Sunflower Harvest: It's an Art 

My Dad lost his class ring unloading a load of hay into the hay barn at the auction barn, never found it. It wasn't too long after he got it, either...

It's nice to see a real believer and at such a young age. His parents must be proud.

That’s a good idea. A couple years ago I was having trouble with my rotary screen (piece of plastic on the combine had a hole on it) and I carried a gas one out for that. Was a bugger to get started though and got hot so I wasn’t too excited to use it. Battery powered one would be a good idea though! Thanks!

@@beetfarminmitch I purchased a M18 version a year a go for one specific task. I have used it for so much more than I ever thought I would. It's a great tool to have.

​@@beetfarminmitch from zambia interested in sunflower growing. Please help

Meteorite pieces are very valuable, contact geology dept at your nearest University !

My granddad plowed his wallet under one year with their last seven dollars in it, but he found it the following year... Grandma never let him forget it, either LOL:)

For loose stuff, yeah a leaf blower is MUCH faster, but that stuff looked pretty "caked" on and can be a lot harder for a leaf blower to catch hold of and rip off...

Horse shoes are awesome to find. Crazy to think that wasn’t that long ago that horses were the primary source of horse power on the farm.

I found an Indian hammer head while engaged in the same activity.

It causes some loss. Some guys say they run with just the pans and no drum on the machine at all. It can be hard for them to feed if there’s no drum in certain conditions. Horse a piece I suppose

@@beetfarminmitch Thanks for the reply. I'm a 76yr old guy, retired from agriculture. I live in west central Mn west of Willmar. Years ago sunflowers were introduced to our area so I'm familiar with them. You make some nice videos young man, thanks for sharing them with us. My, how the equipment has changed over the years! Tha last piece of farm equipment I ran was a 8820 JD combine. I am so glad to hear a young couple express their faith in God so that the world can see what is the most important thing in your life, and to whom you give the glory to. Merry Christmas to you and yours! Ron. P.S. My mom's side of the family came from the valley, Weymere, Davenport area.

Our farm pond went dry back in '83 in a bad drought, and my sister decided to walk out across the bottom to the edge of the puddle of water in the middle to see the minnows, and she ended up sinking in the muck to her waist. I had to try to get her out because Dad was too heavy, he couldn't get within 15-20 feet of her without sinking. Even I, who was skinny kid at the time, had to crawl out on hands and knees on a couple old boards to kep from sinking, and then just get close enough to throw a rope around her... then we hauled her out. Sucked one of her brand new tennis shoes right off her foot. She was caked with mud from the waist down, and Dad wouldn't let her ride on the new tractor back to the house, she had to walk up the hill through the sand burs to get back to the house and get washed off with the hose... she was bawling and upset, but she was the goofball that did it to herself... Found her shoe a couple decades later when the pond went COMPLETELY dry and was hard enough to hold up the tractor, and I dug it out with the front end loader to make it deeper and get rid of the sand that washed in over the years... came up out of the pond with a load of muck and dirt and dumped it and presto there was her shoe in the loose dirt... Dad had a "Texaco Tanker" toy ship about 2 feet long with a battery in it that spun the propeller in the back and you could adjust the rudder so it would sail in circles... he had put it in the pond when he was a kid and somehow or another it sank, according to him, front end went down rear end kicked up in the air like the Titanic and down she went, never to be seen again. Well, until the early 90's when the pond went dry and I was goofing around and found it in the muck... It was okay but the motor and battery were a mess of course...

I pretty much cut them as high as I can without heads slipping under. The higher you cut them the less stalks you send though which is good. We usually run a salford or disk though the field after harvest and that helps chop up the stalks good.

They have to be dry to be harvested. Wet, immature sunflowers aren't good for much except decoration.