August 22, 2017

View of the day-Servicing, fueling and fixing this morning.

We got to sleep in a bit, since we were done with the barley. We drove over to the farm to fuel/DEF up then put the header in transport to move back to home base.

We had water issues in the camper. The hot water was smelling like rotten eggs, but we thought we had solved the problem when we put the new anode rod in the water heater. After doing a little research, Marilyn decided we had to sanitize the system...but we didn't have any bleach to do it, so it got added to the shopping list for the day.

We took a road trip up to Stockholm to visit with a friend who had just upgraded from CaseIH 2388's to 7088's. Al helped him tweak the settings for picking up wheat, then Marilyn got in and set up the monitors. Actually, he wanted nothing to do with the monitors, so she set up the main run screen, shut off any information only beeps, so he could just drive it like the old ones. 

After spending a couple hours there, we went into Esterhazy to get a few groceries and the items for the water sanitizing, then headed back to the camper.

Marilyn got the water business going, while Al went and blew out the rads and filters at the shop. It took a while to get the bleach through the system, but after letting it "cook", draining and refilling, the rotten egg smell was gone. Replaced by a chlorine smell, but that was preferable to the alternative.

Al has decided to try and keep the Pull-Type Combine heritage alive, by collecting and displaying real combines on our land along highway 16 near Rokeby, just east of Yorkton. 

He had mentioned it to one of his toy customers at the threshermans show a few weeks ago...told him what his limit was...and tonight he called Al to let him know he got three for him at the auction in Yorkton over the weekend. 

One International 914 and two John Deeres *spit*, a 6601 and a 7721.

Now he just needs to figure out how he will display them...