September 26, 2012

View of the day-Another day with no wind.  The dust just hung in the air and with all the combines and trucks running in the fields and down the roads, it was pretty tough to see.

Another day with more of the same.  Al went out and unloaded the trucks, serviced and started combining.  Marilyn took a run into Fort Qu'Appelle to get a few groceries to last for lunches the next couple of days.  She decided to grab some burgers from Dairy Queen for today's lunch around 10:30am before going out to the field...they don't open until 11am, and she wasn't going to wait.  That milkshake would have sure tasted good, though.

Back at the field, she took over combining from Al and he went back to his trucking job.  The past week, the wind has been non-existent, which has made combining quite an adventure. At the end of the cut, when you turn around, you have to stop and wait to see where the standing wheat is...and it doesn't help that this wheat is really dusty to begin with.  As you can see from the picture, it would still be by the swath after Marilyn would get back from the one mile run to the other end of the field.  Who would have thought we would be wishing for some wind?

While Al was gone with one of his loads, Marilyn plugged the feeder of the header with some green volunteer canola that had grown in some of the low spots.  After cleaning it out and getting started again, she could hear some clattering when she started up the front end and after inspection she could see the connector link on one of the three feeder chains had disappeared.  She went back to the yard to bring back the shop trailer, which had a connector link and all the tools needed to fix the chain.  Al got back to the field the same time as Marilyn did with the shop, got the chain fixed and after an hour of down time, we were back in business.

Tomorrow the story is, if the train comes in to the elevator, they won't take any wheat because they will be loading train cars.  This means we will only have the trucks and cart to fill and will be done for the day.  There is only about 100 acres left to do...after the 134 acres we did today...so hopefully we will have enough room to keep us busy until it is done.

Unless we bring the Freightliner into service for the day...