August 10, 2017

View of the day-It was a beautiful day at the campground after all the rain yesterday.

Even though it didn't rain during our combining the other night, it made up for it by raining all night and half the next day. One of those misty, soaker kind of rains, which left us with 1/2". We wouldn't know for sure on the combine since the rain gauge has a large crack in it and the only thing it is holding is spider webs.

We spent today trying to figure out what was wrong with the autosteer on the combine. Several calls to the local dealerships came up with nothing, except of course we would likely have to purchase a new controller for $6500. No thanks.

We did call on our old friend, Ray, with CaseIH ProHarvest, who had been a lifesaver on more than one occasion. He was able to walk us through several things to try to narrow down the issue. 

One suggestion was to use a multi-tester to check voltage. Now, we did have one of those units in the shop trailer and it was in decent shape, since neither of us really knew how to work it. We had removed the controller to take it over to our regular farmer, hoping we could switch it out with the one on his 9230 combine. If it worked in there, then we wouldn't have to spend the big bucks...we could only hope. And it worked. Cross that off the list.

Alex, the farmer, gave us his multi-tester to use, which included instructions on how to use it. We discovered it was getting power, so now it was another call back to Ray, who narrowed it down to a software issue...which he couldn't help with.

A call to the dealer and we were on the waiting list...maybe tomorrow someone would get out to do the upload. Good thing we weren't combining.

We only have one more day left for this farmer, then we move over to our regular stop. With the extra time we had, we figured we might as well move the camper over to its regular spot under the trees and just drive the 15 miles. Not like that hasn't been done a time or two.

The drone might be coming out of mothballs for some action tomorrow...