September 20, 2015

View of the day-More beaver huts...actually they were more like beaver "lodges".

Al was back from Yorkton this morning in time to service the combine and start picking up canola just after 9am. Marilyn took over once the lunches were made, then it was business as usual.

We moved over to another full section of canola...lots of sloughs making it quite a bit less than the 640 acres it should have been...about 170 acres short. There were lots of twists and turns, but at least the other combines were in view, since all the bushes that had been in the sloughs had been pushed in and burnt.

Marilyn thought she could smell something burning, but figured it was probably the old trees smouldering...she had been duped on a few previous occasions by the smell. She got out and checked around the combine...no smoke that she could see. Even with the help of the buggy man, we couldn't find the source.

Al came out to the field with the pickup and after shutting the combine down, we were able to narrow it down to a couple of bearing on the rotor speed drive controller...or what was left of it. We drove the combine back to the yard and commenced to dismantle as much as we could before dark, then went back to the camper to start looking for part numbers.

Early morning parts run...let's hope they have them in stock...