Plan "A" was to get the header moved down to the farmers yard on Saturday, but it had rained so we decided against that. Plan "B" was to go get the pickup head from Rogers over at Lipton...there hadn't been any rain to speak of in that direction, so we were good to go.
Sunday was Al's birthday, so Marilyn took him out for brunch, then we were off to Rogers. It did sprinkle a bit off and on, but no where near the mess they got down at Kipling...they were over an inch total for the two days. We got the header and took the scenic route back, since the roads are bad enough without the rough riding, pickup head trailer helping to throw us around. We made it back home and parked the trailer...it's destination will be Carlyle, but we won't need it there for a while.
On Tuesday, we figured we would attempt to get the straight header moved. Marilyn took the header to work in the morning, so we would be able to leave right after work for the 90 mile trip. It was only a short trip...relatively speaking...but just to make us feel like we had never taken the summer off, we started off the season with wheel issues. The bearing was on the brink of disintegrating on one of the rear trailer wheels. We managed to make it as far as White's Ag in Whitewood, just under the wire as they were closing up for the day. We had to leave the trailer overnight so they could fix it first thing in the morning. Just like old times.
The next day we booked off work early so we could finish the move and this time we were successful. After paying our tab we were on our way. We got to the yard and it was pretty wet, which was made worse by the fact that it was newly landscaped. We managed to get the header parked out of the way by one of the bins, had a visit with Bukes, the farmer, then started back home.
Al had decided he wanted the seat in the General covered and was going to take it to the local upholstery place. Marilyn has several sewing machines and lots of material, so she decided to do it herself...it was just a matter of getting the seat out. Simple, right? If only. The seat cushion was only bolted on, so that was no problem...the back, however, was a whole other ballgame. It refused to go without the whole mechanism.Marilyn started searching online to see if there was somewhere to get a new seat. There were lots of places and they would ship, but that meant a few days to get the seat. After work the next day, Marilyn decided to see what there was around Yorkton, checking out the obvious places, then stopped at Truck Proz, the local heavy truck repair shop. There, in the middle of the show room, was an air seat under a plastic protector...exactly what she was looking for! After inquiring if the seat had been a special order for someone...it wasn't...and getting the price...$200 less than anything online...out came the card to pay and a boxed up seat was in the back of the pickup and she was on her way home.
We got the old seat out, got the new one put in place...would you believe it...the holes lined up! A perfect fit. We did have to get a new fitting to get the air hose hooked up, but that was an easy enough fix. Boom. A new seat without any grief. If only the door latches could work the same way. Baby steps...baby steps.Next on the list was to get the tractor and cart moved down to Kipling. Just when we had everything arranged, we called down to see how things were going. They were now up to 5 inches of rain that had fallen! Bukes assured us it was fine to bring the tractor down and unload on the road, then it could get parked in the yard.
We had made arrangements to get Al's friend, Larry, who owns Kardynal Transport, to haul the rig, since we were now down to one truck without the Freightliner. Larry found an opening for us on Saturday, so Al took the tractor in to town Friday night and left it by the trailers to be loaded early Saturday morning...real early...5:30am early. We got there at the crack of dawn...which is coming later...and after getting it loaded and chained down, it was on it's way.More rain, but it's getting closer...
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