July 19, 2012

View of the day-Opened the blinds this morning in the camper, looked out the window and got a great surprise...we didn't have to hunt him down this time.


So much for forecasts.  Al got up this morning, looked out the window and saw dark clouds.  He then went online and saw two red patches across the river heading our way...that screwed up the plans of being out to do a test by noon.

The first batch of clouds crossed over and dropped some rain...more than a sprinkle, but less than 0.10".  The second one came by and did the same thing, the total never reached 0.10", but looking at the radar, it looked worse at the combine.


We had lunch in the camper, then Al decided to go out and do a test, just for the hell of it.  It tested 12.7%, so he brought a sample in to the elevator, stopped by to pick up Marilyn, then went back to the field to start cutting.

The field was 1/4 mile by 1 mile long, so we had to cut it half to make shuttling to the trucks a short trip.  Lauren had his two semis out at the field and Al ran our cart, picking up Marilyn on every round, since she couldn't make it the full round without the cart. It was averaging over 80 bu/ac!

Al noticed there were a lot of crews heading north on the highway and across the way was a JD with a stripper head making pretty good time and making lots of dust. Marilyn got the first chunk finished then opened up the other half, while Al and Lauren got the semi and grain cart moved over to the other end of the field, then we called it a night. Considering our short day of combining heavy wheat, 70 acres was not bad. 


Now we can get into the swing of things...