April 25, 2010

View of the day-What we use our front lawn for.

Things are starting to happen now! Al went to get the grain cart home last Thursday so we could get it cleaned up, hooked up to the tractor and loaded for the first trip south this coming week. Of course, most of that will happen today...if it doesn't rain.

Yesterday's plan was to go to Carlyle with the new header, but first we had to pick it up from the dealer. Since we purchased it from the AGCO dealership in Whitewood (halfway between Yorkton and Carlyle), and he did not have any combines on his lot to put the header on the trailer, he had to resort to plan B. He was able to get a farmer with an CaseIH 8010 to pull the old switcheroo and get it ready for us to strap down and hit the road.

Tyler Nagy, the young farmer that was able to help us out, had actually worked for us one season on the harvest run...until the end of the season, no less. After a gab session, we went for lunch with Glen from White's Ag, then started the drive to Carlyle.

We were a bit concerned with the lights on the trailer...a case of having some wires crossed. As usual, once we got to Carlyle, Marilyn and Marg got the test lights out and did a bit of rearranging and were able to get all the lights working as they should be...and even got the brakes on the trailer working. At least that rig is ready to roll. Once it was parked and we had supper we headed back home to Yorkton.

Now to commence cleaning and loading...