Storm damage pics
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Topic: Storm damage pics
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Subject: Storm damage pics
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2020 at 6:11am
Been a hectic week, and very stressful. Making progress on the clean-up and having power/internet, thought I'd post some pics of the mayhem. Most of my Orange things got through this intact. The 185 has a wall leaning on it and got some sheet-metal damage I think. Combine, (red) took the brunt of the leaning wall. It will need an unloading auger and probably a little more. The house was spared and the smaller buildings. Machine shed is a total loss. Didn't get a picture of the corn on the camera I use for this site, it's FLAT.    |
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2020 at 6:34am
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I must be getting old ( 67)... as long as everyone's SAFE, 'stuff' can get rebuilt.... I'm hoping you have a woodstove... dang that's a BIG tree, well, was.... Hopefully you can get the tractor old to help you.please, just be careful !! Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2020 at 6:35am
Sorry to see you lost your shed. Hang in there, we'll all get through this. Our buildings got very little damage. The whole yard looks like this. There is WD in the photo.   Cooking over an open fire for hot food. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2020 at 6:55am
| All can think is just Damn!! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2020 at 9:59am
| wow....whew....that's rough! i have a 1440 and a 1460 parts combines if you need parts, good augers |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2020 at 1:10pm
| to add insult to injury those in effected ares have lost bins and elevators have been destroyed as well....what will/can they do with this falls crop?(that survived) It is a real nightmare for many. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2020 at 2:20pm
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Mike, you got hit pretty hard. That is a big mess to clean up not to mention rebuilding and repairing damaged buildings. Hope the Feds will come in quickly with help for all of the farmers affected by this. Be careful out there and stay safe. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2020 at 7:02am
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Thanks for the good thoughts guys, I do appreciate it. Jaybmiller; you are right "stuff" can be repaired/replaced and everyone is fine, that's good. plummerscarin; interesting way to cook hotdogs! Did you disinfect first? Shamless; I'll keep that in mind, a road trip to get parts would be a nice diversion about now! After 7 days with the chainsaws and the 6080 I'm getting back close to (the new) normal. Sat**day my uncle and a good friend helped, much faster than trying to do it all yourself. Sunday those two were back and my cousin and his son helped too. I can't say enough good about the cousin, he brought his new case skidsteer and hauled logs/brush for hours. I will bet having him and that machine there took two or three days off the job! I'm heading out there soon to continue, will take some updated pics. Hopefully an adjuster gets here sometime this week and I can start getting things out of that white barn.
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Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2020 at 11:01am
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Sorry you have to put up with all the trouble. One positive thing is that you could always build a bigger machine shed... |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2020 at 2:06pm
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Sad to look at all that damage and I sure hope you all out there that loat your crops get compensated, just be careful with the cleanup. Prayers for all
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Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2020 at 12:10am
This one is near me. There used to be 4 bins there. Only a couple years old. Don't know what happened to the 4th one. The shed door blew in and buckled the end wall then blew out the side wall. Typical of damage in the storm path. I'm told the winds hit 130mph. 
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Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2020 at 5:03am
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The storm has affected a huge area! My thoughts and prayers to all in its path. Looking at these pictures and thinking of damage to the crops, downed by winds, farmsteads damaged, thinking what else can go wrong! ------------- |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2020 at 5:52am
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Prayers going out to all who were affected by this storm. I hope and pray y’all come out ok over your crop loss and structure/ machinery loss. |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2020 at 7:27am
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Not related to the storm, but the bins. Yesterday I saw a 30,000 bu. bin that a guy in turning into a home. Dusty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2020 at 1:54pm
| That corn didn't look damaged at least in that picture |
Posted By: Tim NH
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2020 at 6:07pm
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Mike did that old pole with your transformer on it come down. Tim ------------- 1950 WD 1959 D14 1955 WD45 1976 7000 B 207 |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2020 at 6:35pm
| That corn fared better than others. Was on a street south of Cedar Rapids that runs north/south. The field on the west side laid flat and dying. Field on right side in much better condition. Can't explain that other than variety, planting date, or overall health of that field |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2020 at 8:24am
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Tim NH wrote:Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2020 at 12:29pm
| Had a damage assessment done today by a man sent by my insurance company. He is up from Texas to help with the work load. He said he had never seen a damage path like this before even though he regularly covers hurricane damage |
Posted By: Tim NH
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2020 at 4:58pm
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I know the feeling of seeing another AC transformer taken out of service. Back then the transformer oil in them had PCB's in it. Bad stuff, hope they cleaned the ground up. ------------- 1950 WD 1959 D14 1955 WD45 1976 7000 B 207 |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2020 at 3:20pm
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HOLY COW Mike,,,,,,, I'm just seeing this now after texting you today. WOW!! No wonder you had the 45 for sale. As if you needed some more wood to cut up....did you ever get caught up from before? ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2020 at 8:07am
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Ted, I did not need any more 'firewood'. I cut up some of the walnut in burnable size pieces in the early going. There was so much wood down that we just started cutting it in logs and made a pile to be dealt with later. Only saved walnut, hackberry, amd one elm for future burning. All the silver maple went in the burn pile. Several tons of it I'm sure. I'm starting to get caught up but will be busy until the snow flies, pretty sure. Starter took a crap in the combine the day we tore down the barn around it. Got a replacement from a buddy, it was for a tractor, they mount differently. Turns out they won't start spinning backwards! They are fun to change too! Original starter now at the local repair shop, will hopefully get the one in there back out today.
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Posted By: farmboy520
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2020 at 8:30am
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It's been 11 years since a tornado hit my place and I still feel the pain your going through in the clean up process. You are still here and your stuff can be replaced or fixed. You will come out of this and it'll be ok. Just keep praying for strength. ------------- On the farm: Agco Allis 9695, 7060, 7010, R66, Farmall H, and Farmall F20 (Great Grandpa's) |
Posted By: Dennis(IA)
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2020 at 6:30pm
| WOW that is bad. I am north of Indianola and did not get near the wind you got. Maybe 80 mph or less, just a lot of sticks to pickup. There are some big branches broken as I drive around. We did see a show of sparks and big booms. The wind was blowing the tree branches into the power lines (going to neighbors house) on the west side of our property. It finally blew the fuse on the power pole. We never lost power. |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2020 at 8:40am
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Dennis, there seems to be no end to the sticks that can be picked up! I have mowed about 1/3 of the yard that was cleaner, still had to drive around some I missed. |