August 28, 2012

View of the day-Al driving the combine, as we meet Kim...see, he does get to drive once in a while. He needed the air conditioning after the hot day we had today.

Today started out pretty much like the last couple of days, servicing and getting started combining by 11am...well, Al started combining, at least.  Marilyn got lunches made and then ran into town to get some new water filters for the camper. 

Back at the field, Marilyn took over combining from Al and we finished the first field, moved to the second quarter and finished that one, then drove back to the yard to fuel the combine up.  We were going to move over to Bob's canola, but he decided he better do a test before having us all jump in and start combining...good thing, it was still a bit high in the green count department.

Kim took his combine about 8 miles north east to see how his green count was. Bingo. We were good to go, so Marilyn started driving the combine up to the field and Al followed in the General. 

This field had more than a few swaths that had been blown around by the wind...this is what they were supposed to look like going into the feederhouse.  The outside rounds were just spread apart, but the east-west swaths were rolled up into those hoagies again.  After picking up the first headland swath, Al jumped into the combine and took over driving...now it was his turn to work those piles of canola through the combine.  

He did a fine job, with no casualties or plugging...well, maybe a couple of times in the feederhouse...but no rotor plugging.  As you can see, that is quite a wad that has to get through the combine.

The wind died down just at sunset, but the temperature was still well above normal for Saskatchewan...we're not complaining...it was a gorgeous evening. 

More of the same tomorrow...