This page will show some images of the difficulties that occur occasionally on most farms.
This highway is not covered with gold...this is corn and is the result of driver error. We had just hired him one day earlier and this was his first trip hauling to the evevator!
Luckily, the driver had only minor injuries but the truck was a total loss.
End result of a strong thunderstorm!
This shows the 3,000 feet long Mississippi River levee break that got us in 1993...bummer! The main river is not shown in this photo...it is above and to the right of the islands in this view.
The soils are so saturated with water that we can get stuck a lot...it is just like breaking through ice on a pond. You can see from the tracks that it happens suddenly! In this case we were able to pull a truck along the cart to offload the corn...and then a quick tug from a 4-wheel drive tractor and the cart popped right out. notice how deep the rut is! In the photo below...notice how large the combine and tires are in proportion to the truck. The lowboy trailer already has the side extensions pulled out but the combine still hangs over the extensions! This one year old combine had to go back to the dealership for a new engine...a $46,000.00 new engine!!! Thankfully, John Deere has a two year warranty on the powertrain!!!