View of the day-Starting to clean the combine in our front yard, to get it ready to head north.
We had breakfast then went out to the field to take the header off the combine and put it on the long haul trailer. After some…’discussion’…we finally got it loaded to everyone’s satisfaction, then roaded the tractor, cart and combine back to Cherokee.
Ron…our Carmen farmer who doesn’t mind having his name in the blog…came in to get settled up and while Al took care of that in the cool of the camper, Marilyn got the compressor going and started cleaning off the combine. Ron, being an OSU fan, gave Al a nice orange and black hat to support his team…to bad the logo is from Northern Equipment…ahem…John Deere. Ron gave Al a ride back to the field to get the pickup and header that we had left there.
When Al got back to town, he cleaned off the header while Marilyn started washing the combine. Well, either the engineers at CaseIH finally listened to those of us who have to clean these things, or they hired someone who had to do the grunt work on a harvest run in his/her younger days. Wait a minute…if it was a ‘her’, all those little hidey-holes that collect crap would never have been there to start with.
Anyway, they did a fabulous job making the drain holes in the hopper big enough to get more than three kernels out at a time and the shields open up really wide so you can get underneath for a good cleaning. Some of the ledges that used to accumulate chaff and were hard to clean off were now gone and those back axles do not have all the little holes that you could never get the chaff out of. More good things than bad…so far.
The temperature today topped out at 102ยบ and the humidity was unbearable, but we kept struggling through it to get everything cleaned up. There was no way we were going to load up in the heat of the day, so after everything…including the ranch dressing off the side of the pickup…was shining, we took a supper break at Miss Dotties.
After supper we went directly to get everything loaded…first the combine to load, tie down and hook-up to the General, then the tractor and cart. We still have a bit of a time getting the combine loaded just right so the hydraulic cylinders on the feeder house don’t rub on the fenders. Marilyn came up with a game plan using some pool noodles as a wrap for the cylinders…we’ll see how they make the trip.
Al fuelled up the Freight before parking it our on the street near the header. The plan was to get the General’s load out there too, but there was another crew that had hogged up the spaces, so it will wait out at the parking lot until tomorrow…hopefully they leave before we do.
We had breakfast then went out to the field to take the header off the combine and put it on the long haul trailer. After some…’discussion’…we finally got it loaded to everyone’s satisfaction, then roaded the tractor, cart and combine back to Cherokee.
Ron…our Carmen farmer who doesn’t mind having his name in the blog…came in to get settled up and while Al took care of that in the cool of the camper, Marilyn got the compressor going and started cleaning off the combine. Ron, being an OSU fan, gave Al a nice orange and black hat to support his team…to bad the logo is from Northern Equipment…ahem…John Deere. Ron gave Al a ride back to the field to get the pickup and header that we had left there.
When Al got back to town, he cleaned off the header while Marilyn started washing the combine. Well, either the engineers at CaseIH finally listened to those of us who have to clean these things, or they hired someone who had to do the grunt work on a harvest run in his/her younger days. Wait a minute…if it was a ‘her’, all those little hidey-holes that collect crap would never have been there to start with.
Anyway, they did a fabulous job making the drain holes in the hopper big enough to get more than three kernels out at a time and the shields open up really wide so you can get underneath for a good cleaning. Some of the ledges that used to accumulate chaff and were hard to clean off were now gone and those back axles do not have all the little holes that you could never get the chaff out of. More good things than bad…so far.
The temperature today topped out at 102ยบ and the humidity was unbearable, but we kept struggling through it to get everything cleaned up. There was no way we were going to load up in the heat of the day, so after everything…including the ranch dressing off the side of the pickup…was shining, we took a supper break at Miss Dotties.
After supper we went directly to get everything loaded…first the combine to load, tie down and hook-up to the General, then the tractor and cart. We still have a bit of a time getting the combine loaded just right so the hydraulic cylinders on the feeder house don’t rub on the fenders. Marilyn came up with a game plan using some pool noodles as a wrap for the cylinders…we’ll see how they make the trip.
Al fuelled up the Freight before parking it our on the street near the header. The plan was to get the General’s load out there too, but there was another crew that had hogged up the spaces, so it will wait out at the parking lot until tomorrow…hopefully they leave before we do.
Which is going to be extra early, to beat the heat…
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