July 21, 2008

View of the day-The first "elevator" of the day. Al augers out his truck into the semi to make a load.

Al was up early unloading the trucks out at the field with the farmer. They had a bit of a holdup as the chain jumped off the head of the auger, so they had to pull it down to repair it...then the PTO shaft was stuck on the tractor and it had a live PTO, so they couldn't back it up to the auger without it whipping around. They eventually figured it out and the semi was able to take off to Kennebec with the load.

Marilyn got out to the field later, got the fueling and servicing done, then started in combining. We got that field finished then moved over to the last one for the farmer...a short hop across the fence. It still had a bit of green in it, but there was so much dry stuff that it blended off and was fit enough not to take a moisture penalty at the elevator.

After finishing the last field, we had to go back to the first field to clean up the wet crop that was patched out. We ended up filling the semi and had enough left over to put a short load on the General...Al was going to have to haul at least one load into Winner.

After getting the rigs moved back into Hamill, Al called the elevator and they told him they would wait for him to come in with his load. Marilyn had nothing left to combine, so she got to ride along to Winner.

Now, the elevator had three different places to dump...the east end of Winner, downtown and the west end. Since we came in on the east side, we went to the main office and sat in the first line. After waiting in line for a half hour, the lady comes out and sends us downtown where "there's no line up"...but she tells the guy behind us first, so by the time we got there we had another wait.

We finally got unloaded as Al watched as the corners were cleaned out of the box.

After a quick supper at McDonald's, we stopped to fuel up the General before heading home.

The weather was great today and it is looking good for tomorrow as well.

So we continue on...