September 21, 2014

View of the day-Everyone is making dust...for the better part of the day.

We were out at the field, ready to go by 10am, but had to kill an hour before we could start. Once we got going, there was no stopping...sort of.

We were still having issues with the feeder chain jumping a cog. Occasionally, it would somehow get back where it belonged, but we had to get the wrenches out a couple of times. 

By the time we had moved over to the last field, it was getting dark and Marilyn didn't notice the load of dirt that had collected in the feederhouse, so there was a pile of dirt digging to do before she could get back to work. It could have been way worse.

One of the combines with the tracks had gotten stuck a while back and when they pulled it out, it was stuck so deep that the whole track system flipped around on one side and took out one of the big shields. Today, however, he was being cautious, but it didn't matter as he found a sinkhole, or underground spring...he dropped down on one side.

They tried several things to get it out but because it was on the other side and the auger was down so low they had to bring in a transfer auger to empty the hopper. This time the big quadtrac was not going to do the job...and there he sits until morning. Excuse the poor quality picture...Marilyn didn't want to get out of the cab and be a "looky-loo".

On the up side, we did finally get a 100 acre day...