Big wind meant another early start to the day to finish off the last of the spring wheat. Everyone moved back to the yard around 2 pm to service and change headers from straight cut to pickup, then headed south to Kennedy to start picking up canola swaths.
We parked the straight head out in the field by the yard, then hooked up the shop trailer to take out and blow off the chaff and straw that had collected. At this point, we are done with it for the season...although, you never know.
Al started combining with the rest of the crew and Marilyn got the straight header all cleaned off, before bringing the shop trailer out to the field for radiator blowing tomorrow. Picking up swaths going east was quite a task with the wind blowing the dust and chaff to the front of the combine.
We had the header jam once and when Marilyn went out to pull out the crop to see what was in there, she got quite a surprise. there was a 6 ft half burned log that was about 8 inches across laying just under the auger in the header. She was able to pull it out and wrestle it to the ground...no camera handy for that performance. We ended up with a couple broken disappearing fingers, but were able to continue on.
The wind never slowed down after sunset, actually, it seemed like it had gotten stronger by the time we shut down just after 9 pm.
Lots more canola coming up...
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