View of the day-Kim starting in on the flax...ohhh, it started out so good today... It was another great day for harvesting, we were ready to start by noon and after doing a test to find out the moisture was 10%, it was go time.
Al made the first couple of rounds while Marilyn went to town for groceries, then she took over. It was going great until she plugged the feeder house. After reversing the wad out, she kicked the front end in to start combining again and since flax tends to bind together, especially after having the feeder chain mash it together, the wad was too much for the rotor...yep, plugged the rotor.
Al was just leaving the field when he saw the smoke coming off the rotor belt, so he turned around and came back...with similar smoke coming out of his ears. It was plugged at the back of the rotor and we had to take the grates out, something we have only had to do once before...a long, long time ago. It took about an hour and we had it back together, then Marilyn went back to combining...being a LOT more cautious.
Kim was having his own problems as the flax kept wrapping on the beater, then the feeder would quit. He struggled for an hour or so, then took the combine to the shop to change out the clutch pads on the feeder house. Bob didn't even bring the 9600 out because we were dropping the flax straw and the wind was so strong that it would have just blown his straw all over the field. The red machines chopped it up so the wind didn't have a lot to blow around.
Marilyn kept on combining until just after dark, then she started having the same trouble Kim was having so that was it for the flax today. Back at the shop, we helped Kim and Gordie get the clutches changed and that was it for the day.
Let's hope tomorrow goes a bit better for both machines...
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