August 21, 2015

View of the day-Big Jen hauling to the bright lights of Langbank to unload in the Parrish & Heimbecker elevator.

Lots of dew this morning so we couldn't get going as early as we have been the last couple days. This gave us time to do some extra servicing, since we had brought the shop trailer out with us...not sure how this parking arrangement was decided on. The filters and rads got blown out and once the greasing and windows were done, it was time to crank up.

It was a lot slower going today, the grain started out at the top end of 16% moisture, but the elevator was taking it, so we all just shut up and drove. One machine was having a bit of an issue with a jamming knife, which was frustrating for the driver, but they had a new knife coming Monday, so they just had to work with it. The moisture came down during the day, but with no sun or heat, the straw stayed tough.

We had moved across the road and did a quarter section, then moved back to finish the piece we had gotten rained out on last night. After that we moved over to another quarter and worked on that until around 9pm when the moisture shot up again and everyone was back to a crawl.

Big chance of rain tonight, but Al claims it won't hit us...