Perhaps the old age comment from yesterday should have been for Marilyn, since she got the blog done and was sure she hit the 'publish' button...apparently not.
Today was cleaning and loading day. We had a good wind to keep the chaff away as we blew everything off and the temperature was a lot lower than any of the other loading days we have had this season.
First we had to go and get the Freightliner from its parking spot, then take it out to the farm to get it set to load the tractor and cart. Once it was in place, Marilyn started blowing off the header while Al worked on getting the grain cart cleaned out with the pressure washer. The water supply had really low pressure, so we didn't use the heater, but it didn't matter much because the water was so nice that it didn't leave any spotting and it did a great job of taking the black canola dust off the header and combine.
We got the header loaded onto the high transport trailer and Marilyn took the pressure washer to it. With that ready to go, we got the tractor and cart loaded, chained down and hooked up to the Freight...load two ready to go. Before Marilyn started washing the combine, we decided to go in to Lincoln for lunch.
We had our burgers, then fueled up the Dodge and filled one of the propane tanks for the camper before going back to finish loading. Back at the yard, Marilyn started washing the combine and pretty much went through two tanks of fuel doing it...but it was finally done. Now to get loaded.
While Marilyn was washing the combine, Al got the shop trailer hooked up to the combine trailer and had everything lined up for Marilyn to load the combine. After we got that done, we chained it down, got the backup camera hooked up and called it a wrap at 7pm.
Load one rolls tomorrow...
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