View of the day-Our farmer is getting the swathing done just outside of Gettysburg, he's almost halfway with two down and three to go.
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Another day where the humidity refused to cooperate and hung around the 65% mark for most of the day. We knew it would be a late start...if it would go at all.
We took a test in around 3:30pm and since we only had about 30 acres and the elevator had enough room for 1000 bushels in the top of the wet bin, they told us to finish the field...which is just what we did.
Once Al took the last load into the elevator, Marilyn took the combine up to the pasture where the pickup head was parked on the trailer. After unloading the straight head on the ground, picking the pickup head off the trailer and putting it on the ground, then picking up the straight head again and lining up to load it on the trailer, Marilyn had to go pick Al up from the General in to
wn.
Once Al took the last load into the elevator, Marilyn took the combine up to the pasture where the pickup head was parked on the trailer. After unloading the straight head on the ground, picking the pickup head off the trailer and putting it on the ground, then picking up the straight head again and lining up to load it on the trailer, Marilyn had to go pick Al up from the General in to
wn. Back at the pasture, we got the header loaded and tied down, hooked the pickup head onto the combine, then Al greased the combine and lubed the chains on the header...now we're ready for action on the swaths.
Marilyn took the header on the trailer in to town to park it until she could get the pressure washer out to clean it up, since we won't need it again in Gettysburg. Al drove the combine in to the Cenex to fuel it up before taking it out to the next field where the General was parked where Marilyn picked him up. And that was then end of the day.
Tomorrow we tackle the swaths...
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