View of the day-The last three blocks of a ten block line, that includes the side streets that feed the main line.
We went to Miss Dotties for breakfast, then drove out to Carmen to get the machines moved back to Cherokee. We took the slow moving vehicles...combine and tractor...in the first load, then the farmer gave us a ride back for the pickup and grain truck. Al took the truck to unload...not a long wait compared with later in the day.
Al started combining while Marilyn went to pick up lunch and parts for the pickup...yes, again...his time it was the switch for the A/C that had been ordered in. Once she was back in the field, she took over combining and Al went back to waiting in line. The first field was only 27 acres, so it didn't take long to finish and move over to the bigger field a few miles away.
This field was running around 50 bu/ac so that meant tie ups with the trucks again. Our farmer helped out by driving one of the trucks into the elevator, and once Marilyn had the combine and grain cart full, she went into town to get fuel for the combine. After fueling up the combine and getting half her windows washed, the farmer came back with the truck which gave her some more room.
Al finally made it back with his truck and took the full one back...they told him if he got in line before 10pm he would be able to dump...and he did. Marilyn filled the General, but since it was getting dark and the field was soft in places she couldn't see at night, she called it a day and went back into get another tank of fuel since the first one didn't fill the combine...double ouch.
It was a bit cooler today, only 87 and it actually cooled off later on. There had been a fire just two miles from the field we were working in...a slip clutch on a combine started on fire, which led to the field catching on fire...we'll get the rest of the story tomorrow on coffee row.
It's unbelievable the grain that is being hauled into the elevator. Today they took in 200,000 bushels...a really good normal day would have been 50,000.
Nobody's sitting around...
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