June 9, 2010

View of the day-The cart is full and waiting for the semi to show up and the combine has the header hooked on behind for the trip back across the river to Oklahoma.

Al was up early to go dump the last 250bu of seed into the bin. The farmer came a picked him up and Marilyn went out to the combine on her own...just in time to have Al come over to help fuel the combine.

It was another day of waiting on trucks...we had a cart full from last night and it didn't take long for the combine to get full, so it was 'hurry up and wait'. We got the first truck full and ended up waiting on the second truck too...and we could see the end of the field was sooo close.

We finally got the combine empty and started to get it ready to move back to Davidson so we could load up. It was another scorcher out...more so because of the humidity...so we decided to just work on the header until the truck came back, then we could move the tractor and combine at the same time...getting the slow stuff out of the way.

This was the first attempt at pulling the header behind the combine...something that Marilyn has always thought would be a good idea to reduce the number of trips it takes to move between fields. She is still looking for the perfect tow bar for the pickup...other crews have them and they work...but Al says the pickup is too new to have a wreck. Maybe later on...

Once we had the cart empty, we started down the road...with no excitement...no short corners, no traffic jams...an uneventful drive back to Davidson. Once we got to the lot where the trailers were parked, the farmer picked us up to go back for the Dodge and the General. We got back to Davidson, fueled everything up, then went out to get the header loaded...another learning curve loading it on the trailer.

We decided to switch some tires around on the trailer since we hadn't had time to change the toe in which gave us the flat on the trip down. The other front tire was bad too, so we swapped it out with one of the back ones that still had tread left on it...just to get us to Cherokee where we would get it trimmed in properly...no really...this time for sure. We got them switched out in no time and after a bit of trailer shifting, were able to get the header loaded and strapped down...and quit for the day.

Al got to the watch the Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in overtime...an exciting game to end the season. Marilyn got her Skype working and chatted with a friend from back home...ahh, modern technology.

An early day of loading and moving tomorrow...