View of the day-Al waits on the road for Marilyn to pull out...we're finally on our way!Well, it was supposed to be AIS at 11am, but as usual the schedule got pushed back a bit with the last of the packing not quite getting finished the night before. And, as usual, it was a mad frenzy of chucking boxes of stuff in to get on the road...at least before lunch time.
After getting the camper hooked up to the truck and rearranging it so it was in the starting blocks to head out of the yard, we took the van into town to drop off several bags of donated items for the Women in Need drive that was currently being held. That really helped with the spring cleaning, although it didn't seem to lighten the camper load any...according to Al, at least.
Once we got back to the farm and made the last minute check to see that everything was turned off, we got rolling...as far as town anyway. Marilyn had to stop at Staples to say goodbye and pick up a few things, while Al forged on against a strong south wind...what's new. It wasn't as bad for him since he was pulling an empty combine trailer, but Marilyn might just as well have poured the diesel on the ground for the mileage she was getting pulling the camper.
We got to Carlyle and after unhooking the camper at Kim and Marg's place, we took a run over to Precision Ag where Marg works, to see if we could get the General and combine trailer weighed on the scale there. We stopped to talk to Kim while he was filling up his sprayer, then we got the measuring tape out at the scale to see if we could clear the poles that were lined up at either side of the scale. It looked like we would have a bit of room to spare, so we went back to the farm and Al brought the rig over and weighed it. He is concerned about hauling the new combine...at least, where we will have to position it on the trailer so we don't pi$$ off DOT and end up with an overweight fine. We will have time to do a bit of rearranging when we get to Great Bend, KS to load it, but now we know what the trailer weighs and we can go from there.
Once we got back to the farm, Marilyn started to get the camper in order...all those last minute boxes that got chucked in were crying for organization and there needed to be a revamp of the TV mount that we had so perfectly installed for the new TV. It worked like a charm...except that it was too wide and the slide-outs wouldn't close...so off it came for the trip down...and every trip here after. Maybe a bigger camper is the answer...
We got to move the new pickup head into Kim's barn, to wait out of the weather until we need it later on. It kind of amazing that the trailer doesn't tip over, the way the pickup part of the header just hangs over the support bar. Well, some good strong CaseIH ratchet straps are helping the cause and now that it is in the barn, we will deal with it when the pickup work starts.
So tomorrow we fight the wind again and may just run into some rain, if the forecast is correct and hopefully we make it to Gettysburg, SD before dark...and without event...
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