The Bean Puller

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The bean puller sets on the front of the tractor, is full of special rods that pull up the beans and push them into rows.

The Bean Puller

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When pulled the beans are allowed to dry for at least a week.  The weather needs to hold, hot and dry.  If the rains come the rows will be smashed flat and the beans buried in the mud.  Not good!  Hot, dry weather, no wind, is what we need now.

Time to Pull the Beans to Ready for Harvest

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Pulling the beans and heaping them into a row, takes dew.  Mornings are chilly now so it is back to wearing a coat as the farming process continues. 

The Ditch is Full of Mud

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So Terry made a Scraper, which will clean out all the mud, without the backbreaking work of shoveling.