We had
high hopes of getting done early today, but we might have known nothing ever
goes as planned. We both had to leave at
the same time, but were cranked up and ready to cut before 10:30am. Al had a load to take in to Carmen, while
Marilyn started on a load for seed wheat. It was another hot, windy day…really
windy…so windy that the straw piled up so thick on the outside of the radiator
cover, that it stopped the sweeper arm that is supposed to keep it clear. Then the alarms started, but once Al brought
the General over and we hooked the air hose up to it and blew out the rad on
the combine…we were back on track.
There
seemed to be an issue with the knife on the header, it was really slow to
engage and the feeder would stop randomly…or so Marilyn thought. When Al got
back out to the field with the tractor and cart, he checked things over…the
belt was tight and everything else seemed in order. Time to call in the
pros. We were only 15 miles from
Fairview, where the support van was, so the guys were out in under 30 minutes.
Now that’s service!
The guys
looked things over, then hooked up some hoses to see what the pressure was like
to the header. Marilyn started the
combine and got the feeder running, it ran for a bit, then stalled out and
after checking a bit more, we discovered a bearing had gone out of the tightener
pulley and it was just sitting on the belt.
One of the MacDon guys had worked with CaseIH for several years, so he
was a great help. We didn’t need the MacDon support, we needed the ProHarvest
support.
The
MacDon guys left and so did we, after getting the arm off that the pulley
needed to be pressed on to. We drove
into Fairview and the shop told us it would take about an hour to get the part
pressed in, since they were so busy. We
had time to kill, so we went to Sonic for a malt…what’s new?
After
getting the part and heading back to the field, we managed to remember how to
get it back together and Marilyn was up and running again…we only lost three
hours. No chance to get everything moved
back today…but we were still able to get done before the sun went down.
While
Marilyn was finishing up the last part of the field, she saw this desk sitting
in the pasture and thought…now there’s an office with a view!
After
getting the header loaded on to the high speed transport trailer, Marilyn
started back for the camper with it and Al took the General in to unload the
last load of Oklahoma wheat this year.
Marilyn got back to the camper, got the header cleaned off, and waited
for Al to get back before finishing up some bookwork.
And yet
another beautiful Oklahoma sunset…
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