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I invite all current and former custom harvesters, harvest crewmembers, and farmers that hire custom harvesters to comment, post questions, and start dialogue about custom harvesting. I intend this to be a forum for people interested in custom harvesting, agriculture, the Great Plains region, Great Plains culture, Great Plains geography, Great Plains history, Great Plains communities, and probably additional topics too. I hope to get people involved who know more about the Great Plains than anybody else - custom harvesters. I have studied the Great Plains extensively in college, but I have learned at least as much through summers spent combining wheat (and a little barley). I will start more specific topical threads as I go. This is to be a forum for learning, discussion, and debate. Please do not use this blog for advertising, recruiting employees, or searching for employers. I expect contacts may be made through this blog, but that is not its purpose.
More Spartans
I really wish SOMEBODY would write something about their Spartan trailer(s). This is such a cool part of harvesting history and material culture. I saw one with dual wheels in Colby, KS one summer. There are still a lot of them around. Where did you find yours? I lived in one for a lot of summers. We had no air conditioning, but we did have a swamp cooler on the roof. And the big Spartan had a bigger swamp cooler on the front. It was a huge swamp cooler, let me tell you. I'm pretty sure the ones we had were Mobile Royal Mansions. Kevin used to call the "The Silverton" and "The Silver Slug." Read more about the Spartans at
http://www.spartantrailer.com/.
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