View of the day-The combine sits at the bottom of a pile of terraces...tomorrow will be a long and winding road.We were rolling early again today and it was more of the same...a perfect harvesting day, no line-ups and no breakdowns...on the combine at least.
We've been having trouble with the fuel pump in the slip tank on the back of the pick-up. When we bought the new pump last year, we had to have a gender changing collar put on it to use it in the fitting that was on the tank, this made the pump stick up about a foot high. Because the pump was top heavy and the truck has travelled over some rough roads, the weld on the tank was getting cracked and the fuel would leak out when it was full. Marilyn was going to give it the quick fix with some quick steel, just to tide us over, but Al wanted to get it welded...which was the best choice but, when would we get to a welder? We left it long enough that tonight it completely broke the weld and nothing was holding it in, so we dismantled it and tomorrow we visit the local welder. And, oh boy, were the mosquitoes bad!s
We are working on another field that is going around the 50 bu/ac mark and it has a lot of terraces on it which makes for a lot of turning around, which in turn cuts back on productivity. It is the last field we have and we will probably get it done tomorrow and be finished here.
Unless we find some more work...
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