September 2, 2013

View of the day-Pump jacks everywhere, nice to cut around. We were working across the road from Kim who was picking up barley swaths and Dudey was hauling it away with the tandem.

Sun was shining and the wind was starting to blow, it was looking to be a great day for combining. Al went out and got the combine serviced, then we went into town for breakfast, before going out to crank it up.

It was a bit tough to start, but as stated yesterday, Phillip will be drying it, so we forged on. The day was going pretty good, the yield was down on this field, going around 25 bu/ac due to the hail, so that meant the cart and truck driver had it pretty easy.

Around about 15 acres left, Marilyn was working around a couple of sloughs on the east end of the field and had already gone around a couple of them, when all of a sudden the wheel dropped and she wasn't going anywhere. 

The hopper was about a third full, so Al came over and was able to get under the auger to dump the combine and peruse the situation. Time to call in the big guns.

While Marilyn worked on getting the tow rope of the side step by the toolbox...no easy task when it was pretty much sitting on the ground on that side...Al went with Phillip to get Kim and his 9400 JD 4WD tractor.  By the time the tractor showed up, we had the rope straightened out to hook up to the tractor and it only took one pull and the combine was out. It was a good thing only one tire was down.

After getting the rope wrapped back up, Marilyn cut back to the approach at the other end of the field and called it a night...let that 15 acres sit until tomorrow.


Even with getting stuck, it was a 104 acre day...