View of the day-Al cleans off the South Dakota chaff from the combine for the last time this year. It's official...after 54 days...4o of them in Gettysburg...we are done combining in South Dakota!
It was an early day for us, one of the farmers we cut for when we first got here came over to get settled up. After getting that out of the way, we went out for breakfast to the sale barn with them...we beat the church rush and were able to get in early enough for eggs...a nice change.
We went out to the field after 1pm to tackle the last of the swaths. Al started combining and Marilyn cleaned the pickup out, thinking that maybe there was an adapter for the backup camera that had fallen out of the box...no such luck...the pickup looks pretty good though.
When the cart was full, Marilyn took over combining and Al took the cart to top off the semi and General. He got back to combining while Marilyn worked on the grain cart lights. They hadn't been working for some time, or rather, when were plugged in they were on all the time, so we never plugged them in at all. She discovered the problem...although the plug looked like it was in good shape, the wires had all been pulled out inside the housing and were touching the live pin. Most of the set screws were gone too, so a new plug end is on the list...the light on the auger doesn't seem to be working...it has juice, but because the cart had grain in it, Marilyn couldn't get in to see if the problem was inside the cart. That will stay on the 'to do' list.
Al got finished up and brought the loaded General into town and Marilyn hooked up the shop trailer, picked him up and went back out to the hill where we had parked the combine. Al started blowing it off and Marilyn looked after shield replacement and more electrical, getting the new plug for the header installed. Once the dust settled, Al drove the combine back into Gettysburg and parked it by the General and we headed back to the camper for a much needed shower.
Tomorrow is swish time for the combine...and loading time for everything else.
Do we remember how, after such a long time...
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