View of the day-Al making a last pass in Kim's combine on the barley at Carlyle...thank goodness that itchy stuff is done.
Al got the General unloaded first thing, then went into town to pick up a fuel filter for it. On the way home last night, he couldn't get any power in the high range, so he thought that might fix it...no such luck. Then he thought it might be the air filter, but before he could check it out he had to go with Kim to set the trucks and cart for the rest of the combining.
After talking to the mechanic at the truck shop, he decided to just take it in to the pros and let them figure it out. They called later in the day to let him know the exhaust manifold gaskets were shot and needed to be replaced. We had it in the shop before we left in June to fix a noisy leak and ended up with a new turbo...and still had the leak...so bad that Marilyn could even hear the leak when Al talked on the two-way radio. If that is not the problem, we will at least get the leak fixed. Let's hope that is all it is.
Marilyn got out to the field and started combining, then Al took over in Kim's combine and we went to town on the last 75 acres of barley. It didn't take very long to lap that up last bit, even though it was going over 80 bu/ac.
Once we got that finished we moved everything back to the farm to blow the barley dust off of the rigs, then changed to the pickup head, changed settings to canola, then moved across the road to pickup a semi load for Kim's dad. After fueling up and having some burgers that Kim's mom had made for the crew, we headed back to the yard.
Back at the yard we put the straight head back on to go into Kim's wheat. Since they didn't need a trucker and the cart was left on the barley field to be used on the canola field next to it, Marilyn got to use the shower first.
The keyboard on the laptop hadn't even got warm and Al was calling Marilyn to come out to the field to pick them up...they were calling it quits for the night. A busy day with lots of moving...
Another perfect harvest day minus the humidity...
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