We had rain during the night, which worked out well for us. We needed to fix the straw chopper drive, which meant disassembling it to find out exactly what parts we needed.
Al was pleasantly surprised at how "relatively" easy it was to get everything apart. After phoning around to see where we could get the parts needed, we were off to Yorkton to pick them up.
With the parts in hand, we needed to press the old bearings out to use in the new pulley. We don't have that type of tools, so we went out to see Al's favorite repairman, Danny. It took some time, but we got everything apart and back together without incident and were back on our way home by 6pm.
Apparently it didn't rain enough to hold up the combining, as they were all running when we got back to the field. But first we had to reassemble the parts we had brought back. This turned out to be the hard part.
We fought with getting everything back on the shaft until it was too dark and the mosquitoes were too hungry.
Best to sleep on it and look at it in the early morning light...
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