Harvest

I decided work during the beet harvest this year. It only lasted a few weeks but we worked 14 hour days 6 days a week. I worked past Rupert in like Minidoka or somewhere close to that.

I worked in a tarehouse shown above on a piler.

Trucks pull up and my job was to track the truck number and take samples from every 3rd truck from the same grower and field. Beets are fed onto a hopper and carried up, the dirt is filtered onto another belt that is weighed and then the beets are dumped into a huge pile to be carried away later. The samples come through a tube into a bag.

Here's a picture of a busy day. We had 3 pilers at our dump. I was helping out in #1 for a little bit.

I worked in piler #2. The sampling was a lot different than the other two pilers. In ours, we had to place a bucket onto a lever that would catch beets. Then we took it inside and dumped it onto a tray with a bag attached at the bottom and then we would pick up the bag and toss it into a crate down below. Our piler was also up high, not on the ground like the others.

This was the biggest beet I saw, also the first one to be captured in my bucket. It was HUGE!

My co-worker Faith! We had so much fun and we carpooled together.

The end of the season view of all 3 dumps.

We thought it would be fun to climb the beets.