View of the day-While moving, Marilyn passes a field of local combiners finishing up.
Another early start to get the last 20 acres of the field done. Once Marilyn got the header loaded on to the header trailer, she started the drive west to the last Oklahoma field for the '08 harvest.
After getting everything moved over and hooked up, it was time to start cutting and try not to get stuck. About two hours into the field, the head of the cutter bar broke which brought everything to a standstill until Al got the farmer to pick up the spare knife we had on hand that was back at the combine trailers. Once that was assembled and installed back in the header, it was back to cutting.
The sky was threatening to let go most of the afternoon and it even sprinkled a bit, but the bad stuff moved SW and left us to continue on. As darkness fell we knew we wouldn't be able to get finished tonight anyway and the straw was pretty tough so we called it a night around 9:30pm and went back to the camper after getting fuel for tomorrow.
Soon it will be clean up time...
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