View of the day-Goodbye straight header, into the canola today.Early morning of getting the combine set up to pick canola. We got the headers swapped out, then changed settings, fueled up and Al hit the field.
Marilyn got lunch rounded up and went out to the field to ride around and see how the canola was working...after all we were in a new machine. Al was quite pleased with the capacity of the feederhouse...a lot less plugging. The swaths were pretty big and there were a lot of "lumps" in them which gave the auger in the header a workout.
Marilyn went back to the camper for a while...until she got the call from Al that the chain on the pickup auger had broken. She grabbed the box of chain that was in the shop trailer along with a few tools and headed out to the field.
Al had everything loosened off, ready for the new chain, but when we looked in the box it appeared that some of the chain had already been used and we were 6 links short of a whole new chain. Not to worry. We took those 6 off the old chain, found some connector links and were back in business.
We finished the section of canola around 10pm with lightning flashing around us...but never over us...a bonus.
Let's hope it lasts through the night...
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