June 30

View of the day-Last sunset for Kansas wheat.

Well, the day started out with good intentions. It was foggy, with the usual high humidity and low temps so we didn't lose any combing to the repair day. Not a good day for combining, but we did see one combine going later in the day.

We went to the Case dealer to get the part we needed, we even had the part number off of our parts CD. After getting the part, we headed to the field and commenced dismantling the broken part, which required removing some very heavyparts. The working area isn't really " Kuntz" size, so that was working against us as well. We got everything off and grabbed the new part of the back of the pickup and wouldn't you know it...it was the wrong part. It wouldn't have been so bad except we had gotten our farmer to add some re-enforcing welds on the new one, to the same area that had broken on the old one.

Marilyn called in and they had the right part, so off to Great Bend for the switch. The parts man was quite accommodating, exchanged the parts, and even though the new piece was a heavier duty one than the first one, it was $20 cheaper! How often does that happen? With the extra welds added again...just in case... it was back to the field, where Al had everything removed and ready for the new part.

So, a five hour repair turned into an eight hour repair, but we got it done and hopefully it will last for a while. We took the header off and moved 15 miles south and cut a patch to park the rest of the equipment, then called it a day. Al got to catch up on some TV while Marilyn went and did laundry...again.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a dusty one...