May 3, 2010

View of the day-We must have picked a good machine because Machinery Link had about 40 CaseIH 7088 combines at the dealership in Great Bend, KS.

What an excellent day we had today...beautiful weather, good visits and made our destination of Grand Island, NE in the daylight.

We got to sleep in since we had no heavy schedule until Wednesday. We went down to the CaseIH dealership in Great Bend, KS to talk to the service manager about doing the Pre-Delivery Inspection on our new combine once they pick it up from Grand Island for us. After seeing the 7088's scattered throughout the lot, Al made the comment that they should have the process down to a science by the time they get to ours. Whether Machinery Link has switched over to CaseIH machines or has complemented their vast supply of green ones, we weren't able to find out...it looked impressive, though.

After we left the case dealer, we went for lunch then headed out to visit with our farmers. We had to pass by the site for the 3I Show that will be held May 5-7, of course we weren't going to be able to attend this year. Al decided to drive in to see if they would let us look around while they were setting up. This show is held out at the airport and the two runways are lined on both sides with all kinds of equipment...not all of it was there yet but they did let us drive around and see what was there.

We saw the latest drawing card for machinery link...a flashed up old combine...quite the restoration project. It would have been nice to get the rest of the story on it, but duty called...or at least our schedule called, so we forged on.

After having a good visit with Ken, Karen and Kevin, we continued on our trek to Grand Island. Al took some time out to move a couple of post rocks around...400 lbs of limestone fencepost...pretty powerful.

We stopped in Phillipsburg to have a visit with the Case dealer and see how things were progressing in that area, then carried on enjoying the scenery and great weather. We made it to Grand Island, checked into the hotel, then went out for a snack before calling it a night.

No driving tomorrow...nice change...