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anyone do the harvest in america

  • 24-11-2012 11:43pm
    #1
    jockey joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭


    hi i was thinking of going doing the harvest in america next year has anyone done it iwould lie a bit of info on it


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  • #2
    shy_boy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 159 ✭✭shy_boy


    dont have any info on this joe but wouldnt mind trying that myself


  • #3
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    shy_boy wrote: »
    dont have any info on this joe but wouldnt mind trying that myself

    I did harvests in both uk and US machinery and scale of operation in US is unreal but you'd learn more and earn more on a modest good tillage farm in uk,£stg is strong, dollar not great


  • #4
    yellow50HX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,828 ✭✭✭yellow50HX


    Did both back in tne mid 90's. got the one in the us through a neighbour that. was working over there at the same as me, and his crew were short one. I think they were agencies working here but dont know any of them.


  • #5
    jockey joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭jockey joe


    Bodacious wrote: »
    I did harvests in both uk and US machinery and scale of operation in US is unreal but you'd learn more and earn more on a modest good tillage farm in uk,£stg is strong, dollar not great
    who did you work for in the uk


  • #6
    Grass Hopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭Grass Hopper


    Went out through Ohio State Uni in April 2000 but decided to go to a tillage farm in North Dakota rather than a combine crew and was the best thing I ever did.
    Great experience and great people,get it done before women or mortgages stop you :p


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  • #7
    Conor556
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Conor556


    Grass Hopper wrote: »
    Went out through Ohio State Uni in April 2000 but decided to go to a tillage farm in North Dakota rather than a combine crew and was the best thing I ever did.
    Great experience and great people,get it done before women or mortgages stop you :p

    Is america better than new zealand??


  • #8
    Grass Hopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭Grass Hopper


    Conor556 wrote: »
    Is america better than new zealand??
    Depends what you want from your trip,personally I dont think you can compare either and if your into farm machinery you should look to do both.America is a scale we will never see in this country and a lifestyle thats unique also.
    New Zealand is similar in ways to Ireland machinery wise but you will get the chance to operate machines over there that otherwise might take years to worjk your way onto here with a contractor like driving the harvester or triple mowers.


  • #9
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Grass Hopper wrote: »
    Went out through Ohio State Uni in April 2000 but decided to go to a tillage farm in North Dakota rather than a combine crew and was the best thing I ever did.
    Great experience and great people,get it done before women or mortgages stop you :p

    Jees i went 1999, mike o keefe or john beardmore or sadie no doubt, good crack!


  • #10
    Grass Hopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭Grass Hopper


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Jees i went 1999, mike o keefe or john beardmore or sadie no doubt, good crack!
    Mike O' Keeffe,top man,as sound a lad as you could hope to meet ;)


  • #11
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Grass Hopper wrote: »
    Mike O' Keeffe,top man,as sound a lad as you could hope to meet ;)

    Bit of a legend no doubt, did you do the day at the office learning to STOP at the flashing light on a school bus too?!!


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  • #12
    Grass Hopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭Grass Hopper


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Bit of a legend no doubt, did you do the day at the office learning to STOP at the flashing light on a school bus too?!!
    Did some bit of dirt in the office about respecting cultures etc :rolleyes: then into the city for a big slap up meal and register for my PPS number in an IRS office before depositing me on a Greyhound bus for a 28hr nonstop trip to ND........aahhh the memories :D


  • #13
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Grass Hopper wrote: »
    Did some bit of dirt in the office about respecting cultures etc :rolleyes: then into the city for a big slap up meal and register for my PPS number in an IRS office before depositing me on a Greyhound bus for a 28hr nonstop trip to ND........aahhh the memories :D

    That's right.. an absolute conveyor belt, i was only an hour down the road for a year placement so i used to see more of them, was the french girl Christina .. she would have been in the office in2000 id say:cool:


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