Finally sun..

Hi followers,

finally the spring arrived in Idaho. It’s heating up and the rain quit. Like you know, I am staying in Twin Falls right now. The first days I couldn’t demo because of rain and cold. Finally I ran my first demo 65 miles east of Twin Falls on last Sunday. The customer was chopping triticale for a 75.000 head feed lot. Here are some impressions…

Beside the chopping I did some sightseeing. Twin Falls is famous for the big waterfalls north of town. Here are some pictures of the falls, the Snake River and the canyon. If you have seen the DVD about the BiG Pack Roadshow “10.000 miles through the USA” from last year, you will recognize the bridge, where that crazy base-jumper jumped off. 

The last days I have been busy. Beginning of the week we have demoed two Krone machines to a customer. First we swathed with our 42 ft rotary rake Swadro 1400 and followed it with the BiG X 1100. The customer liked the nice swath of the Swadro compared to his wheel rake. He was impressed about the performance of the BiG X and very liked the possibility to switch to EcoMode, when the full power is not needed. Here are some pictures of the demo. The sun is fighting with the clouds.

On Thursday I had some of the heaviest swath during my time in Idaho in front of my PickUp. I was chopping alfalfa hay and they were merging 80 ft together. But no problem for the BiG X 1100: With 9 miles an hour, I was filling the trucks in less than three minutes. The customer and especially the truck drivers were impressed: “I have never chopped in 5^th gear. That chopper is hauling ass!” When you see the last pictures, you understand why it is dusty already again. Pure sand!

For the next days, we have some demos lined up around Twin Falls. I will stay here till Wednesday, before I move back to Reno and the first round of the “Meet the BiG MAN-Tour” is finished. Then we are getting ready for corn. More about that in a few days.

Regards from Twin Falls,ID

Benedikt