September 6, 2017

View of the day-Dusty conditions in the canola, as one field gets lapped up and across the road, some flax is getting swathed.

Yesterday was more of the same...picking up swaths. This year has been unbelievable...we can start at 9am and run until 11pm. Day after day, after day. A lot of acres are getting covered with five machines getting 130 to 150 acres a day.

We had a couple of slight hiccups yesterday. First, Al had picked up some barbed wire again and it wrapped around the front of the rotor. He managed to get a bog chunk of it out, then Marilyn wrangled out the last stubborn pieces.  

At the end of the day a bearing went out on the re-thrasher unit. We got it apart relatively easy, then Al went into Windthorst this morning to get parts. We were hoping it wouldn't be like the last repair...come apart easy and a nightmare to put back together. Fortunately it wasn't, and it went back together in a snap.

More of the same tomorrow...combining, that is...