Putting the sickle to a ripe Sorghum bicolor harvest

Today is finally guinea corn harvest. And by now we all know that harvest day is always a joyful day.
There are three basic processes for guinea corn harvest.

• Cutting with Sickle

First we cut off the pallet head containing the seed and continue to stack them in one place until the cutting is done with.
To do this we often utilize sharp sickles or knives. While some people prefer working with knives, others prefer working with sickles.

This sickle my dad bought a year ago is still very useful for us. Daddy split the working tools, and we used some on the farm last year. He likes keeping away some of this tiny equipment for future use so that we don't end up losing everything from borrowing from friends.

• Beating with a stick or over drums.

While some people prefer to beat the sorghum over drums to bring out the seeds, others prefer to put them in a large sack and continue to beat the sack until the seeds all come out.

• The third process is the cleaning phase, where we blow the guinea corn over wind to remove the dirt and chaff present. In this phase, even the unripe sorghum will be blown off too. It's possible to have some unripe seeds due to a shortage of rain. The amount of rain often determines how well the seeds will ripen; the unripe seeds often turn black and are not good for any use.
  They are so bad that even animals don't eat them.

Unripe sorghum seeds that have already turned black and not good again.

The guinea corns are 4X taller than myself and even more for some others, we simply bend the strand to cut the heads. Whatever we are able to do today work continues.

It is either we cut everything down today and beat them tomorrow or cut a little today and beat them

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