Al went out early to service and unload the truck. Bob had been out to set the auger up at the first bin in the lineup, so it was good to go. Marilyn was supposed to be out at the field around 11am, but after Al tried to cut a bit, he called back and changed it to noon.
Marilyn took the opportunity to run down to Fort Qu'Appelle to refill one of the water jugs at the grocery store and get fuel in the pickup. She got half the job done, realizing as she was 10 miles back to the field, that she had forgotten to fuel up. Oh well, the alarm wasn't going off, so we should be good for a few more miles.
Marilyn rode along while Al combined the General full, and it was a good thing she was along. During the first six or so rounds, the feeder would plug and she had to jump out to do the pulling. Good exercise, but it did cut into productivity Combining went really well during the sunny heat...if you can call 60ยบ "heat"...of the afternoon. No plugging and it was cutting really nice...if only it could stay like that. We could really notice the difference when the sun went down.
Al got the General emptied out, then after getting the south patch done, we had to move to the north end of the field. By this time the temperature had dropped quite a bit and it was getting tough, even though we were cutting around any of the raggy downed flax.
Al took over combining and Marilyn went back to the camper to see if she could still get any water from the hose to fill the holding tank in the camper. Nope...just a trickle. Hopefully it will thaw out in the morning before she has to go to the field and she can fill it then. But tonight the showers will be quick to conserve what we have.
Al tried to continue combining, but it had gotten really tough and after cleaning out a couple plugs of the feederhouse, he quit for the night.
A little wind would sure help the cause...
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