Up early and ready for the last day of moving. We were a three person crew today as we enlisted the help of nephew, Gordie, and his pickup truck. We needed him to pull the pickup head so we could get all three loads back at once.
We got to Kenmare and Al jumped in with Gordie to go out to the farm and hook up the pickup head trailer. Slight problem...a train stopped on the tracks and it was blocking the only road to the farm. Marilyn had gone with the Dodge to get the General started and aired up before hooking up the straight head...her load for the trip to Carlyle. While waiting for the guys to come back, she grabbed a quick snack, then went across to the Ace Hardware to see if she could find the fixings to build a 50 amp extension cord for the camper. They couldn't help, but they sent her out of town to a specialty electric place...no cord, but she did get an outdoor outlet, so that was one part looked after.
Al and Gordie were still waiting at the crossing and with patience wearing thin, they decided to come back to grab a snack and kill some time...hopefully the train would be moved by the time they got back out there...and it had. They got the header back to the parking lot and we were ready to forge on.
We got out to the pasture where we were parking everything, got the combine unloaded, then went in to town to get Gordie's pickup fueled up before stopping for lunch. Just as we were heading for the A&W, we met a van from a local electric company, so we stopped to ask him if we could get a 50 amp extension cord made up. He sent us to see his son back at the shop, who told us no problem, he could get one of the guys to do it right away. All we had to do was decide how long we wanted it...Marilyn thought 60 ft was long enough and Al didn't, he figured it should be longer. Marilyn said she could move the trailer closer to the house if it was too short, but went ahead and got a 70 ft one made up.
Back at the combine, we were getting it serviced and fueled, when one of the farmers we had worked for in the past asked us if we could do the last 30 acres of canola that he had left because he had smouldering fire issues with his 2388 Case combine. Al got the go ahead from Kim, so Marilyn moved the combine out to the field and Al started combining.
Marilyn picked up the extension cord and went back to the farm. By this time, Marg was home from work and between the two of them, the new outlet was wired in and both air conditioners in the camper were cooling the joint down. Al was thrilled.
Next job they had to do was to try and find out where the air leak was on Kim's grain truck. It was sitting loaded, at the far end of the field and there was a major air leak in one of the lines to the brake pot, so back to the shop trailer to get some Rescue Tape. The hope was to wrap it with this silicon tape and hope it would work to get the truck into the yard...it worked like a dream, so Marilyn was able to drive it to the bin site so it could get dumped.
Today's humidex was every bit as bad as Oklahoma...nasty to work in...
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