View of the day-The last straight cutting in South Dakota this season...and perhaps the last in the US for the small grains.
We went out and did a sample just after lunch and it was 16.7% moisture...yeesh, not good at all. Even when we got them to take the weeds out it was still 14.8%. We went back to the camper to figure out what to do with the 30 acres of straight combining that was left.
Al went back to the elevator to see if he could sweet talk them into taking it...they said no problem as long as the farmer was okay with paying to have it dried. They wanted to get done as much as we did, so they said go for it...and we did. Al started and got the first load, then Marilyn took over to finish the field...and that was it...done straight cutting. Time to clean up the header.
Marilyn had to get back to the camper to Skype in to her theatre groups meeting so Al got to clean and load the straight header...no catastrophes. He got back to the camper and the meeting was still going on, so after cleaning up he was relegated to the upstairs TV.
The farmer has one more field to swath so we will have tomorrow off...sort of. We have to make an extra trip now that we have the pickup head and can't haul it on the combine like we used to, so we will take the straight header somewhere up the road so we don't have to come back all the way to Gettysburg to get it.
The big move is getting closer...
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