June 25, 2013

View of the day-Someone ended up with a thunderstorm to the SE of us. Pictures just can't do these massive clouds justice.

Al went out early to grab some breakfast for the road, while Marilyn made lunches, then it was go time.  We started out to the bins to get the shop trailer and take it out to the field...Marilyn needed her grease gun and possibly the compressor to blow the rads out.

Al took last nights load into the elevator and Marilyn fought the strong wind again, trying to get the mess off the windows from last nights weather. Al only had 5 miles to drive to the elevator, so he was back in plenty of time to run the cart, besides, Marilyn was just getting started on the three acres left from last night.

The wind was wreaking havoc with the air screen sweeper again.  Marilyn had to stop every 75 ft or so to turn around and let the wind clean it off.  She decided when she crossed the road to the other half of the field, she would cut it N-S instead of the E-W direction so she would always have the wind keeping it clean. That worked like a charm.

We got that field finished...it went 50 bu/ac, which was nice.  Kevin informed us that it was their best field and it would only go down hill from there.  We got moved to the next field and Marilyn got started on that one...Kevin was right, the yield was half of the first field.

Al kept busy hauling and walking to the tractor and cart to move them closer to the combine.  There were water ways that prevented him from using the Dodge to get to the tractor, so he spent the afternoon strolling in the 102ºF(38.8ºC) heat...not a nice day, although the wind finally died down at the end of the day.

Marilyn had an issue on the second round of the field when the knife stopped on the header and the reverser wouldn't work to move the knife, either.  After backing up the combine to get on flat ground, she could see what the problem was...the PTO shaft collar hadn't been snapped back and it worked its way off the feederhouse shaft and fell of the combine. Al came out to the combine and between the two of us, we got it back together and Marilyn was back in business.

We combined until dark, then shut it down for the night.  Back in town, Al went for fuel again...the combine holds much more than the 100 gallons that the slip tank holds.

More of the same tomorrow...