View of the day-At the end of the day, some farmers just leave them where they sit. Looks a bit strange not to see the hoppers empty and combines all lined up for easy servicing in the morning.
Up bright and early to get the truck unloaded, quite convenient that it was parked at the restaurant the night before. We went into Balcarres to get fuel for the combine and take the truck to the elevator, but we did squeeze in the breakfast special in at the Sunglow Esso.
While Al took the combine to the elevator, Marilyn fueled and serviced the combine and was able to get rolling by 10:30am…what a pleasant change that was. Al made it back to the field and took the full semi into the elevator, the second of six trips on that lovely road.
It was a pretty uneventful day, everything when according to plan and we managed to get finished the field before the sun went down. Al dropped the General off at the next field, about 4 miles SE and Marilyn went to pick him up to bring him back to the semi. We hooked up the header trailer to the pickup so we could take the straight header off the combine. With only one header trailer we had to put the other pickup header back on the combine to move it to the next field, so we wouldn’t have to back track when time came to go back to Balcarres with the combine.
Once we got the combine and header over to the new field, changed back the headers and cut a patch to park things, Marilyn took Al back to the other field for the semi. Al took over combining and it was quite a task starting a new field that we had never been on in the dark…that and the crop is almost laying flat, which creates a lot of dust and is pretty nasty to pick up…shut up and drive…
A productive day and hopefully we finish the field tomorrow…
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