June 27

View of the day-Changing of the "guards" on the header.

Another cloudy day, this time we never did see the sun shine. Al took the part off the wobble box to get the broken bolt stubs removed at a local machine shop. When he went in with it, he told the guy that he had the tools to try to take them out himself, but thought he should leave it to the "professional. The guy replied "That's a nice change. Normally these kind of things come in after the farmer has tried to do it himself and it's a real mess". He had it done in no time. After picking up the guards to fix the header, we had a quick lunch and headed out to the field.

While we were changing the guards, we could see a big cloud dumping just to the SW of us, then one to the SE, then the NE. We seemed to be surrounded, but nothing of any amount hit us, just the occasional sprinkle, but at times the elevator to the S of us disappeared in the mist. We kept going, and had a visit from Jeff, the mechanic from Straubs(the Case IH dealer), to check out the oil leak that we had repaired on Sunday. We discovered a gasket had blown, causing the leak, and since they hadn't started it when it was on the trailer at the shop, they couldn't check it under pressure. He had to go back to town to get the gasket, and we stayed back to take off one of the big side panels off the combine so he could remove part of the pump.

It sprinkled on us while we finished putting the wobble box back on, put on a new chain on the header and lubed up a sticky PTO shaft. Marilyn cleaned up the shop trailer and we headed into town to call it a day. Once back at the camper, we got the dish aimed, so we would have at least some TV to watch...no internet in the comfort of our home at this stop. Once Al was happy with the dish remote in hand, Marilyn was free to get some much needed exercise, doing laps around the WalMart Supercentre (24 hours...mmmmm).

The rig is ready to roll tomorrow...