June 28, 2012

View of the day-Al giving the Freightliner a much needed swish under the hood.

We got a late start with our 'to-do' list...no big rush to get things done in the cool of the day.  Al got the everything from the Freightliner box unloaded, then brought it over to the 'shop' to get cleaned up.


Marilyn's first job of the day was to get the South Dakota harvesting stickers off the windshields of both big trucks.  For some reason, on the General, we kept the collection going and had the last 10 years worth, which a ND DOT officer told us had better not be there the next time we passed through his state.  The Freight looked the same with the exception of the addition of a 1994 harvest sticker.  Sentimental reasons...the first year on the harvest for the Big Shaker.

They had those stickers figured out, because they peeled off without hardly any residue left behind.  Once the windows were clean, Al got to take the pressure washer to the sludge that tends to cover most Detroit diesel engines, then clean off all the mud and oil on the rest of the frame.


Marilyn gave up on waiting for the CaseIH guys to get her the cables to hook her hopper camera up to the new monitor in the combine, and wired in the old monitor, just so she could keep track of how full the hopper was getting.  Once that was done she got a rear view mirror screwed into the pillar in the cab, to keep an eye on how the grain looks in the hopper through the back window.

Next on the list was getting the header off the high transport trailer and set up with to take out to the field...when the crop is ready to go.

We hardly had any wind today and even though the temps were under 90º, it was really sticky and the flies were hungry, which means something is coming up.  The best place to be after all that work, was back in the air conditioned camper...and that is just where we went.


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