August 21, 2010

View of the day- Al combining just over from the camper...three rounds before the end.

WOO HOO!! We are finally finished at Gettysburg. Al was up early to dump the truck and grain cart then he started right in combining...at 10am, if you could imagine! He was able to finish the field without having to haul anything to the elevator...it all fit into the General.

Al brought the combine over to where the Freightliner was parked and Marilyn met him there with the shop trailer to start cleaning up the combine and header. After we got the header on the trailer, Marilyn took Al over to the General so he could dump at the elevator then fuel it up. He got the combine trailer moved over to where the wheat pile had been so it was on level ground for loading, then Marilyn gave him a ride back to get the cart moved over by the Freightliner.

Marilyn got the chaff and dust all blown off the combine...of all the days we have had cool weather, we have to have a 95º day to do the cleaning...not nice. Once it was blown off Marilyn drove it over to the camper where the pressure washer was hooked up and waiting to do it's job. After getting it all washed and shined up, it was time to load. We took it over to the combine trailer and had it loaded in pretty good time considering we hadn't done it for five weeks.

After it was all hooked up and the wide load sign was hooked on upside down...that sign really needs a new paint job...we got the rear view camera installed in the combine...one load down. Then Al checked the tires on the trailer and one of the inside duals was flat...not like we didn't have a few weeks to check these things out. This is the second load going so we will be able to get it fixed at the tire shop on Monday.

We went back to the Freightliner and got the tractor and cart loaded and tied down...this went just as easy as the combine load, so we were pretty happy with that. We brought the pickup head on the trailer over to the camper to get washed up, then Al took the shop trailer over to see if he could air the tire up...no luck, the bead was off. That was that then, all loading done.

Al wants AIS at 8am...it's not going to be easy...