Yesterday was a "do nothing" day, so there wasn't anything much to report. We pretty much took it easy in the camper.
Today, we got the straight header cleaned up and loaded on the high speed transport trailer. At this point in our harvest, it looks like we are done straight cutting...we only have canola left. We also did a bit of work on the switch for the General's electric roll tarp.
We took the switch off...it seemed to be the issue. Al was having trouble with it when he would try to close the tarp...moving the switch cables would sometimes activate it and sometimes not. The cables all looked good, so we had it narrowed down to the switch. We drove into Kipling to see if we could find a new one.
We went to a couple places, with no luck, then drove 10 miles down the road to the Case dealer at Windthorst to see if they had such a thing. No luck there either, so we went back to the yard, got the electrical contact cleaner out and put it back on the cables in the truck. Al would have to continue doing the same thing to close it...the cleaning didn't help.
We got the word that the canola was going to be good enough to start on, so we got the pickup header on the combine. Al noticed that one of the big springs on the pickup head had broken, so we needed to get a new one, although it could be used without it for the time being. Marilyn called Windthorst and this time they had the part we needed, so while Al drove the combine to the field south of Kipling, Marilyn drove back to Windthorst to get the part.
Al had started combining by the time Marilyn got out to the field. After making a couple rounds with Al, the rest of the trucks and combine had shown up, so he went back to his trucking job, while Marilyn continued picking up swaths. It was slow going, but we managed to get almost 40 acres done before the dew started settling on the pickup belts on the header.
Tomorrow, we go full tilt...
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