View of the day-The farmer in her Cat combine unloads into the cart...there was a lot of that going on today...we kept the buggy man busy.
Al was up early getting directions and organized for the day. It's later in the year now, so Marilyn thinks the 8am rule should be stretched a bit, especially if we can't get combining right away...staying up until 2am doesn't help either.
After getting the shop trailer hooked up we went out to the field to service the combine. The farmer had it fueled up and we just had to do a bit of adjusting on the pickup head. We tightened the new chain that had stretched a bit, and adjusted the slip clutch on the auger because it kept plugging off and on in the heavy swaths...just enough that a quick hit of the reverser would clean it out, but it still meant stopping, which cut into productivity.
We finished the field we had started yesterday and moved south down the highway to cross the creek to get to the next field. The dust was flying all afternoon and evening so by 9:30pm we had the quarter cleaned up and the rigs parked for the night. After showers and a quick catch up with the campground landlords we were ready to call it a night.
The weather today was perfect for combining and the forecast for tomorrow is more of the same, so once we move to the next field, there will be dust flying again.
We are hoping for another 100+ acre day like today...
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