wheat harvest?

[okieoo]

Any of you all ever been on a wheat harvest?>

What was the pay like?

[Orangetxguy]

Any of you all ever been on a wheat harvest?>

What was the pay like?

$16.00 a day plus "Found"!!! 18 hour days!! Chaffee up the wazzooo!! Dust? You ain't seen dust until you work wheat!!

















Oooooooh! Wait! You wanted "recent" harvest experience didn't ya?





That was 1973 wages............in Montana!!

[okieoo]

$16.00 a day plus "Found"!!! 18 hour days!! Chaffee up the wazzooo!! Dust? You ain't seen dust until you work wheat!!

















Oooooooh! Wait! You wanted "recent" harvest experience didn't ya?





That was 1973 wages............in Montana!!

I know about the dust as we combine our own oats,but the $16.00 a day was a little light for me..even in 73!

Thanks for the reply.

[okieoo]

In case anyone else is interested,I have been contacted by 2 people needing driver.

The general pay,as best I can figure.

$2000 a month for CDL school graduates and $2500 a month is what they offered me.
That includes a bunk and 2 meals a day. Work 7 days a week,all day,unless it is raining.

[Jackrabbit379]

Don't worry, Orange. It hasn't changed much in the last 30 years. The pay that is.
Okie, $2000 a month is good harvest wages. The guys that I know have some South Africans working for them, but they are still needing hands. I'm not sure what they pay now days. When I went on harvest, I got $300 a week. Of course, that was during the Ice Age.
If you really want to go on harvest, let me know. They could use some good hands. Also, you could drive a big ole Pete (like the one in my avatar). That's one of their trucks. It's old, but it runs like a scalded ape!

I wished I could go on harvest. If I could afford it, I would still keep going every year. It drives me nuts, not being able to go. I have to drive this piece of fine machinery that International makes every night. I could be in a Johnny Deere combine, and a long Pete, but nooooo, I got to drive this fine equipment that sysco has.

[okieoo]

I am thinking about it. I am going to buy another truck and go back to hauling fuel,but I might try the harvest first.
One has offered to pay me more than $2500,but I dont know how much more.
Right now I am trying to get him to let me just do a 30 day commintment.I hate to sign on until November not knowing what I am really getting in to.

[Orangetxguy]

In case anyone else is interested,I have been contacted by 2 people needing driver.

The general pay,as best I can figure.

$2000 a month for CDL school graduates and $2500 a month is what they offered me.
That includes a bunk and 2 meals a day. Work 7 days a week,all day,unless it is raining.

That right there...that's the "Found". Only I got day-meals....plus a beef every 6 month's for the family....electric service.....telephone service...a pickup to drive (had to have something to pull the horse trailer).....and for a kid still in high school....I didn't have it half bad!

[homer]

[..I didn't have it half bad![/QUOTE]
was in that farming biz 13 years.
one hell of a lot of work. the real payday was selling the land.
if a farmer owes you money its real tuff ringing it out of him.
ever deal with a horse trader?
i got into trucking and never looked back.their is some similiarities between farmers and big trucking companies i guess