View of the day-Al cuts a sample of the rye north of Gettysburg...15.5% moisture and it has to be 13% before the elevator will take it.
Al was up early to dump the 'load' of wheat that was on the General...all 43 bushels of samples we had taken on the winter wheat. After that he went over to the welding shop to see if they would be able to fix the crack that was on the cart trailer. It is on the welder man's to do list, and since we will likely be here for a while, there is no rush.
We went for lunch at the Rock and Dan from MacDon support had come in for lunch so he joined us and we filled him in on some of the issues we had with the header. He told us to call in to the support van and they would pencil him in, that way he would try to stop in on his way back from the job he was on his way to.
After lunch we went back to the camper and Al checked out the toys that had been delivered this morning...he had ordered ? and one of them was a randomly inserted model with 'White' on the grill instead of 'MM'...quite a bonus. Marilyn did some laundry in the campground and we killed some time online while we waited to go out to the field to do a test.
It was in the 90's today but the humidity never got under 52%, so it was not a good drying day and we were pretty sure the rye wouldn't be dry enough...but we could hope. We went out to the field and while Al put a new bungee cord on the General rollover tarp, Marilyn gave the combine windows a RainX treatment...more time killing hoping that the rye would be dry. Finally we did a test and just as we were leaving the field with it we got a call from 'Stan', the MacDon support guy. He was in town waiting for us to show him the way back out to the combine and header...which we did.
He checked a few things over and made notes to take back to the van with him, gave a few more pointers, then he was on his way back to Pierre. It was VFW time by this time so we went for supper then went back to the camper for the night.
Tomorrow is road trip day, we are going to Carlyle to get the pickup head so it will be an early start.
That should be a shock to the system...
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