The first entry for the season is always the toughest...lots of ground to cover. This is mostly due to the procrastination during the off season and the multitude of "irons in the fire".
We started combining yesterday, actually, cutting straight winter wheat. We are always anxious on the first day, since we never know how the uptime repairs are going to hold up...or if they got done. It was a day of stopping to check things over...everything seemed to be in order and Al even survived the autosteer refresher course.Today we were rushing to beat the rain that was forecast. We were in a severe weather area for most of the day, but fortunately it went all around us and except for a few sprinkles, it didn't hold us up. We had switched over to the pickup head to do the barley and it was working great with the new pickup teeth Al had installed a few months back. We did lose the autosteer for some reason and even after a few calls to the pros, still ended the day doing it manually.
So the blog ice has been broken. More to come tomorrow...honest...
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