View of the day-Al and Grant check out the wheat swaths to see if they would be dry enough to pick up.
We had a couple of little sprinkles during the night, but not enough to wet the bottom of the rain gauge. Al called over to Kisbey to see if there was a chance that the wheat might be ready to go and the farmer figured it would, so a road trip was on the agenda for the day.
Al drove the General over to the farm, about 20 miles, Marilyn followed in the Dodge...which was now working fine. Once we got to the field, Al and Dale looked things over and decided we should try it, so back to Carlyle we went to get the combine and header.
Al had cleaned the combine off when we finished the barley since we would be combining organic wheat at Kisbey. We put the straight header into transport and hooked it behind the Dodge, then put the pickup head on the combine and started back to Kisbey...a lot slower trip this time.
The farmer had started swathing the field until the knife broke on his swather, so he had us pick up the outside round first, then switch over to the straight header to finish off the standing wheat. It was testing around 14.5% moisture, but Al was dumping into an air bin and he was able to go to 15% moisture...fortunately the loads never got that high.
We finished the straight stuff just as the sun was going down, so the straw was getting pretty tough, but we chewed through it. Al unloaded the truck at the yard before we headed back to Carlyle.
The next few days have rain in the forecast...we can only hope it is the usual 'weekend' forecast and is totally wrong.
But the radar is not looking to promising...
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