June 10, 2011

View of the day-This poor spider had his work cut out as it made its web while Marilyn was combining. The wind never broke the web, even though it was spanning 3ft between the mirror bar and the hand rail. The bonus for the spider was that the lights were attracting all kinds of flying insects that didn’t have a chance.

We got to sleep in a bit because of the rain shower from last night. We did a bit of surfing at the library…Al had to get caught up with the blog since he had not read it for a few days. We had lunch and after that Marilyn headed out service and do a sample.

Al had the General in town from the night before so he had his own wheels and waited to hear from Marilyn if the canola was dry. He got the call that it was good to go so he headed out to the field. It had finally cooled down a bit…if you can call 90º cooler. Things were going good until Al got a call from Marilyn on the radio that she had no hydraulics…and she had to be in the farthest corner of the field.

Well after looking things over Marilyn found that a rod that holds the tightener pulley on the hydraulic pump had broken and the belt that runs the pump had jumped off the pulley. A quick call to the CaseIH dealer in Fairview only to find out they don’t have one. The ProHarvest truck in Pratt, KS did, but that was 90 miles away. We made a quick call to Butch back at Butler Welding and after a trip into Cherokee, he got us fixed up and going in no time.

After that, things were pretty uneventful…Al hauled in a few more loads to Dacoma and he took the General with the last load of the night in to the camper to catch the last few minutes of the hockey game.

Meanwhile, Marilyn finished the field and dumped the remaining canola in the cart for Al to haul in tomorrow. We will have to move about 25 milesto our last field of canola and if the rain holds off we just might finish it.

And the weekend is here again…