August 18, 2016

View of the day-A different view unloading this morning.

Well, it really did only rain a tenth out at the combines, but we moved to another field NE that hardly had a sprinkle. We were out at the combine by 9:30am, serviced and ready to move before 10. Once all the combines and trucks had been shifted to the new field, we started combining, but it was slow going.

The yellow one was down for about 4 hours with a severe case of indigestion. It was the only machine dropping straw for baling and the driver made a sudden stop and that was all it took. With everyone having a job to do, he was left on his own to get the guts cleaned out of the straw. It was still pretty chewy, so it was no easy task.

The wind was huffing pretty good all day, so it did dry the straw out, but we still had issues with the lodged barley. The roots were so shallow on the plants that once the header pushed on the downed stalks, the uprooted and started pushing until there was a big wad of straw to go through...and it always stopped at the feeder drum on the header. Marilyn got lots of exercise going out and pulling straw...and it got worse as the sun went down.

The chow wagon came out with supper for everyone, so we got to grab a quick bite and a gab before finishing up the half section we were on. We moved a few miles further east and started in on another half section.

It got progressively worse as the sun disappeared and by 9pm we called it quits...all of us. The mosquitoes were getting bad enough that we didn't stop for the usual gabfest that happens outside the machines at the end of the night...we just hit the road.

Al has errands to run in Yorkton tomorrow, so as soon as we got back to the camper, he grabbed a few things and headed up there for the night.

Marilyn gets to start up tomorrow...