View of the day-The engines are running and ready to hit the road from Cherokee, OK. Just another day on the harvest run.
We tried to get away at the same time as yesterday but the fuel and food bills were not totalled so we could not leave until the bills were paid. Al looked after getting those looked after while Marilyn got the camper ready to hook up to go.
After we got everything paid and the camper hooked up to the shop trailer, we were ready to leave Cherokee for the last time this season. The trip up was uneventful…except that we have made a mental note to travel on Sundays from now on…the traffic was a bit hectic on a Monday. We got to Great Bend, KS and left the General and the shop trailer in a parking lot while we went to the campground to get set up for the week.
After getting the camper parked and cooling off, we went for lunch then hooked the shop trailer up and headed out to the bin site where the tractor and cart were parked. Al was a bit concerned about making the corner on the dirt road out to the bins, so Marilyn took a railway tie and spanned it over the culvert just in case he couldn’t cut the corner wide enough and the wheel dropped down…it didn’t. A nice bit of exercise hauling that big chunk of wood back and forth in the 90ยบ heat…at least there was no catastrophe.
We got to the bin site and unloaded the combine, serviced and did windows so it was ready to go. Ken, the farmer, was seeding Milo across the road from us and he took a water break to see how we were making out and to give us directions to the fi
rst field. We left the header on the combine trailer, which Al pulled out to the field with the pickup, and Marilyn moved the combine. It was about 6 miles to the field and once we had the header on the combine and got a big patch cut to park things in, Karen came out to give us a ride back to the bins for the tractor and General. Marilyn actually drove the General out to the field…Al was concerned she might like it so much that she would want to haul grain…she has offered, but then Al would have nothing to complain about.
The wheat was running over 50 bu/ac and it weighing almost 63 lbs…a real nice crop. Al hauled two loads to the Albert elevator, then took a couple loads of seed wheat to the yard to put in a couple of bins. It seems like the harvest has just started here but the Great Bend coop had brought in 460,000 bushels yesterday at all their elevators…the dust is flying everywhere.
So we drove 140 miles, got set up in Great Bend, unloaded and started combining, got 49 acres cut and made it 20 miles back to town before 11pm.
We tried to get away at the same time as yesterday but the fuel and food bills were not totalled so we could not leave until the bills were paid. Al looked after getting those looked after while Marilyn got the camper ready to hook up to go.
After we got everything paid and the camper hooked up to the shop trailer, we were ready to leave Cherokee for the last time this season. The trip up was uneventful…except that we have made a mental note to travel on Sundays from now on…the traffic was a bit hectic on a Monday. We got to Great Bend, KS and left the General and the shop trailer in a parking lot while we went to the campground to get set up for the week.
After getting the camper parked and cooling off, we went for lunch then hooked the shop trailer up and headed out to the bin site where the tractor and cart were parked. Al was a bit concerned about making the corner on the dirt road out to the bins, so Marilyn took a railway tie and spanned it over the culvert just in case he couldn’t cut the corner wide enough and the wheel dropped down…it didn’t. A nice bit of exercise hauling that big chunk of wood back and forth in the 90ยบ heat…at least there was no catastrophe.
We got to the bin site and unloaded the combine, serviced and did windows so it was ready to go. Ken, the farmer, was seeding Milo across the road from us and he took a water break to see how we were making out and to give us directions to the fi
rst field. We left the header on the combine trailer, which Al pulled out to the field with the pickup, and Marilyn moved the combine. It was about 6 miles to the field and once we had the header on the combine and got a big patch cut to park things in, Karen came out to give us a ride back to the bins for the tractor and General. Marilyn actually drove the General out to the field…Al was concerned she might like it so much that she would want to haul grain…she has offered, but then Al would have nothing to complain about.The wheat was running over 50 bu/ac and it weighing almost 63 lbs…a real nice crop. Al hauled two loads to the Albert elevator, then took a couple loads of seed wheat to the yard to put in a couple of bins. It seems like the harvest has just started here but the Great Bend coop had brought in 460,000 bushels yesterday at all their elevators…the dust is flying everywhere.
So we drove 140 miles, got set up in Great Bend, unloaded and started combining, got 49 acres cut and made it 20 miles back to town before 11pm.
Imagine what we can do when we don’t have to move…
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