July 28

View of the day-Wheat getting swathed so we can maybe combine tomorrow.

We started out getting ready to make part of a move to Sterling. While Al fueled the Freightliner, Marilyn went to the last rye field to get the straight header trailer and drop it off by the combine. Once back at the trailers, we got the tractor and grain cart loaded on the trailer and hooked up to the truck.

We went over to the combine to take off the straight head and load it on the trailer, since we wouldn't be needing it here anymore. Once everything was chained and strapped down, we headed off for point north.

There were a few crews moving north as we travelled along US 83 up to Sterling, ND. It was only 140 miles, which meant we could leave later and make it back home during daylight. It looked like there had been big winds hit some of the fields as the crop was leaning over at about 45 degrees. It seemed strange that it didn't break it over completely, just made it look like Mother Nature had used some gel to give it a funky hairdo. It actually looked dry in some places.

There was the odd field being combined closer to Sterling(which is 25 miles east of Bismarck on I94), but there were a lot more combines on trailers in the parking lot. We had to get harvesting permits for ND, so we got a trooper to meet us at the truck stop and got what we needed. After parking everything next to all the other crews lined up, we headed back to Gettysburg.

We made it back around 7:30pm and driving past the field where the combine was, we could see it was completely swathed.

Maybe tomorrow it will go...