View of the day-Al dumping "on the go" into the cart...a lot of different color machinery out there.
Another day just like the other day. Al went for breakfast on his own this morning, Marilyn had lunches to get ready before we headed out to the field.
The cart was full by the time we got out there so Al started combining and Marilyn attempted dumping the cart in to the General. A different tractor and grain cart made it a bit of a challenge...knobs in different spots that you only push halfway...not an easy job when you are in a panic. Al had to help tarp the load, but it was still smaller than the first one the farmer loaded on the General...live and learn...
Al was short 3 acres in getting his 100 acre day and Marilyn had a four load day. With two other semis running, it took a while to get a load. Although they were filling up pretty fast when the other Case combine made it back to the field after the full day of repair to the header...but it didn't last very long as the bearing went out on his chopper around 7:30pm. Al kept breaking guards on the header and they were the same two every time...and, of course they would be the ones that have the shorter arms on the top, so Marilyn had to run back to the farm to doctor up a couple of old ones with the cut off saw...the "new" ones didn't last much longer, so we will have to investigate further in the daylight.
We finished the patch around 9pm, then went back to the farm for supper, It was another beautiful fall day, combines going all around us...and moving down the road after dark with 36 ft heads on a two track trail...
Damn harvesters...
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