June 4, 2008

View of the day-Al moving the grain cart across the Red River into Texas.

Well, it wasn't such an early start to the day, combining-wise. We had trucks to unload and a 20 mile move to the new field, and it took three trips. Fortunately only one had the slow moving vehicles.

Al took the General over first and came back with the farmer, then the combine got serviced and the header went on the trailer...too far to move with it on and there are a couple of narrow bridges...and one wide busy one. Once the slow stuff was moved, we came back and Marilyn took the pickup and shop, while Al went on a mission to find a place to unload the Freight.

On the way over Marilyn had a call from CNH tech support regarding the yield monitor. The ProHarvest specialist couldn't come up with an answer, so he sent it higher up. There was a lot of head scratching going on, but the tech came through about four hours later with the answer...and now Marilyn can tell Al what the averages are at the touch of a...screen button.

We also had the ProHarvest vets hi-jack us as we were passing through Oklaunion on our way to the field. Cam and Ed had a look at the feeder chain that had been rattling so much in the first few fields we were in. They still get around pretty good, and they left us with a few answers to our questions.

Considering we didn't start combining until 1pm, Marilyn still managed to get 120 acres done. Al took a load into Vernon, but it was too busy, so he started hauling east to Harrold. He had to leave the General loaded at the elevator in Harrold, and was going to wait an hour for Marilyn to finish filling the grain cart. He was happy when someone from Davidson that was at the elevator offered to give him a ride home before midnight.

Leaving Marilyn to tarp the cart and grain truck in the 40 mph wind...