October 15, 2014

View of the day-Getting the last of the beans dumped in the bin means Kim and Marg's harvest is done.

We got out to the field and started combining just after 10am and with Kim working on one "island" and Marilyn on the other, we were finished in an hour and on our way back to the yard.

Marilyn started blowing off the header and we got it loaded on the high speed transport trailer. After getting the rotor compartment blown out, we pulled the two concaves we had taken the wires out of.  

Since there were no more beans on the horizon, we had to replace the wires we had pulled, fortunately Marilyn had numbered them in the order they came out...the hope was that they would go back "home" easier. Al would hold them with the vice grips and pound the grips with the hammer, 10 inches at a time...for 28 wires. 

It actually only took us 45 minutes to get all the wires back in. After getting the concaves back in the combine, we hooked the header trailer up and headed north.

We had gotten a call a while back from a former farmer we had harvested for who was looking for some help around the Saltcoats/Bredenbury area. This is about 30 miles SE of our place at Yorkton, so the move will get us closer to home. First we had to find the field.

After a few texts and a phone call, we managed to find the bin site and a spot in the field to leave the straight header. There is straight wheat and some canola to pick up, so both headers will be needed.

We went back to Carlyle after grabbing a snack in Esterhazy. Tomorrow we have more moving in store...Al is taking the General back to Kipling to get the combine trailer and take it back to the farm to park it for the winter. 

Marilyn is going to be the pilot vehicle for the Kardynal Transport truck that is coming down to take the combine up to Saltcoats. We decided not to take the duals off and our trailer won't handle the load...Al is leery about hauling the extra wide load on it.

A slight chance of rain tomorrow, so it should be interesting...