September 2, 2012

View of the day-Big smoke to the east this afternoon and it burned for quite a while. Not started by any implements...so we heard.

We were out at the field picking up the oats swaths by 10:30am...there was no stopping us today.  Al kept busy hauling to the bins...the oats was going a lot better than the wheat, so he was getting back just in time as the combine was filling up.

We finished the first field of oats, which took some doing.  In order for the farmer to combine with his pull type combine, it had to be swathed round and round.  With the sloughs, this meant a lot of corners on every round and as the rounds got smaller, the corner angles got smaller and it was either pull out and turn around on every corner, or back up to make the corner...Marilyn was mighty dizzy by the time that field was done.

We moved over to the last 55 acres of oats and it was on this field that we saw the big smoke. Since there were no machines in the field, it appeared it must have gotten started from a cigarette or spark...complete speculation from the bystanders...maybe tomorrow we will have the rest of the story.

We got finished and while Al dumped the last load, Marilyn got the combine fueled up in the yard.  You can see the pull type combine on the right in the picture.  Once we were done with that, Al hooked up the straight header to the Dodge and we started on the road back to Carlyle.

Al is not looking forward to hauling barley tomorrow...