowing about 30mph and 94 degrees right now....Still have about 20 acres to bale, but need a good dew to do it- pretty dry and powdery- if it don't blow away, as they're predicting the wind to pick up tonite to possibly 40-45 mph.....

Yep ranchwife- They're predicting one more day of this heat- then highs in the 70's starting Thursday :) I heard Pulaski say they could even expect snow above the 7000 foot level.....

YAYYYYY!!! SNOWWWWW!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: oooopssss....don't let cowboyup know that i am secretly praying for the white stuff...he absolutely HATES winter and thinks that moving to the sunny side of the slopes is in our future!!! :roll: :roll:
 

DJL

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Hey Shelley, sorry to hear you're eating dirt. I hate getting crap blown into the eyes! Its blowing here too, but of course there are no farm fields to blow dirt, so just get to enjoy the smoke from which ever fire it's coming from. Forecast says rain, so hopefully we'll get some when this wind dies. Hope the rest of your harvest goes smooth.
 

Angus Cattle Shower

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We're getting it... since Im the youngest guy on the "harvest team" (why cant the lil brother help out? lol) i 'got' to run behind the two combines and set them... they got them all fuled as soon as i got off the bus... talk about bad timing. lol. I get to shower in 20 mins cause the sister is in there... liove the combine but grandpa and his brother in law that trades being a mechanic for driving combine get to drive... and it was his idea!!! lol. Glad im not old enopugh to drive semi and tandem today. lol.
 

Shelly

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Well, I just got done with my second shower, guys are still at it. Wind's died down some but not completely. My eyes are aching from the dirt. Heard today a combine caught fire not too far from us, burned up quite a chunk of land, four miles wide at it's peak. Only good thing about the wind is that it was taking the fire away from us.
 

cowsense

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Shelley; Every chance I got today I was checking the country for smoke; a fire in this wind is pure terror! We got hit hard about this time of year in 98; was the same kinda day.........burned out or touched on 17 quarters before we got it out!
 

IL Rancher

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Nothing worse than the wind when have to be outside in it. We generally get real high sustained winds during the spring. Everytime there is a nice temperature day the wind is howling out of the south, lifting up the sand out of the old marsh bottoms that were drained and pelting you with it.. The winter winds are bad enough but those March/early April winds really nock it ouf of you...

Earliest we have had snow since we moved here was Thanksgiving while earliest freeze was September 10th or something like that dropped into the low 20's... Reallly early and dashed any dreams of a fall grazing period.. Usually we get Until October 10th-15th before a hard frost and than we generally get a nice warm up at the end of October (Indian Summer) when it is just, perhaps at least, the nicest time of the year...

I love the snow too, just don't like it when I am calving.. Guess that is why I pushed calving bak into Spring.. Latest snow we have had here was April 1st and it didn't stick. Miss the mountains for that. first year in Montana I know we had 3-4 inches at the house on Hallowen, Snowed on Thanksgiving (Just a dusting), 3 feet on Christmas eve/Christmas (Glad I didn't have cows to take care of and finally snowed again on the 4th of july although it barely stook... That was fun.
 
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