View of the day-No time to wait for a load as the combine dumps on the cart as it is dumping in the General.
Another early morning as Al went to get his tire fixed, only to find out the rim was cracked and he needed a new one. Once he got back to the camper, we hit McDonalds for one of their fine breakfast meals, then Al took the General out to the next field and we went back to service the combine.
We had to take the header off to move the three miles to the next field…the roads had been narrowed quite a bit by the grader over the years which left some high curbs…the combine might have even been a snug fit. We took the scenic route around the block to miss the mile of bad road, then loaded the header back on and drove in the other two miles…in second gear…it was rough.
Marilyn opened up a spot to park, gave Al a ride back for the tractor and cart then started combining. She wanted to make a round around the field to set the border and after cutting a couple of short cuts in the field for Al to run the cart down, she started on the last two short sides. After clearing the top of a terrace, she started down the other side and apparently put the header down a bit too far, which resulted in a bit of landscaping…the header was now full of dirt.
She shut the machine off, put on the gloves and proceeded to clean the dirt off. It had shaved off the top layer so nicely that the wheat stalks were still in nice little rows along most of the header. After twenty minutes of pulling and scraping, it was ready to go, so she started back in combining. That lasted for about 30 feet until the feeder plugged…or so she thought. Out of the combine again, this time to pull straw…and it was jammed pretty tight.
Al called on the radio and got the news of Marilyn’s predicament , so out to the combine he came with the pickup. It seemed the problem was a bit further back than the header…the feeder h
ouse was plugged...time to take the header off and start pulling straw…good thing it wasn’t hot out…only the mid 80’s. It didn’t take long and with a bit of team work, we got everything out, the header back on and we only lost an hour.
The rest of the day ran a lot better, Al was able to haul with the General and the semi, so there weren’t any holdups for the combine. Marilyn had another rider for a couple of hoppers when Ken came out to check out the new combine and tell her how much Al would like a new semi of his own…
We wouldn’t have had enough room for grain to finish the field tonight, so we shut it down just after 10pm, fuelled the combine, then headed for Great Bend.
Another early morning as Al went to get his tire fixed, only to find out the rim was cracked and he needed a new one. Once he got back to the camper, we hit McDonalds for one of their fine breakfast meals, then Al took the General out to the next field and we went back to service the combine.
We had to take the header off to move the three miles to the next field…the roads had been narrowed quite a bit by the grader over the years which left some high curbs…the combine might have even been a snug fit. We took the scenic route around the block to miss the mile of bad road, then loaded the header back on and drove in the other two miles…in second gear…it was rough.
Marilyn opened up a spot to park, gave Al a ride back for the tractor and cart then started combining. She wanted to make a round around the field to set the border and after cutting a couple of short cuts in the field for Al to run the cart down, she started on the last two short sides. After clearing the top of a terrace, she started down the other side and apparently put the header down a bit too far, which resulted in a bit of landscaping…the header was now full of dirt.
She shut the machine off, put on the gloves and proceeded to clean the dirt off. It had shaved off the top layer so nicely that the wheat stalks were still in nice little rows along most of the header. After twenty minutes of pulling and scraping, it was ready to go, so she started back in combining. That lasted for about 30 feet until the feeder plugged…or so she thought. Out of the combine again, this time to pull straw…and it was jammed pretty tight.
Al called on the radio and got the news of Marilyn’s predicament , so out to the combine he came with the pickup. It seemed the problem was a bit further back than the header…the feeder h
ouse was plugged...time to take the header off and start pulling straw…good thing it wasn’t hot out…only the mid 80’s. It didn’t take long and with a bit of team work, we got everything out, the header back on and we only lost an hour.The rest of the day ran a lot better, Al was able to haul with the General and the semi, so there weren’t any holdups for the combine. Marilyn had another rider for a couple of hoppers when Ken came out to check out the new combine and tell her how much Al would like a new semi of his own…
We wouldn’t have had enough room for grain to finish the field tonight, so we shut it down just after 10pm, fuelled the combine, then headed for Great Bend.
Tomorrow the furnace is supposed to be back on…
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