August 16, 2015

View of the day-Both of us working on the knife in the header...one bundled up and one in short sleeves.

Wow. Talk about a change in the weather. When the front went through the temperature dropped and the wind came up. We almost had to turn the fireplace on in the camper! Still take the cold over the heat and humidity.

Game plan for the day was to get the header on the combine, check out the hopper jamming, then change out the sections on the header knife. We got item one done, then started in on the second one.

We tried to examine the schematics on the CaseIH parts site, to see how the grain tank cover was put together. The picture looked pretty detailed until you zoomed it in, then the quality was so poor you couldn't tell if you were looking at a bolt or a dotted line that pointed to a reference number that was impossible to decipher. We tried to get the areas lubed up as best we could, then left the juice to soak in as we went on to the last job for the day.

We though we only had a few knife sections to change, but as it turned out, there were quite a few...15 to be exact. Some of them didn't look to bad, but we could see there were cracks that were just waiting to let go, so while we were in the business of changing sections, we did all the rough ones.

After we got that finished, we headed out for Yorkton. There wasn't going to be any combining until Tuesday, so we figured we might as well go get the General and bring her down. We stopped in Whitewood for a pizza, then rolled north to home.

Got some "still need" items packed and ready for the morning...