Today was fixing day. We went out to the combine with a list for the day. Blow out the air filters, take a couple of links out of the clean grain elevator chain, replace all the burnt out bulbs...and they were burnt, not just a fuse as we had hoped, and the biggie was the chopper blades.
Al worked on the elevator chain while Marilyn looked after the filters, then we both went to work on the chopper. Marilyn had to crawl inside and work in the narrow space under the blades to get them out. We took them to the shop trailer to get them back into shape, rather that try to maneuver inside the combine. We pretty much had to take them all out to repair them, but it was mostly loose bolts, which was an easy fix.
We had a couple of broken blades, so we drove over to Windthorst to pick up a couple replacements. Once we had them in hand and got back to the combine, it didnt' take long to get everything back into shipshape.
There was no combining going on anywhere, but it was another great drying day. There was 1.10" of rain in the gauge on the combine and the ground was still pretty wet where we were working on it. Another day of this kind of weather will do wonders to dry it up and maybe we can get moving again.
And there is no rain in the forecast for a few days...
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