October 23, 2014

View of the day-Rock picking with the wrong implement, as you can see by the large rock on the bottom left. One of the disappearing fingers had a dirty hook to it, but didn't break as it was manufactured to.

We were out at the field and rolling before 10am again, until Marilyn picked up a rock as she was going around a slough. The disappearing finger is made so that if it gets broken, it snaps off inside the auger in the holder and the rest of it drops or goes through the combine. The pin that was holding this one had broken, but the finger stayed in and try as we might, we couldn't get it out of the holder. Al got the big rotor wrench out of the engine compartment and used it as a pry bar to try and straighten the finger, since it refused to budge. It worked.

Al watched as Marilyn started the combine to see how it was going to work when the feeder started. He heard something at the back of the combine and when he inspected, it was what was left of another finger that had run through the combine and shot out the back, just missing the tractor. But the bent one stayed in the auger.

We had another good day with just over 80 acres, which has been the norm for the last few days. It was warm, windy and cloudy...but there was a small break in the clouds to see the height of the solar eclipse that happened in the afternoon, just after we moved to the last quarter section of canola. 

We combined without issue until Al got another bin filled just after dark. We shut down, fueled the combine and called it a night.

Tomorrow, we finish the canola...