View of the day-The Hyde County Turbines we pass on the way to Gettysburg. There are 27, 1.5 megawatt turbines, each one is 213 ft tall to the centre of the blade hub. Each blade is more than 110 ft long! The tower diameter is 12 ft and each turbine weighs more than 190 tons. They don't look that big in the pictures, but they are huge when you get right up to them.
We got everything loaded and started on our way around 11am. It was nice to have the wind behind us...well behind and to the side, with a SE wind...it helped none the less. We stopped a couple of times to check the loads and made Gettysburg around 2pm.
Once Marilyn got to town, a check of the parking spot for the trailers was in order. Now, because we aren't on location for long periods of time...things change. Someone had cleaned up the lot and had two bin bases poured, so it looked like we were out of luck to park there this year. We parked behind the Cenex temporarily so we could find a new place for the rigs.
We went by the campground to see if our lot had been given to someone else and were pleasantly surprised to see that it was empty and our next lot neighbor was our old friend from Kansas that we had last seen in Frederick, Oklahoma. After having a half hour chin-wag with him, we were able to secure a new spot to park everything.
We went back to get the General/combine and the header to move over to the new spot, got it parked just as one of our farmers pulled up to let us know that if we needed a spot to park, we could have gone over to his bins. We decided to stay where we were for the time being...a large lot big enough to turn the rigs around without digging up too much turf.
We had a leisurely lunch...not by choice, but courtesy of a young unambitious waitress...well, she had enough energy to be constantly rolling her eyes every time a customer asked her for something...no tip there. After that we headed back to Hamill...via Winner.
We had to go into Winner to pay our fuel bill...not that it wasn't depressing enough to pay the big bill, but we noticed the .20/gal that it had gone down while we were here hadn't happened up north...still $4.79/gal. Good thing it's a short haul for us there.
Once we got back to Hamill, we stopped at the landlords to pay our camping tab, and collect for cutting...and ended up visiting for couple of hours...no sense in getting ready to move too early.
He told us checkout time was 7am...
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