August 31, 2016

View of the day-Lloyd Everett from Clay Centre, Kansas came for a visit today and rode around with Al.

We were out at the field earlier than usual, there were filters to blow out so the shop trailer was hooked up to get the job done. While Al worked on the filters, Marilyn got the windows cleaned, then broke out the drone for some lineup pictures.

Marilyn and Alexander had the drone doing some video of the lineup before getting the parade on the road to move to the next field. Marilyn then remembered the memory card for the drone was still in the computer back at the camper, so no video/pictures saved. Looks like another early morning coming up to get that picture.

Once we got to the next field and got fueled up, everyone got back to combining. Marilyn took some video now that she had gotten the memory card back in the drone. As you can see, the lineup didn't happen here...kind of reminds us of some of the Balcarres lineups.

Lloyd showed up at the field just before lunch and Marilyn gave him a ride out to the combine so he could jump in with Al to get caught up. He started on the harvest run when he was six years old, helping his dad and has been harvesting for 74 years. We have known him forever, it seems.

We had dinner in the field brought out from Farm Credit Corp. They brought out KFC for the crew and spent some time riding around in the combine and tractor. It's always a nice change when this happens, even though we don't all get to stop at the same time.

After Lloyd was finished with his visit with Al, Marilyn drove out to pick him up and got caught up as well. After he dropped off a couple of ProHarvest hats, he was on his way back to Garrison, ND to wait for the soybeans to get fit to combine.

Marilyn jumped in the combine with Al and it wasn't very long before the alarms were going off. A belt had shredded...the one that drives the tailings processor. Marilyn called to Windthorst and they had one, so she was off to pick it up, while Al stayed back at the combine. They had it ready for her and she found out that one of the other combines that were out in the field with us blew the same belt in the morning. We got it back on and were back at it in less that an hour.

We had a pretty strong wind today...that's why Marilyn decided not to fly the drone again. It was even stronger by the time we finished the field and came home. Fortunately we have trees to protect us where we are parked, but it's still howling. If it keeps up there will be an early start tomorrow.

But first we have a long move...