September 10, 2011

View of the day-Al unloading the General at the bin site…nice to be able to dump the trucks and not have to be moving the auger all the time. A 37,000 bushel bin helps…a lot.

We were up early and Al was out visiting with our campground neighbors, when he noticed there was water dripping off the frame onto one of the front legs of the camper. Upon further inspection, we could see it was coming out of the fill tube for the fresh water tank…apparently, the pressure was so good here that it was sending the water back through the water pump and into the tank. As the water was dripping down, it would run in behind one of the handles and end up on the ‘basement’ floor…so we began the mopping up process and those Shamwows really work as advertised…they soak up a lot of water.

We left the cargo doors open so it could dry out during the day, then headed out to the field. Al had to pick up the General from the bin site while Marilyn fueled and serviced the combine. We had to move a couple of miles to the next field, but after we got moved, we started making dust…well, not a lot to start with, but at least we were cutting.

We had a pretty good day and the truckers managed to keep up even though they had to deal with the weekend traffic that was a steady stream along the highway we were combining next to. It was another perfect harvesting day and we even had some wind to keep the dust away from the trucks as they were unloading at the bins.

Once the sun went down, we lost our wind and it was a good thing we finished this part of the field, because the straw was getting mighty tough. We had a ‘safety meeting’ under the almost full moon…the evening was just as nice as the day had been, although we could have done without the dampness and mosquitoes.

After the meeting, we went into town to fill the slip tank with diesel for tomorrow, then went back to the camper for the night.

More itchy barley tomorrow…