D7E, My dad says the beans look as good as they did last year, which the yields were 59.5 bu/acre on 38" rows(old equipment). I seen bean moisture go from 12.5 to 9.5 in a hot, windy day. I haven't seen your numbers before. Around Iowa, we usually can't start combining until 9:30-10:00 am on beans, but that gives you time in the mornings to take the loads you combined (the night before) to the grain elevator. The latest I think I have combined beans was 11:30 PM, moisture starts to set in and the stems get tough and you can hear it in the combine. (usually stop 10:30PM). Dad stops at 7-8 PM, but he gets up at 4-4:30 am to feed cattle. I'm the haul guy until 7-8 PM, then I combine until it gets tough/ or a breakdown, then fill the combine with fuel each night and put it in the shed, then get the tractor and put the 2-4 wagons loads in the shed for the night. I'm kinda second-shift you could say. Dad greases the combine each afternoon before daylight goes away. On beans, as the haul guy, I usually have some "dead time", were I work on other projects between loads. Wash tractor windows, weld sometime that is broke, repack wheel bearings on forage wagons, etc.
We're lucky, the grain elevator is only 2 miles away. I am told my great-granddad bought coal there for their stove years ago because that's were the railroad stopped. They chewwed tobacoo and talked about farming(that was the local hangout in the wintertime).
You definitely have a rougher harvest than we do, I guess you desire a beer or two.
