We were up early to get some work done on the pickup head before we would be able to get going on the barley. First thing, though, was that we had to clean up the last 15 acres of straight cut wheat for Phillip.
While Al and Kim worked on torching the old bearing off the back roller of the pickup head, Marilyn went over and cleaned up as much as she dared on the wheat. She made a point of staying well away from the sloughs and only had to leave an acre or two that were just to chancy to get to. Once that was done, she drove back to the yard.
While Al blew out the air filters, Marilyn made lunch in the camper, then we went out to the barley field to get started. Kim was already going on the swaths, but he had spent the first part of the day waiting on the service man from the Moosomin CaseIH dealer to come out to do some work on one of the pressure sensors that had been setting off the alarms. He finally called to find out the guy hadn't left yet but "was going to try and get out in the next couple of hours"...Kim wondered what had happened to yesterday's promise to "be out there first thing in the morning".
He finally showed up and after a couple of hours of repair and testing, he was up and running again. We worked until dark and the semi was filled, then drove the rigs back to the yard which was just across the field.
Al had a lovely day hauling barley...a grain he hates because of the itchiness.
Hopefully, it only lasts one more day...
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