August 9, 2011

View of the day-Al gets the General box up so we could fix the shock absorber that had blown a bolt.

We had about 30 acres left to do and we knew it wouldn't go until after lunch, so we went out and paid a few bills, then went to the Rock for lunch. We have been in town for three weeks and have gone to the Rock quite a bit...never early enough for the 10:30am egg cut off. Today we got there at 10:45 and the waitress asked us if we want breakfast or lunch...what?!? That's right, since they opened back up, the have offered breakfast ALL DAY...apparently we have never asked...just ass-umed. Lesson learned...AND we got eggs.

We had to do a quick fix on the General...there was a bolt that had come out of the bottom of the shock and it was dangling down. It didn't take long for the fix and once that was looked after, Al left with it for the field. Marilyn left at the same time with the pickup, but had to stop and hook up the high speed header transport at the other farm where the trailers were parked.

Al had one more load to take to the bins while Marilyn finished up the field with Casey, then it was time to load up. We got the header on the trailer and got the combine and header moved to the trailers, loaded the combine on the trailer, then went back to get the General and get it hooked up.

The A/C man was out at the tractor with the new hoses, but after getting the old hoses off and trying to get the new ones on, he discovered they had sent hoses with the wrong ends, so he had to put the old ones back on. So Al still has no A/C, but with the temperature alot cooler...56º as this blog goes up...he shouldn't need it.

Al called AIS for the move at 5pm and we were only 10 minutes late as we headed for Hazelton, where we would leave the rigs until tomorrow when we get there with the Freightliner, tractor and cart. Again, we had to go through all the detours and road construction, but we still made it before sunset, which was our goal and after parking at the Cenex, we headed back for Gettysburg, where we arrived around 10:45pm.

A long day of combining, loading and moving and tomorrow we do it again...minus the combining...