June 15, 2010

View of the day-At least somebody is combining today, the John Deere was making dust in the canola…but nobody else turned a wheel.

Got to sleep in again because we knew there would be no cutting, but we decided to get some more work done out at the combine. We went to the sale barn café for lunch, got our parts and left for Carmen. It was a sunny day but there was no wind to speak of and the humidity made working outside really uncomfortable…but we had to do something constructive.

The first plan of attack was to put the new knife for the header together, then store it in the handy compartment built in to the header for just that purpose. Hopefully we won’t need it for a long time, but…just in case. We unwrapped the three parts that we had brought with us, only to realize…we were short one piece. The guys at Yorkton shorted us one 8 ft knife piece and two connectors so there was no way it was going to get put together. Time to call Fairview to see if they had one in stock…no luck, not even in the ProHarvest truck…what the hell?? Good thing the neighbours over at Livingston Machinery where the MacDon van was parked were able to help us out.

We got back to the combine and after changing the oil filter on the header, continued putting the knife together and got it put into the holder. Jobs done for the day. On the way back to town, we saw a JD combine in the canola, it still looked a little wet in the field by the road but he was actually making dust.

When we got back to Cherokee, Al dropped Marilyn off at the camper and went out to the lot where the trailers were parked. There were a couple of new John Deere combines with the headers hooked on behind that belonged to a harvester from Montana. They had picked them at Enid and they were going to road them through the harvest…all the way back to Montana! Trailers are too expensive, so they decided to roll that way…it has been done before.

After our landlord, Mike, did some touch up welding on one of the trailers, Al came back to the camper and called it a day…somewhat constructive.

And now, to the library to get connected…