August 15, 2016

View of the day-Meeting of the minds, waiting for the wheat to get fit...and the donuts to show up.

First thing on the agenda was to get the combines moved to the next field. It was still pretty damp...there had been a shower go through during the night, so there wasn't much to do but wait. Later on though, it turned out to be a gorgeous day for combining...hot and sunny, although it looked like someone was getting some nasty weather judging by the storm clouds that were getting fairly tall.

Marilyn went into Kipling to get a few groceries and electrical parts before running the Timbits (donut holes) from Tim Horton's out to the guys. After getting lunch ready, she headed back out to the field where they had just started combining.

It seemed the last few fields have had power poles that we have had to dance with, which totally eliminates the option of using auto steer around them. Fortunately, they were all left standing.

We got one quarter section done around 4pm...the JD combine had blown a belt, so it was just the red ones running. The next quarter was just across the road, so with the short move and the buggy man making sure the combines didn't have to stop, we were finished by 8:30pm.

Since there was still a bit of light left in the day, we moved to the last field of winter wheat, and it actually was the one we had to leave after the big rain last week, so it shouldn't take that long to lap up.

And that will be the end of the winter wheat...