Picking Rocks

 On my way to Tampa for the weekend,

I had to drive right past the potato farm,

so I decided to pop in.

Kyle was in the back, driving the digger.

So I didn't get to visit him...

but Jim was up front!

That's Jim in the hat, picking rocks out of the potatoes as

they go up the ramp and into the big trailer.

Cue Lucille Ball making chocolates.

Kyle and Big Rhett are out in the field, digging

and filling these big green trailers.

They bring it in to Jim and his fellow workers

and they pick out the rocks, grass, etc as the

potatoes come out of the trailer and up the

conveyor belt.

The conveyor belt telescopes right into the 53' trailer.

The potatoes are WAAAAAAAY up at the front of the trailer.

They will eventually fill the entire thing.

They usually fill 3-5 of them every day.

That is a LOT of potatoes!

And they've only done 2 of the total 7 fields.

It's a big process!

(There's my little white rental in the distance...)

Kyle is out there.

Somewhere.