July 28, 2012

View of the day-Al puts the last of the fuel in the combine before we leave the field.


We had an excellent day of combining...beautiful weather and a good wind played a big part of it. AIS to leave for the field was 10:30am, but Marilyn was already combining by that time.  It was a long day, but a productive one...we finally broke 100 acres today by finishing with 125.  It's been quite a while since we had one of those days.


We had some green wheat issues, but the farmer had air to his bins, if needed, so he told us to carry on...and we did.  We finished the green patched field, then moved right next to it to start on the next field and the moisture on this one was 10%, so we are pretty sure it should offset the wet stuff.  And it was four times the size of the first field, so for sure it would blend in.


Marilyn hardly had time to take a break with Al picking up on the go all the time...that really helps with productivity when you don't have to stop or run across the field to dump...especially with another 65 bu/ac yield.

We quit just after sundown and took a two track trail back to the highway...only a mile, but we hadn't gone that way before, so we didn't know what to expect.  We could see lights flashing on the highway and as we came up to the cause of them, we could only feel their pain...the harvest crew's bunkhouse had a sore foot and they were trying to get it changed...in the dark...with tons of traffic. No DOT, though, so that was good for them.


Looks like tomorrow is going to be another good day of harvesting...