Right after breakfast and the next set of irrigation water on the alfalfa field, Terry, Boomer, and I header over to hook-up the bean puller and bar.
This is the bean puller
And hook up the bar on the back of the 730. You understand that Terry does most the work. Boomer is off somewhere checking out the news and I’m pretty much there to give him a tool, or the handyman jack, or move something out the way. 🙂
That’s the blade…the puller pulls the beans out the ground and the blade cuts off any stems the puller misses.
The pinto beans are ready. The plant is dry, with only the weeds staying green and growing.
Up and down, careful, careful…you don’t want to run over the plants and loose your crop.
Slowly, ever so slowly,
The beans are put into rows. Once the day warms up, Terry stops— warmer air will dry the dew off the pods causing the pods to split and spill the beans.
Tomorrow (if all goes well) he will put on a different blade and go out and lift all the rows UP so they are fluffy and can have air circulate among the plants.
Then we wait. Terry says (if the warm weather holds and NO rain), in about a week the green weeds should be dry and he can start combining.
Harvest! A huge process with nice results.
Your friend on a Western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Hope the weather stays good for you ❤
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Thanks, Gill! Fingers crossed we have lots of drying weather!
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Thanks for showing and explaining the first step in your pinto bean harvest. I hope the weather cooperates as you all work to get the harvest in
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Boy, we so agree with you! Finger, toes and magic thoughts and a few prayers all along the way!
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The cycle of crops and life on your farm is endlessly fascinating. And Peggy LOVED your pictures of the John Deere tractor. She was sitting on my lap when I was reading and just full of joy.
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Ours are so old people want them to restore. Tee Hee!
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Hooray! Pinto beans! Did you get the rain we sent a couple days ago, or is this the wrong time of year?
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It came over, but really didn’t stop. You can hang on to the rain for a couple of weeks now, if you don’t mind. 🙂
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Happily!
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Very nice results ~ very tasty, too!
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Fresh pintos are nothing like you find in the store dry bean section…nothing.
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Farm equipment (and people who use it) is quite ingenious.
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Ours is considered antique, but it still works for us. 🙂
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I can’t begin to imagine the back-breaking work that must have gone into this harvest before the invention of modern machinery.
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It takes tons of different machines now…you are so right!
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Very interesting! Seems like a very delicate process. Good luck!
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It is! Those dry, dry, pods!
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Nerve wracking!
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Never seen those sorts of attachments, and no clue how they work. Thanks for the explanation and pictures!
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neat to see the process!
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Harvest time! So exciting! Love, love, love watching the farm schedule as the seasons march on.
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I’m glad you and Cupcake are coming along with us! 🙂
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Oh, so very little technology for such a hugely important process!
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I LOVE that tractor!!
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So does Terry! 🙂
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It all looks so lovely, with no people, just you and Terry and Boomer… it must be so peaceful…
My crises are taking me down to the wire … but will write when this last hurdle has been jumped… I think it’s the last anyway !!!!
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I hope it is…you have had a long, long time of it! HUGS!
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