August 26, 2009

View of the day-The first field of pickup work with the water tower in the back ground...and what's missing? Clouds. A beautiful day and no rain in the long range forecast.

Al did a bit of dental work on the pickup head...he replaced some missing and broken pickup teeth, then came back to the camper to wait for 1pm when we would do our first test of the day.

We went out to the field and cleaned up a few of the swaths by the gate so we could get the truck and cart in. After cutting a test, Marilyn took it into the elevator while Al waited for "the word" that we would be able to go...it tested 13.3%...plenty good, so he was off to the races.

While Al combined, Marilyn hooked up the header trailer with the straight head and went back to the campground to clean it up. We're back down to 5 camper in the campground, so she was able to back into one of the parking stalls and put the pressure washer to it. Once it was all polished up, she turned the hose on the pickup...it had been desperately needing a wash for sometime. The only thing with a clean truck is that now you can see where someone backed into it in the mall parking lot.

Once Al had a truckload, Marilyn parked the trailer back where she found it and went out to take over combining while he went to the elevator...right across the fence from the field. One of the great things about cutting at Gettysburg is the close hauls...and apparently they told us at the elevator that we were the only custom crew left hauling there. After Al took the second load in he sent Marilyn back to do laundry and finished up the field.

Al got the combine moved over to the next field we have to do, Marilyn picked him up and headed home for supper. A very productive day and we actually had loads go in at 11.2% moisture!

What a difference a week makes...