View of the day-The Masseys are dumping into the cart…Blaine was kept busy roading the cart back to the bins a couple of miles away.
Al was up early and off to find the bearing for the sprocket…he got to the John Deere dealer too early, so he went for coffee at the Esso and Blaine was there, so he stopped for a chat until the store opened. They had the bearing, so he came back to the camper to press the bearing into the sprocket, then went out to the combine and put it back together, including the new drive chain.
We were moving from picking up canola over to straight cutting some wheat, so we drove the 10 miles or so to the field, dropped the pickup head on the ground, then hooked up the straight header that Al had brought over from the other field. We managed to combine a couple of loads, but it was 18% moisture, so we had to shut it down and move back over to the canola.
Al took the last load into the elevator while Marilyn switched out the headers…she ran into a bit of trouble with that. The feeder on the combine had to go to such a steep angle to hook the header, that there was no lip on it to pick it up…every time Marilyn tried to lift it, it just slipped off and back to the ground. She went over to the pickup to get a couple of blocks to try and get it just a bit higher…she was sure it wouldn’t take much. That didn’t work, so she thought blocking the pickup wheels would keep it from scooting ahead and allow her to reduce the angle…no luck there either…the pickup is meant to walk over obstacles like that. In the end, she is not sure how she managed to get it picked up…just held her tongue right, she figures…but finally it was on and hooked up just as Al got back
from the elevator. We were on the move again.
Marilyn got right into combining in the canola and Al worked at the bins for a couple of loads before going back to the camper to shower and head to Yorkton for the hockey game… it was the Terriers home opener and he has season tickets. Marilyn stayed to combine…she will need Monday night off for a meeting in Yorkton.
It started to get really tough around 8:30pm so we all quit combining and went home for the night. There was lightning starting to light up the sky…kind of strange for this time of the year, although it is only September. There was rain to the east and south of us, but once again it missed us during the day, even though the clouds were threatening.
Tomorrow could be a different story…
Al was up early and off to find the bearing for the sprocket…he got to the John Deere dealer too early, so he went for coffee at the Esso and Blaine was there, so he stopped for a chat until the store opened. They had the bearing, so he came back to the camper to press the bearing into the sprocket, then went out to the combine and put it back together, including the new drive chain.
We were moving from picking up canola over to straight cutting some wheat, so we drove the 10 miles or so to the field, dropped the pickup head on the ground, then hooked up the straight header that Al had brought over from the other field. We managed to combine a couple of loads, but it was 18% moisture, so we had to shut it down and move back over to the canola.
Al took the last load into the elevator while Marilyn switched out the headers…she ran into a bit of trouble with that. The feeder on the combine had to go to such a steep angle to hook the header, that there was no lip on it to pick it up…every time Marilyn tried to lift it, it just slipped off and back to the ground. She went over to the pickup to get a couple of blocks to try and get it just a bit higher…she was sure it wouldn’t take much. That didn’t work, so she thought blocking the pickup wheels would keep it from scooting ahead and allow her to reduce the angle…no luck there either…the pickup is meant to walk over obstacles like that. In the end, she is not sure how she managed to get it picked up…just held her tongue right, she figures…but finally it was on and hooked up just as Al got back
from the elevator. We were on the move again.Marilyn got right into combining in the canola and Al worked at the bins for a couple of loads before going back to the camper to shower and head to Yorkton for the hockey game… it was the Terriers home opener and he has season tickets. Marilyn stayed to combine…she will need Monday night off for a meeting in Yorkton.
It started to get really tough around 8:30pm so we all quit combining and went home for the night. There was lightning starting to light up the sky…kind of strange for this time of the year, although it is only September. There was rain to the east and south of us, but once again it missed us during the day, even though the clouds were threatening.
Tomorrow could be a different story…
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