June 14, 2011

View of the day-It’s that time again…cleaning for the move. Good thing there is a large front yard at our campground.

We got right down to business rounding up the equipment that was scattered around the countryside. Marilyn took Al out south to pick up the tractor and cart to bring them back to the trailers so we could load up. Marilyn went back to the camper and started blowing off the combine and header…not a fun job with a couple of rains packing down the chaff on the feederhouse.

When Al got back, he fuelled up the Freightliner then we loaded the pickup head on it’s trailer…we still hadn’t decided which trailer it was going to get pulled behind. With the header off the combine, we went out to John’s farm to get the MacDon head out of transport and loaded onto the high speed trailer for the long haul, then brought the header into town and parked in on the street for a quick getaway in the morning.

Back at the camper, Al had to replace another shock on the General before cleaning and fueling it up. We went over to the trailers and got the tractor and cart loaded and locked down, then hooked the header trailer up behind it and moved it onto the street. Unfortunately, we had light issues…even though we had everything working when it was hooked up to the pickup, but now we didn’t have brake lights. We worked on them for about an hour and discovered the trailer had some kind of messed up, hook up, so we gave up and put a new signal light on the General instead.

We went over and got the combine loaded and hooked up before calling it a day and heading to Pizza Hut to dine. Al wants AIS by 7am, so if Marilyn wants eggs she will have to see the sunrise to be ready. We will get one load up to the farm at Timken, then come right back to Cherokee.

We have to be back in time for the final hockey game of the Stanley Cup…