Okinawa, Japan c 1970: a tractor-mounted mechanical harvester is ready to load a tractor-hauled four wheel trailer with cane bin following alongside. The height of the leading topper suggests that the cane variety being harvested is fairly short. The bin looks to be narrower than an Australian bin, but the height suggests it likely has a 4-6 ton capacity.
Okinawa
Tom Eagles visited Okinawa circa 1970 during one of his tours in Vietnam. Tom was a Navy medic attached to the Marine Corps and is highly decorated for his service in the Vietnam war. He is still very active in the 7/8n2 narrow gauge hobby, and models Maine two foot.
Tom says that in finding this place he had no camera, but there was a small country store with a Kodak instant camera of the type they used to sell. He found a piece of lumber and used that for a tripod, so the photos are quite clear considering the poor equipment used to take them. The photos were scanned by Steve King and are used with permission.
- Goto: diesel (likely 4w DH #8) with rake of cane bins
- Goto: diesel (4w DH?) #8 with rake of full bins at mill
- Goto: tractor-mounted mechanical harvester and tractor-hauled bin
- Goto: tractor hauling empty bin on four wheel in-field trailer
- Goto: loading empty bin on tractor-hauled trailer
- Goto: dropping full bin from tractor-hauled trailer onto cane track
- Goto: empty tractor-hauled four wheel trailer for hauling bins in-field
- Goto: side view of tractor-hauled in-field bin loading from mechanical harvester
- Goto: tractor and bin
- Goto: chopped cane bin construction, bin number
- Goto: chopped cane bin construction
last updated: 17/12/09.