I am getting a real lesson in the Logistics of moving straw---these guys are good and know what they are doing. It's fun to work with folks like that.
Storage area where bales are off loaded from the trucks and transported to the helispots.
Tractor pulled bale wagons move the straw six miles uphill 12 bales at a time---that's about 7 tons.
It is put into one of several stacks at the helispot. This is 1/4 to 1/6 of the straw we need to fly depending on how the coverage goes when the bales are released from the helicopter.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
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That sounds very expensive to distribute by helicopter.
Yes it is---very expensive---but it stops a lot of the soil loss we are expecting in the spring.
It's a $5 1/2 million project, Looney.
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