View of the day-Marilyn does do windows...and fuels...and greases...
The dust was flying before noon for a change...four minutes before noon...but before just the same. There was only 40 acres left on the last piece, so we were done in no time at all...relatively speaking.
It was interesting how all the volunteer corn stalks in the swaths was wreaking havoc with the unloading from the combine and the cart. The sugars in the stems were making it unload like it was 20% moisture...bridging and sticking in the hopper...we had to drive half the field to unload on the go, just to get empty.
Marilyn drove the combine back to town while Al unloaded the last truckload from the field, then met Marilyn at the next field. The farmer had just finished swathing it earlier in the afternoon, before heading over to the dreaded rye field which was right next to it. The farmer took us back to pick up the tractor/cart and pickup from down south and when we got back to the field, decided to call it a day and let the swatherman get ahead of us a bit...we would have just been waiting again for it to dry down.
Al claims that bad things come in threes, so he counted the roller on the pickup head as one...Marilyn called a broken link on a safety chain on the header as the third bad thing-just so it would be over with. The second bad thing follows...
Marilyn had stopped for fuel last night and as she was putting on her seat belt, heard a bang as she was driving away from the pumps. After checking things out, it looked like the hose had gotten caught on one of the duel tires in the back...nothing seemed to have gotten wrecked, so she drove home and thought no more of it. This morning, after filling the water jugs at the grocery store, the clerk was rolling them out on the cart and noticed the fender on the passenger side and said it looked like there was an "owwie"...yeah...apparently the bang was the running board sliding against the fuel pump guard...it cracked the "hip" fender along the bottom. Al was right all along...
Seat belts cause accidents...
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