June 22, 2010

View of the day-The view from the top of the combine as Al comes flying across the field with the cart.

We were up early…Marilyn to get the lunch ready and Al to go find a new shock for the General. Al had no luck with finding a shock, but they ordered one in and it should be here tomorrow. We hit McDonalds for breakfast to go and headed out of town.

We got out to the field, got the combine serviced and were cutting by 10:30. We finished the first part of the field we were on, then moved across the water way to get the last 30 acres. Al had to spot the cart and drive back and forth with the Dodge to dump the cart loads and with the field running about 52 bu/ac, he was running lots.

We finished the field, got the header into transport, then moved to the next field. Al pulled the header with the pickup and Marilyn moved the combine, just as they got the header put on the combine, Kevin showed up and helped put everything back in place before giving us a ride back to get the General and grain cart. Al took the last load from that field in to the elevator and Marilyn drove the tractor and cart over to the next field and started combining.

Once again the temperatures were over 100º and there was a strong south wind…but at least the humidity was down to a tolerable level. Machines we going all over the place and Al had to contend with line-ups at the elevator…fortunately they were able to dump fairly quickly and there was only once that Marilyn had to wait.

To the north of us, there were weather warnings…tornado, flood, hail…but they must not have been getting too much because there was nothing on the weather band…although the sky didn’t look very good. Marilyn did get 45 drops of rain on the window, but that dried almost instantly.

Al finished dumping the last load of the day at the elevator, then fuelled up the General before coming back to the field to park for the night. Marilyn decided it was time to quit when she had combined down to the terraces that has small ponds in them…not something she wanted to contend with in the dark. After shutting down the combine, Marilyn went out to fuel it up and wouldn’t you know…the wind had died down and the dang mosquitoes were feasting…the little buggers.

Five acres short of 100 for the day, but with all the terraces, productivity goes down with all the turning and small strips to pick up.

Still a good day even with the move…