View of the day-Eliminating a few steps by just dumping from the combine onto the ground in the field. There is a shortage of bin space so the next two fields will be dumped here...doesn't look big now, but wait a couple days.
We started out the day by moving the combine over to the new field, just to cut a patch, thinking it wouldn't be dry enough to start...lots of dew on the grass. But as a former customer told us in the past..."you're not cutting the effin grass"...so we were pleasantly surprised when it was dry enough to start. Well, dry enough to put in the pile we were starting, at least.
Once we had gotten everything else but the van moved over to the field, Al started combining and Marilyn went back to throw lunch together before combine back to take over. It was cold, sunny and really windy...REALLY windy, which made things interesting after the sun went down. There was so much chaff blowing around that whenever the combine turned to go west, Marilyn had to stop and wait for the dust to get blown away before moving...too many power poles, augers and sloughs to be driving blind.
After we finished the south third of the field, Al moved the cart and General out to the other side of the field, then we both went back to the first field to get the van so Marilyn could go back to the camper and Al could finish filling the cart and truck before calling it a day.
And it was a damn fine day...combining wise, anyway...
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