June 7, 2010

View of the day-Marilyn makes dust near the coal fired power plant by Oklaunion, TX.

It was another hot humid day, fortunately the rain was well to the north of us. We couldn't start right away due to the high humidity, but once we got going, the dust was flying...among other things.

We worked on some seed wheat that was going to go into that 700 bushel oil tank bin that was the view of the day. The entrance to the field was very narrow, so Al had to road the tractor and cart out to the intersection to load the semis...pretty precarious, but he managed to get them loaded and on their way. The farmer was having issues with his auger, so we filled the General then left enough on the field to top off the bin, then moved to the next field.

We were making good time on the next field since there was a truck to fill, but after he left we had a bit of a wait once the cart and combine were heaped. After filling the truck, we continued on and while making an extra lap around the field end to make some turning room for the combine, Marilyn noticed the straw being left behind the combine was a quite a bit heavy on the right side...it looked a lot different from the earlier rounds. The straw hadn't gotten any tougher, so when Marilyn turned around to cut back, she could see the problem...sitting right beside the fluffy bead of straw was one of the straw spreaders.

After stopping to inspect, she could see the shaft was still on the combine but the collar and the bolt that holds the cone and spreader on was gone. After loading the spreader onto the deck of the combine, she carried on...leaving a trail behind until we had the last semi filled.

Today we did exactly the same acres as yesterday...134, and there is light at the end of the tunnel. There should be...

We are the only ones left in the campground...again...