August 11, 2010

View of the day-Al gets going on the second round of the rye while the swather sits and waits for more new parts.

The sun was shining and the heat was rising...a promising day for combining. We went up and got the tractor and cart from the north field and brought it over to the camper. We needed to rearrange the camera that was mounted on the auger of the cart so we could see into the grain truck box a bit better. Marilyn discovered it doesn't always pay to be so free with the zip ties when you are not sure where the best place to mount is...thank goodness for snippers.

We got the camera in just the right spot and Al took the rig out to the field and started combining. When he had a truck load, Marilyn came out and took over while he came to town to dump. When he came back to the field we decided to bring out the straight header so he went back to town with the pickup and brought it back, then took another load in.

The farmers had made a couple rounds in the rye with the swather then a bearing went in the pulley...back to town for more parts. There was only about an hour's worth of swathing left so we figured we could straight cut what was left and hopefully blend it off if it was too wet. Marilyn made the first round then picked Al up at the entrance on the main road, then he took over combining after dropping her off across from the pickup. After tarping the cart, Marilyn went into town to make supper at the camper and Al showed up once he had the General loaded with rye.

We had sun all day but there were clouds blowing up to the south of us, although we never did hear any weather warnings they sure looked ominous. Once again we have a 30% chance of rain for tomorrow, but we have our fingers crossed that it skirts around us if it shows up at all.

Got close to 100 acres today...