August 25, 2008

View of the day-Getting things polished up at the campground to head north...that's right...WE'RE DONE in South Dakota!!

Al took the second last load into the elevator, then went out to finish combining the little bit that was left out at the field. The farmers wanted another truckload of seed, but they hadn't unloaded what was on it from the other field, so Al filled the General first. They showed up with the truck and Al was able to fill it with seed and then call it a wrap.

He took the last load to the elevator then we went for lunch before starting the big cleanup. We took the shop out to the field to blow the chaff off the combine...we had a good strong SE wind which really helped a lot. Once it was cleaned off we went back to the campground and started washing everything.

Al took the clean General out to move the combine trailer over to where we had loaded the tractor yesterday and got it lined up and unhooked so we could load the combine. He came back to the camper just in time to help finish washing the combine...oh, joy.

After everything was shining, we drove the combine on the trailer and discovered that with the pickup header on, the feeder house didn't want to lift as high...not good. We had a couple of ramps that we were able to put under the tires so it would raise it enough to clear the fenders of the trailer...just clear. There will be some revamping done once we get back to our welderman at home.

Once it was all strapped down, we parked it behind the Cenex and came back to the camper to clean up our mess. Well actually, Marilyn cleaned up the mess while Al had a conference call for his Terrier hockey team board...very convenient.

Marilyn had set her gloves on the spreader of the combine while we were strapping things down and forgot to pick them up and while following Al back to the Cenex, saw one drop off onto the road. While Al was on the phone she went back to pick them up but it was only one...the other is still on the loose. Maybe it will match the one glove that has been in the cab of the combine forever...the lonely one that someone kicked the mate out the door a while back.

Either that or Marilyn will have two left gloves...