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Devils Lake, ND | Midwesterners will chime in here about the falls of '73 and '93. In 1973, they had to wait for the ground to freeze in December to skim the soybeans off the top of the frozen mud. Sugarbeets were more of a chore. They would go out when it froze just enough, like around 11 p.m., and quit when it either froze too hard, or melted and got greasy. That was back before soundguard cabs, of course, so one guy mounted a propane tank from his grill on the front of his Year-Around-equipped 4020, and put a 'sunflower' radiant heater in the cab.
They would dig beets all night, and just dump them in the yard, or on a gravel road. Then, during the day, they would load them up and haul them to the beet plant. You know there is nothing snottier than mud that has frozen and then thaws out. One trucker got his twin-screw GMC straight-truck stuck...on a paved road.
Edited by BSchroeder 10/24/2008 12:31
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Late Harvest
